Boxing News magazine 3.3.2011 Download pdf

Boxing News Magazine 2011 Memorabilia

NATHAN CLEVERLY'S WBO lightheavyweight
title showdown with
JUERGEN BRAEHMER will go
ahead on May 21.
Chief support on the Frank
Warren-promoted bill could see
former amateur clubmates and
rivals JAMES DEGALE and GEORGE
GROVES square off in their highlyanticipated
grudge match.

ANDRE BERTO is expecting to
defend his WBC welterweight
title against VICTOR ORTIZ on
April 16. The venue has not been
decided, although being
considered are: Los Angeles,
Atlanta and Carson City, Nevada.
Tony Morgan, Berto's trainer,
said, "If I had my choice I would
go to Atlanta. I don't want Victor
to have the crowd input."

JUDGE LOU TABAT died on
Monday, February 21 of colon
cancer at the age of 87. His first
world championship assignment
came in February 1978 when he
awarded Leon Spinks a 145-140
tally over Muhammad Aii. He
went on to work at the Olympics
- his passion - as a judge at the
1984 Games and as a field of
play marshal at Atlanta in 1996.
He finished his career judging
pro bouts in Japan and Thailand
in 2002.

BEING asked to replicate Vitali
Klitschko is some compliment for
David Price. The 6ft 8ins Liverpudlian
is in Spain sparring Odlanier Solis,
ahead of the Cuban's 'world' title bid.
But back in Britain Price has been on
the receiving end of complaints that his
professional opposition has been too
soft. At the beginning of February
David dispatched a flabby Osborne
Machimana in three rounds.

Sometimes it is strength and power that
carries the day. Brandon Rios proved
that in lifting the WBA lightweight
title from Miguel Acosta, halting the
Venezuelan at 1-14 of the 10th round
at the Palms Casino Resort (Top Rank
promoted).
Acosta, weighing 9st 8 l/2lbs like
Rios, was so dominant in the early
rounds that at times it did not look
like the contest would ever enter
the later stages. But the man from
Oxnard, California, took everything the
champion threw, kept pressing the fight
and ultimately shifted the momentum in
his favour.