Boxing News magazine 12.10.2007 Download pdf

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AN agreement was this week
reached between the respective
promoters for CLINTON WOODS
and JULIO GONZALEZ, thus avoiding
purse bids.
So, as planned, Woods will
defend his IBF light-heavyweight
belt against the Mexican on the
Ricky Hatton-Jose Luis Castillo
bill in Las Vegas on June 23.
Woods defeated Gonzalez on
points in a tough 12-rounder when
they fought in Sheffield in
September 2005.

THE mystery man in the picture
on page 7 is Derry's CHARLIE
NASH, former British and European
lightweight champion of the 1970s
and '80s who in March 1980
made a thrilling if shortlived
WBC title challenge to Jim
Watt in Glasgow.
He floored Watt before being
bludgeoned in four rounds.

WBO heavyweight champ SHANNON
BRIGGS is training in a hyperbaric
oxygen chamber to overcome the
aspirated pneumonia problem that
caused the postponement of his
mandatory against SULTAN
IBRAGIMOV in March.
The match now goes ahead in
Atlantic City on June 2, not
Moscow as planned.
Briggs says he is already down
to the weight at which he fought
Sergei Liakhovich to win the belt
in November.

PLENTY of readers will recall 1980s
gritty Liverpool lightweight Robbie
Robinson, who beat future British
champs Najib Daho and Lloyd Christie,
also that remarkable ringer Lance
Williams, but fell just short of a title
shot himself.
Robbie made it to a final eliminator
only to lose to Tony Willis. A case of
the spirit was willing but the...
Anyway, the Scouser is n o y an
Aussie",-marjied to an Aussie girl and
doing well in the property market in
Sydney. He returned home last month
for only the second time since
emigrating in 1993.