Boxing News magazine 13.12.2002 Download pdf

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Simon latest
EARLY assessments of Harry Simon's condition
suggest the WBO middleweight champion will
remain in hospital for the next three months.
Simon was involved last month in a serious
head-on car collision in Namibia in which several
people were killed. He is in hospital in Cape Town
and only recently started to talk again, but has a
broken left arm and leg.
Simon, 30, could not say whether he thought
he would box again, plus the police are still
investigating the circumstances of the crash, in
which Harry was one of the drivers.

Bernard hopeful
BERNARD DUNNE, the Irish featherweight hope
who had to pull out of his last fight when his
brain scan picked up an "irregularity", has
supplied new scans to the New York State
Athletic Commission and is hopeful he will get
the green light to continue his budding career.
Dunne, who fights out of the Freddie Roach
gym in Los Angeles, is 2-0 (2) as a pro and just
22. He is back home in Dublin for Christmas.
His manager, Brian Peters, could have gone to
other commissions with the scans but picked
New York "because they're one of the biggest
and other commissions will listen to them."
Let's hope there is a happy ending.

Tapia the brave
JOHNNY TAPIA hasn't made any excuses about
his November points defeat by Marco Antonio
Barrera, but the wonderful Albuquerque battler
recently had an operation on a torn left bicep and
damaged shoulder.
This surely had to inhibit his display, though
the adrenalin was probably flowing through Tapia
so fast he didn't notice he had hurt himself.
Wife Teresa said Tapia had injured himself two
weeks before the fight and I recall Johnny saying
something about damaging his shoulder.
But, great professional that he is, Tapia didn't
want to take any credit from Barrera.

Ayala arrested
POLICE in San Antonio were looking for Tony
Ayala Jnr last weekend when an arrest
warrant was issued following allegations he
assaulted a 14-year-old girl in November.
An investigation is on-going and a district
judge has revoked the boxer's 10-year probation
even though nothing has yet been proved.
Ayala, supposed to be boxing Joe Garcia in
Miami on December 20 (Joel Casamayor-Yoni
Vargas bill), turned himself in to police.
Another boxer in trouble is Polish heavyweight
Andrew Golota, who hasn't boxed since walking
out against Mike Tyson more than two years ago.
An arrest warrant was issued for Golota in
Chicago when the boxer missed a second court
date. He is awaiting trial for impersonating a
police officer when stopped for a traffic offence.
Finally, former WBC heavyweight champion
Trevor Berbick is in jail awaiting deportation
from the USA to either Canada or Jamaica after
violating his parole.

Buchanan: I feel snubbed
DINBURGH legend Ken Buchanan
has slammed Scottish bosses after
they knocked back the former world
lightweight champion's application to be the
country's national coach without even granting
him an interview.
"I'm bitterly disappointed to be rejected,
especially without even the courtesy of an
interview," said Buchanan, a guest of honour
at the Eastern District Championships in
Newtongrange last month.
"I've had loads of experience at top level,
fighting in Moscow and many other countries
as an amateur, and working closely with some
of boxing's biggest names.
"I have great international contacts, so can't
believe the people who were responsible for this
decision didn't even give me the chance to offer
my ideas on coaching Scottish amateurs.
"It will be interesting to see who they come up
with for the job."