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TYSON: THE LOST LEGEND
Champion with a built-in self-destruct button
 
Woodhall's a champ in the making
 
Grant settles for points win
 
At 42, Larry Holmes is is suddenly a folk hero
 
McKinney top of the class
 
Crawford's home chance
 
GRANDFATHER Larry Holmes, 42, has good reason to smile after a remarkable points
victory over former WBO heavyweight champion Ray Mercer last weekend in Atlantic City, j
The former WBC and IBF champion was having only his sixth fight since launching his
comeback and could now be in line to face 43-year-old George Foreman. Ringside report:
pages 14-15.
 
NIGEL BENN hopes to increase the pressure on Chris Eubank by
carrying out an impressive job on Dan Sherry at the Alexandra
Palace in North London, on Wednesday (February 19).
Benn makes no secret of his intentions: a revenge summer match
with WBO super-middleweight champion Eubank. Judging from his
recent comments, Eubank is none too keen on the idea, but the fight
would draw huge money - and eventually that may be the deciding
factor.
 
MY OLD friends at the WBC went for Terry Norris as
their Fighter Of The Year, and Mike Tyson vs Razor
Ruddock II as Fight Of The Year. Buddy McGirt's win
over Simon Brown was Best Performance Of The Year
and Julio Cesar Chavez was Best Pound For Pound
Boxer, which seems the same thing as Best Fighter —
or perhaps they just ordered too many trophies.
The WBC has also proclaimed 1992 as the Year of
Muhammad Ali.MY OLD friends at the WBC went for Terry Norris as
their Fighter Of The Year, and Mike Tyson vs Razor
Ruddock II as Fight Of The Year. Buddy McGirt's win
over Simon Brown was Best Performance Of The Year
and Julio Cesar Chavez was Best Pound For Pound
Boxer, which seems the same thing as Best Fighter —
or perhaps they just ordered too many trophies.
The WBC has also proclaimed 1992 as the Year of
Muhammad Ali.
 
YOUNG England international Kelly Oliver edged
out reigning Midlands ABA light-heavyweight champion
Neil Simpson on a majority decision in the
Midlands North Zone finals.
After a very close opening round, 21-year-old
Simpson won the second, before Oliver rallied to
win the last. It could genuinely have gone either way,
 
THE COLD weather and road conditions were responsible
for a smaller attendance than usual at the February
meeting of the London Ex-Boxers' Association, but this did
not deter a stalwart contingent from Bournemouth EBA
making the trip, including chairman Peter Fay, secretary
Les Smith and former fighter Ken Wells.
 

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