Boxing WELTER-WEIGHT BOUT
Christchurch Fight On May 16 V The Canterbury Boxing Associa- e tion has announced that its next a professional bout will be on May n 16. This will be a welter-weight R contest between Young . Stewart. s< of Auckland, and Ulf Christensen, I of Wellington. The bout will be s> 10 three-minute rounds. t’ Last month when Christensen ° fought Johnny Cooper, of Aus- '* tralia, in Christchurch the fight 11 was stopped because of an acci- T dent, and the bout was awarded ’ to Cooper, who was ahead on points at the time. Cooper’s head injury is not as _ serious as was thought at the [ time, and he hopes that he will be r ■ fit again by the end of this month, f : He has notified the Canterbury [ Association that he will stay in a Christchurch for another three r
months, and that he is keen to fight again in ’’that time. The Canterbury Association will again match Cooper when he is ready to fight.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28265, 1 May 1957, Page 15
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