TO FIGHT IN JAPAN
Flyweight Contenders (N.Z P.A -Reuter—Copyright 1 TOKYO, January 12. H. Accavalla. of Argentina, and H. Ebiharar, of Japan, today signed to fight each other for the world flyweight boxing title in Tokyo on February 1. The secretary-general of the Japan Boxing Commission (Mr K. Kikuchi) said afterwards the fight would decide "once and for all who is the rightful world champion." Japan did not recognise the European Boxing Union's “socalled world flyweight fight between Salvatore Burruni and Walter McGowan in London next month." He said his commission would not agree to the winner meeting the winner of the Tokyo fight to settle the issue. Greek Fights Mexican (N.Z. Press Association* AUCKLAND The Aucklad-based Mexican middle-weight boxer, Roberto Pena, will fight the Greek champion, Dimitrios Mihael. at Wellington on February 23. Negotiations have been completed for the bout, which Will open the Wellington boxing season.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19660114.2.64
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, Volume CV, Issue 30958, 14 January 1966, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
148TO FIGHT IN JAPAN Press, Volume CV, Issue 30958, 14 January 1966, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in