GOOD FARE PROVIDED FOR BOXING TOURNEY
The Canterbury Boxing Association is making every effort to provide good fare for those attending the double-bill professional tournament at Canterbury Court on Thursday evening.
R. Perez, the American bantam-weight ranked next to the Australian title-holder, N. Kunde, until he was beaten on points by L. Rose last Friday, is on a guaranteed purse of £225.
His opponent, L. Ny, the New Zealand ban-tam-weight champion, will win £l2O if he beats Perez and £BO if he loses. The situation is reversed in the other bout. G. Ford, No. 1 challenger for the A'lstralian welter-weight title held ty Carmen Rotolo, will win £l2O if he beats the C.B.A. Ghanaian import from Britain, E. Mensah, and £BO if he loses. Mensah is guaranteed £3OO win or lose. So the C.B.A. will be paying out more than £lOOO in purses and expenses—but has gained two of the best boxers in Australia. The top-of-the-bill bout between Perez and Ny will be an acid test of Ny's ability. Perez has now been beaten twice by Rose, regarded by many as Australia’s most promising boxer for years, and has beaten Rose once. Rose last year gave Ny a boxing lesson in beating him decisively on points. Rose, aged 19 is now after the title held by N. Kunde. Perez has twice fought T. George (Auckland), the New Zealand feather-weight titleholder. He won the first bout and lost the second. Ny has lodged a challenge for George’s title, so his showing against Perez is doubly important—the C.B.A. is negotiating for Kunde to meet Ny in Christchurch.
Ny is a much more experienced boxer now than when he met Rose, but, unfortunately. is short of bouts in the
ring. In his last fight on April 28 he out-punched and outgenei ailed a poor Australian boxer in P. Carminiti. Perez, who was born in Honolulu, represented the United States as a fly-weight when aged 17 in the Melbourne Olympic Games. He has had about 55 fights as a professional for 40 wins two draws and 13 losses. He is only sft but stockily built and full of confidence. He has fought Kunde five times for two wins and three losses, one of the losses being a title bout. As a fly-
weight, he twice fought for the world title. He is now aged 27.
G. Ford, aged 22, has been boxing for four years as a professional. He has had 21 bouts for 15 wins. A former Australian Rules footballer for the Carlton club, he said last evening that he had been “rubbed out” (ordered off) once or twice when caught fighting by the referee—“which turned niy thoughts to boxing.” Ford said that he was “looking for fights in New Zealand —as I find them very hard to get in Australia.” He said that he had beaten Rotolo in a non-title bout on points and was looking for a bout for the title. He has lost only one bout recently and only two since he has been trained by Mr R. Johnson, of Melbourne. Mr Johnson will be in Ford’s corner for his bout against Mensah. A southpaw. Ford can punch very hard with both hands and is confident that he can beat Mensah, although he is well aware of Mensah’s durability. SPLIT PURSES Both Perez and Ford said that they were most satisfied with the purses offered by the C.B.A. Ford was critical of Australian boxing, saying that crowds were very poor apart I from the matches arranged
by the Sydney Rugby League clubs. He said that the biggest purse he had been paid in Australia was £6O. He said that, after beating Rotolo, Rotolo had by-passed his challenge and had defended his title against a boxer rated as the No. 7 welter-weight contender.
Ford said that he would much prefer to fight on a 60-40 percentage basis of purse, the 60 per cent going to the winner. He considered this would be a real incentive to win, particularly if the purse was a big one. Perez said that he would also be interested in fighting for a purse in which the winner got more than the loser, “particularly if I can win.” “If I do well in the fight on Thursday night, get a big hand from the crowd and a handshake from my opponent, I would be most interested in returning for a bout in which the winner takes more than the loser,” he said.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31109, 12 July 1966, Page 19
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