WRESTLING TITLE
KATAN V. M’CREADY For_ -the first time since 1936 a wrestling contest for the professional heavy-weight championship of the British Empire is to be held in Dunedin, the Otago Association having been successful" in obtaining the match between M'Cready and Katan for Tuesday, September 24. This match should decide the issue as tS which of the two wrestlers takes the title back to Canada. Added interest attaches to this contest, as M'Cready, former title-holder, is the challenger for what New Zealand wrestling audiences have regarded as his own title. Katan has shown himself to be perhaps the best defensive wrestler ever to appear in the" local ring, and if M'Cready is to recover the championship he will be required to carry the fight to Katan from the word go. Katan has demonstrated that he is well able to defend himself, and as the title cannot pass on a points decision M'Oteady will have his greatest match in the local ring. To defeat Katan on falls has proved the hardest task for any of the wrestlers in the Dominion this season, and the holder of the title has only to prevent M'Cready from obtaining a fall to retain it,^
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Evening Star, Issue 23683, 17 September 1940, Page 9
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200WRESTLING TITLE Evening Star, Issue 23683, 17 September 1940, Page 9
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