LENNOX Lewis has one worry -- that he might have been too powerful for
his own good in Atlantic City on Friday night.
The WBC heavyweight champion handed out a beating to the courageous
Phil Jackson in full view of WBA and IBF top man Michael Moorer.
Moorer saw Lewis carry out bombing raid after bombing raid with his
jab and right hand before winning 95 seconds into the eighth.
''I think it might have frightened him off,'' feared Lewis. ''But I
can't afford to be negative. I've got to be optimistic that I'll fight
for the undisputed title.''
But first the champion must face the WBC's mandatory challenger Oliver
McCall in late summer, a fight which seems to have some chance of taking
place in Britain in September, with Lewis prepared to take less money
for home advantage.
* MEXICAN boxing legend Julio Cesar Chavez regained the World Boxing
Council super-lightweight title in Las Vegas on Saturday with a split
decision after an unintentional head butt from champion Frankie Randall.
The scheduled 12-round fight was halted with three seconds remaining
in the eighth, shortly after Randall banged heads with Chavez and opened
a long cut over the Mexican's right eyebrow. Acting on the advice of
ringside physician Flip Homansky, referee Mills Lane stopped the bout.
WBC rules mandated that a point be deducted from Randall's score and
it was enough to give Chavez a narrow victory. Chavez led 77-74 and
76-75 on two cards while Randall was ahead
76-75 on the third card.
Terry Norris won back the WBC super-welterweight title he lost to
fellow American Simon Brown six months ago with a unanimous decision,
while America's Gerald McClellan retained the WBC middleweight crown by
knocking out Julian Jackson of the Virgin Islands just 83 seconds into
their title rematch.
James Leija of the United States ended the 10-year reign of Ghana's
Azumah Nelson as WBC super-featherweight champion winning by a
unanimious decision, and undefeated Ricardo Lopez of Mexico boxed his
way to a unanimous decision over Kermin Guardia of Colombia to retain
the WBC straw-weight championship.
* THAILAND'S Pichit Sitbangprachan retained the International Boxing
Federation flyweight title when, in Bangkok last night, he beat
America's Jose Louis Zepada on a split points decision.
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