BOXING
PETER WATERMAN TO FIGHT KID GAVILAN
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, January 6.
Peter Waterman, the 21-year-old unbeaten London welter-weight, faces the stiffest test of his career when he meets Kid. Gavilan, of Cuba, former holder of the world welter-weight championship, at Harringay Arena, London, on February 7.
Promoter Jack Solomons announced the fight today, and said it would be over 10 rounds at 149 pounds.
Waterman has won 121 of his 130 amateur bouts, and is unbeaten in 27 professional contests. He could not, under the British Boxing Board of Control rules, fight for a British title until he was 21.
On the day he came of age last month Waterman was matched with champion Wally Thom for the British title. This match had to be postponed when Thom
had an operation for a hand injury. Gavilan. aged 31, successfully deiended the world championship seven times before losing it to American Johnny Saxton, in October, 1954. In April of the same year Gavilan was also outpointed by Carl “Bobo” Olson in a world middleweight contest.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27861, 9 January 1956, Page 3
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