FIELDS HAD TO PAY LEVY
The reason Jimmy Fields, the Californian Negro boxer, demanded an extra £7O to fight Brian Maunsell, the New Zealand lightweight champion, tomorrow evening, was to pay a “levy” imposed by the New Zealand Boxing Council.
This was stated by the president of the Canterbury Boxing Association (Mr E. G. Pocock) yesterday.
The boxing council did not demand a levy from an overseas boxer fighting his first bout in New Zealand. In subsequent bouts, however, the
council required the boxer to pay a sum to assist in the administration of boxing in this country.
Mr Pocock said that this was the reason why Fields had asked for the extra 200 dollars. Fields had not known of the boxing council’s levy and realised he would be getting £7O less than he thought his share of the purse would be. Fields is on a fixed purse, win or lose, as had been agreed to at the last annual meeting of the New Zealand Boxing Association in Dunedin.
Maunsell would be fighting for 60 per cent of a purse limited to £750 if he won, and 40 per cent, if he lost. The size of the purse would be in proportion to the gate the two boxers drew.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31016, 23 March 1966, Page 21
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