Fenech eyes titles
NZPA-Reuter Sydney The Australian, Jeff Fenech, fresh from a ID-round destruction of the Puerto Rican Victor Callejas, believes he can become the first boxer in history to win five world titles at different weights. How quickly Fenech can achieve this feat will depend on how injured x-rays show his right hand to be. i. -j Fenech broke a bone in his hand in training a month ago but kept quiet about the pain in the build-up to the World Boxing Council (W.8.C.) featherweight title fight against Callejas. ' I I The American Thomas “Hitman” Hearns, is the only boxer to have won four world titles in separate divisions. Fenech became the eleventh to take out three crowns with his impressive victory over ai man rated his most difficult opponent yet. )
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Press, 9 March 1988, Page 72
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