CONTEST A FIASCO
Dispute Over Boxer’s Weight
. London, May 5. At Manchester Jackie Brown. British flyweight champion, won the European championship, outpointing the Rumanian title-holder, Lucien Popescu. The contest proved a fiasco, . tor Popescu was half a pound overweight. An official of the British Board of Control allowed him an hour in which to rid himself of his. overweight, but he refused. , , _• , He entered the ring only wh<>n Brown s manager agreed to waive the forfeit. The crowd was incensed at the delay, ihe fight started at 10 o’clock after a heated discussion in the dressing-room.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 188, 7 May 1931, Page 9
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