PROFESSIONAL BOXING
Not since 1939 has the Otago Boxing Association staged a professional lightweight match, but Monday night’s contest between Billy Brown, of Invercargill, and Ernie Underwood, of Auckland, should be packed with thrills Both men are fast, aggressive fighters, and Brown has the distinction of being the only New Zealander to defeat the Australian welter-weight. Joe Grant. Underwood lias returned from a successful Australian campaign and is a much-improved fighter, and has already issued a challenge to lan Cruickshan'k for his welter-weight title Six excellent preliminaries have been arranged. Full details are advertised.
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Evening Star, Issue 26102, 16 May 1947, Page 8
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94PROFESSIONAL BOXING Evening Star, Issue 26102, 16 May 1947, Page 8
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