The talk in boxing

Frank Maloney calls Talk to dispute Weymouth football club manager Steve Johnson's recollection of the fight between the two men some years ago which ended with Maloney being dismissed from the ring for biting.
Talk last week reported Johnson's claim that "I was hammering him so he bit me, ripped my cheek and got disqualified".
Maloney, the boxing manager who rather fancies himself as boss of a non-League football side, admits to gnashing but says: "I don't recall Johnson bashing me up.
"There's one way to settle this. I challenge him to a charity rematch with the proceeds going to the tsunami relief fund. If Johnson now fights the way he manages Weymouth it will be an easy win for me."

Klitschko tempts Lewis

Lennox Lewis to make a comeback against Vitali Klitschko in November. That's the whisper picked up by Talk's man in Los Angeles.
Of course, there is a catalogue of "ifs". If LA-based Klitschko retains his WBC title, probably against Hasim Rahman, in May; if Lewis can lose the excess baggage around his waist; and, crucially, if the price is right.

Holyfield's 'hand of God'

Former undisputed heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield has visited Sri Lanka to help the tsunami relief effort.
Holyfield flew to the stricken region as part of the Global Peace Initiative group headed by philanthropist KA Paul. He said: "The spirit of God is with me. I believe that people shouldn't just see the disaster and stop at that, but they should do something about it."

McGuigan fame sealed

Talk congratulates Barry McGuigan, who becomes only the third British boxer of the modern era, after Randolph Turpin and Ken Buchanan, to be inducted into the sport's Hall of Fame.
McGuigan claimed the world featherweight championship when he outlasted Panamanian Eusebio Pedroza over 15 gruelling rounds at QPR's Loftus Road ground in June 1985.
Poignantly, the late Harry Mullan, a friend of McGuigan who edited Boxing News, is a posthumous inductee to the Hall.

Enzo's date with model

Enzo Maccarinelli should be on model behaviour when he defends his WBU cruiserweight title in Bridgend on Friday week because the Briton's American challenger Rich LaMontagne has strutted his stuff for fashion labels Calvin Klein, Versace and Hugo Boss.
A pout with no clout? "I would rather Maccarinelli think I'm a pretty boy because it will be a shock to him when he finds himself in the fight of his life," says LaMontagne.

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