AUSTRALIA: THE WEIGH-IN FOR ON AUSTRALIAN'S GOLD COAST FOR THE FIGHT BETWEEN JAMES "BONECRUSHER" SMITH AND JOE BUGNER

Record ID: 1253349

  • Title: AUSTRALIA: THE WEIGH-IN FOR ON AUSTRALIAN'S GOLD COAST FOR THE FIGHT BETWEEN JAMES "BONECRUSHER" SMITH AND JOE BUGNER
  • Date: 3rd July 1998
  • Summary: GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA (JULY 3, 1998) (SEVEN NET - NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA) 1. WEIGHING IN: JAMES "BONECRUSHER" SMITH WEIGHS IN 2. JOE BUGNER WEIGHS IN 3. BUGNER AND BONE CRUSHER AT NEWS CONFERENCE 4. BUGNER SAYS EVERYTHING HAS GONE WELL, I HAVE SPARRED WITH A FIGHTER SIMILAR TO BONECRUSHER, I WISH THE FIGHT WAS TONIGHT. I AM NOT DISTRACTED AS I WAS FOR MY LAST FIGHT (ENGLISH) 5. MINDERS 6. SMITH SAYS SO AS YOU KNOW, MOST OF OUR TRAINING IS DONE IN AMERICA. WE TRAINED HARD EIGHT WEEKS FOR THIS FIGHT AND WE KNOW JOE IS AN "UGLY" GUY AND WE KNOW HE IS A HERO HERE AND WE'RE FOCUSSED AND MY MISSION IS REALLY TO SHOW THAT I'M A REPRESENTATIVE OF GOD AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THE SPIRIT AND THE POWER TOMORROW. SO I'M LOOKING FOR MY PLACE IN BOXING HISTORY. SO WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING AGAINST JOE AND WE'D LIKE TO COME BACK TO AUSTRALIA AND JOE CAN FIGHT ON THE UNDERCARD IF YOU LIKE. BUT TOMORROW I'M GOING TO WIN THE TITLE." (ENGLISH) 7. AIDES IN SHADES Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND
  • Country: Australia
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  • Story Text:In what is shaping up as a heavyweight title fight for the senior's division, American James "Bonecrusher" Smith and "Aussie" Joe Bugner are preparing to slug it out in Australia for the vacant World Boxing Federation (WBF) heavyweight title. The weigh-in for was held on Friday (July 3) on Australia's Gold Coast for the fight on Saturday (July 4). At 45 and 48 respectively, the WBF title fight between Smith and Bugner is a real battle of the oldies. On arrival on Wednesday (July 1), Smith questioned whether the two ageing heavyweights still had the strength to knock each other out. But at the weigh-in on Friday, both fighters were raring to go. Bugner, the Hungarian-born former British and European champion who now fights as an Australian, said he was looking forward to his second shot at a world title 23 years after losing out to Muhammad Ali. Smith, who lost the World Boxing Association title to Mike Tyson in 1987, was also confident after spending seven weeks in a camp preparing for the fight.
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