ITALY: WORLD FLYWEIGHT CHAMPION CHIONOI IS TRAINING FOR HIS FIGHT AGAINST EFREN TORRES

Record ID: 375928

  • Title: ITALY: WORLD FLYWEIGHT CHAMPION CHIONOI IS TRAINING FOR HIS FIGHT AGAINST EFREN TORRES
  • Date: 24th January 1969
  • Summary: 1. SV & CU CHIONOI WORKS OUT ON PUNCH BAG 0.16 2. CU CHIONOI WORKS OUT ON PUNCH BALL 0.26 3. SV CHIONOI SKIPPING 0.42 4. SV & CU CHIONOI (WEARING DRESSING GOWN) SHADOW BOXING IN RING 0.54 Initials EH/V/CR/SS SPORT: BOXING NOTE OUR PROD NO. 8939/67: "CIONOI TRAINS FOR WORLD FLYWEIGHT FIGHT", SERVICED SEPTEMBER 13 1967 REFERS. Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 8th February 1969 13:00
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  • Location: ROME, ITALY
  • Country: Italy
  • Reuters ID: LVAD2Q5BIS03Z56HDI9ICWKE95LG
  • Story Text: WORLD FLY WEIGHT CHAMPION CHARTCHAI CHIONOI IS TRAINING IN ROME FOR HIS FIGHT AGAINST THE MEXICAN CHALLENGER EFFREN TORRES, WHOM HE WILL MEET IN MEXICO CITY ON 23 FEBUARY.

    THE CHAMPION - WHO COMES FROM THAILAND - TOOK THE TITLE FROM WALTER MCGOWAN, THE SCOTTISH EX-CHAMPION, IN BANGKOK IN DECEMBER 1966. SINCE THEN HE HAS DEFEATED MCGOWAN AGAIN IN LONDON LAST SEPTEMBER, AFTER BEATING HIS THAI CHALLENGER PUNTIP MANKIT IN THREE ROUNDS.
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