UK: BOXERS WEIGH-IN BEFORE WORLD FEATHERWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT IN WHICH WINSTONE DEFEATED SEKI.

Record ID: 375940

  • Title: UK: BOXERS WEIGH-IN BEFORE WORLD FEATHERWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT IN WHICH WINSTONE DEFEATED SEKI.
  • Date: 23rd January 1968
  • Summary: 1. GV OFFICIALS 0.03 2. CU ZOOM OUT SEKI ON SCALES 0.15 3. CU OFFICIAL ADJUSTS WEIGHTS 0.24 4. CU SEKI ON SCALES 0.28 5. CU WEIGHTS ZOOM BASK AS SEKI STEPS DOWN 0.45 6. SV CAMERAMAN 0.46 7. SV WINSTONE ONTO SOALES 0.54 8. CU WEIGHTS 0.57 9. SV WINSTONE WITH THUMBS UP 1.01 10. SV DRESS 1.04 11. LV CONTESTANTS SHAKE HANDS 1.14 12. GV AUDIENCE 1.16 13. SV CONTESTANTS WITH FORMER CHAMPION 1.23 Initials ERW/V/RM/EEH SPORT: BOXING Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 7th February 1968 12:00
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  • Location: LONDON, UK
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  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA9B1PHFYCFFBZQQICN3BCQKUE9
  • Story Text: HOWARD WINSTONE, THE 28-YEAR-OLD WELSHMAN TONIGHT (TUESDAY) WON THE VACANT WORLD FEATHERWEIGHT BOXING TITLE IN DRAMATIC FASHION WHEN ME STOPPED MITSUNORI SEKI, OF JAPAN, IN THE NINTH BOUND OF THE 15 ROUND CONTEST. WINSTONE LANDED A SHARP LEFT HOOK, WHICH SLASHED SEKI'S RIGHT EYE, HALFWAY THROUGH THE ROUND BLOOD GUSHED FROM THE WOUND AND THE REFEREE STOPPED THE FIGHT, DECLARING WINSTONE THE WINNER. AFTER THE FIGHT, SEKI ANNOUNCED HE WOULD RETIRE.

    AT THE WEIGH-IN, BEFORE THE FIGHT WINSTONE APPEARED CONFIDENT AND GATE THE THUMBS-UP SIGN AS HE STEPPED FROM THE SCALES.

    THE MAN WHO VACATED THE FEATHERWEIGHT CROWN, VICENTE SALDIVAR, OF MEXICO, ATTENDED THE WEIGH-IN. WINSTONE HAD, THREE TIMES, SUFFERED DEFEAT AT THE HANDS OF THE VICIOUS SALDIVAR.

    SEKI, RENOWNED FOR HIS FAST, SHARP HITTING, KEPT WINSTONE BACKING AWAY IN THE EARLY STAGES BUT THE WELSHMAN CAME BACK STRONGLY AND WAS AHEAD ON POINTS WHEN THE REFEREE STOPPED THE FIGHT.

    SEKI, DEJERTED AND DISAPPOINTED WITH THE DECISION, SAID LATER THAT THE CUT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED SERIOUS IN JAPAN.

    WINSTONE ANNOUNCED BEFORE THE FIGHT THAT, WIN OR LOSE, HE WOULD RETIRE AT THE END OF THE YEAR. THE WELSHMAN IS THE VETERAN OF 64 FIGHTS.
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