Sporting Digest: Boxing

Tuesday 24 August 1993 23:02 BST

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MAXIMO PIERRET, who trained Chris Eubank for his first five professional bouts, is working with Eubank's regular trainer, Ronnie Davies, to prepare the World Boxing Organisation super-middleweight champion for his fight with Nigel Benn at Old Trafford on 9 October. Benn has also reunited with a former trainer, Jimmy Tibbs, in preparation for the fight.

RAY CLOSE, of Belfast, will relinquish his European super-middleweight championship in order to concentrate on a world title attempt later this year.

WILFREDO VASQUEZ, of Puerto Rico, will defend his World Boxing Association junior featherweight championship against Hiroaki Yokota, of Japan, in Tokyo on 18 November.

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