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Friday, March 25, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Foreman kept off fight card, would not fight viable foes
The Associated Press
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Former heavyweight champion George Foreman, coming off an unimpressive showing against Dwight Muhammad Qawi, was dropped from a June 6 fight card because he refused to meet any credible fighters, promoter Bob Arum said yesterday.
The decision apparently leaves Foreman's comeback at the age of 40 in doubt, but Arum left open the possibility that the former champion could rejoin him late in the summer if he gets in better fighting shape.
"We wanted him to fight a tough younger fighter, and he didn't feel he was ready. Arum said. We didn't see it. He wouldn't have said." We didn't feel that was salable."
Arum said Foreman, who made $100,000 for stopping a flabby Qawi in the seventh round Saturday, had looked worse in his last two fights than he did in earlier comeback fights.
Foreman has won eight straight fights since beginning his comeback a year ago after a decade out of the ring.
"At each fight, he's looked progressively worse," Arum said. "He stopped training. He's training his body, but he's not sparring, not doing the things he has to do."
Foreman had been scheduled to fight on a June 6 card at Las Vegas topped by middleweight champion Thomas Hearns. Arum had given Foreman a list of five fighters to choose as opponents, including former heavyweight champion Michael Dokes, himself in the midst of a
comeback.
Foreman could not be reached for comment at his home in Houston, but Arum said the former champion indicated that he would take his comeback on the road, fighting lesser opponents in non-televised fights.
"He needs to go to the bushes and come back to us when he's ready for a major opponent," Arum said.
Against Qawi, Foreman looked slow and awkward, and his punches frequently missed their mark. He showed none of the left jab that he used so effectively in stopping Deceased December in his first televised comeback fight.
"It didn't discourage me at all," Foreman said after the Qawi fight. "I'm not going for one, two, three round knockouts. I'm an old man."
Although Foreman had trimmed down to 235 pounds for the Qawi fight from 244 for his fight Feb. 5 against Guido Trane, he had done little sparring in preparation for Qawi.
"He spars with this big white kid who has never fought as a pro." Arum said. "What good does that do?""
Critics of Foreman's comeback have dismissed his opponents as little more than journeyman fighters. Qawi, the only recognizable name, proved to be washed up and out of shape, entering the ring with 222 pounds on his 5-foot-7 frame.
Foreman was to have fought Sweden's Anders Eklund instead of Qawi, but he decided against fighting Eklund, reportedly because he was concerned with Eklund's large size.
Royals to decide bullpen list
The Associated Press
“There’ll be some sleepless nights
that he’ll be sure,” said Manager
John Watkins.
The end will come next week. The Royals by April 1 must trim seven players from among the 31 now on their roster. Most of the cuts will be predictable and easy enough to make. But it's the last one, determining the make-up of the bullpen crew, that is tough.
"It's a real problem," said Frank
Funk, the Royals pitching coach.
"And it's one we just don't have a handle on yet. We hope something surfaces in our crystal ball very soon and tells us what to do. We can't afford to make a mistake here and take the wrong guy."
The Royals must decide whether the last of the nine pitching spots on the roster goes to the high-priced Quisenberry, who has been ineffective the past two years, or Gene Garber, the 40-year-old veteran acquired from Atlanta late last season.
Quisenberry, 35, got off to a woeful start. He was shellied for five hits and five runs in his first outing of the spring.
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