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But that played into Francis's hands: he caught Starie coming in with a

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But that played into Francis's hands: he caught Starie coming in with a right, and followed with two left hooks to drop him for a count of six against the ropes. He tried to rally, but Francis drove him into his own corner and ripped in hooks to the head until referee Dave Parris intervened as the champion started to sag to the floor.Francis's father Trevor won the ABA welterweight title in this ring in 1972 and challenged unsuccessfully for the British professional title 22 years ago. Cabrera ended the round with his face reddened and looked bewildered as he walked to his corner.Naseem quickly put him out of his misery in the second. Right uppercuts shook him, and although he tried bravely to hit back, Cabrera was painfully out of his depth. A right opened a cut by his right eye and his face was smeared with blood from his nose.

It was the liveliest Cabrera would look all evening: once the opening bell sounded, the gulf in class was immediately apparent as Naseem landed virtually at will with southpaw jabs and jolting left uppercuts.But the champion was in no rush to finish the job, and twice he grinned and walked away after hurting the challenger with left hooks thrown from a southpaw stance. As Naseem said: "When you're getting hit with shots of mine, you don't go past the second round."Cabrera had looked unconcerned during the long drawn- out preliminaries and danced to Naseem's entry music during the five minutes it took the champion to reach ringside. His Argentinian challenger Juan Cabrera, a six-day substitute, lasted two minutes and 17 seconds into the second round, and at least has the satisfaction of having stayed on his feet throughout the one-sided battering, but he was completely outclassed as Naseem retained his title for the seventh time. He had predicted a second-round finish, and delivered in style with thunderous hook and uppercuts which the durable Argentinian did well to survive even for five minutes. When the bookies lay even money against Naseem Hamed winning in the second round, and he duly obliges, it says much about the confidence the money men have in the World Boxing Organisation and International Boxing Featherweight featherweight champion. With Cotton's connections and experience it is expected that he will be the one to head such a team on Brittle's behalf.. We needed to know where we are going in the future and that is why we had to get all of the elements together."The first management board will convene on Thursday week when a special team will be selected to discuss with coaches and club representatives what improvements need to be made to the domestic game. "We had a lengthy and extremely amicable meeting and the guys mentioned were voted for unanimously as the whole committee decided to go towards unity rather than more arguments," Brittle said."The meeting took one and a half hours which is incredibly long for meetings like this.

"It is with deep regret that I am announcing my immediate retirement from the RFU council," he said."I have informed the president and wished him every success in his year in office."Herridge's former job as English Rugby Partnership representative went to Graham Smith while Graham Cattermole replaces him as chairman of finance.The moves came at a meeting on Friday, again at the London Hilton. He has a broad range right throughout the game from the elite like the British Lions, to the grass-roots sections."The only victim of Brittle's new broom so far has been the chairman of the finance committee, Colin Herridge, who suffered a particularly torrid time at the Hilton meeting.Herridge resigned with a parting shot, a statement in which he said he could see no end to the continuing conflicts within the RFU, which would further damage the game's reputation over the coming year. There is a lot to be done and we feel that him and Michael Steer are the people to do the job. "We would be silly to leave Fran's experience on the sidelines. Seven days after his victory at the battle of the Hilton, Cliff Brittle started to move his troops into significant positions in the game. To no one's surprise, Fran Cotton, the forthright Lions manager and even more forthright Brittle advocate in the hostilities at the Rugby Football Union's annual meeting, was asked by the victorious chairman to join the management board set up to administer the game. Cotton and Sir Michael Steer are the new members of the 14-man board. Brittle, the new chairman, said: "Fran is essential to the work we need to do over the next year.

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