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Aitken Takes Bout
A clash full of dash, that was the six-round bout between Nigel Aitken of Hastings and Ben Compain of Auckland. The light-heavyweight bout climaxed an evening of good boxing at the Makaraka Hall before a capacity crowd.
Other fights from the tournament are shown on the next page.
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Aitken waits patiently for Compain to come back through the ropes after having been knocked out of the ring.
Easily evading his opponent, R. O'Connell (right) wins his bout with C. Campbell.
What looked to be an interesting bout was stopped when S. Tapatui (right) unfortunately caught L. Tipoki a low blow.
L. Reiri (right) was declared the winner over W. Lloyd after referee Colin Whelan stopped their fight in the second round.
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