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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 (left) showed speed and agility. Here he comes back from the corner to throw a straight left to Compain.

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Aitken didn't quite have it all his own way and the prospective Munich representative gets a hard one from Compain's straight right in the picture at.

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Aitken waits patiently for Compain to come back through the ropes after having been knocked out of the ring.

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Easily evading his opponent, R. O'Connell (right) wins his bout with C. Campbell.

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What looked to be an interesting bout was stopped when S. Tapatui (right) unfortunately caught L. Tipoki a low blow.

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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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