Sport in Short: Boxing

THE WELSH Amateur Boxing Association yesterday banned two fighters, Neil Swain, the 19-year-old Welsh flyweight champion, and the 20-year-old welterweight, Lee Taylor, for life following a disturbance at a hotel during a tour of Germany.

MICHAEL WATSON BENEFIT (Grosvenor House, London): 8-rds middleweight: C Manners (Leeds) bt S King (Forest Hill) pts. 10-rds for Welsh middleweight title: W Ellis (Cardiff, holder) bt M Phillips (Warrington) rsf 7th. 6-rds flyweight: N Ahmed (Sheffield) bt M Matthews (Swansea) rsf 3rd.