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SPORTING DIGEST: BOXING

Wednesday 01 December 1999 00:02 GMT
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SPORTING DIGEST: BOXING

The condition of comatose boxer Stephan Johnson, who was taken to hospital after being knocked out by Paul Vaden in a USBA junior middleweight fight 20 Nov, is continuing to deteriorate. His manager, Kenneth Woods, said the 31-year-old from Brooklyn has pneumonia and is battling a fever that has reached 40C.

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