Sporting Digest: Boxing

CHRIS EUBANK will defend his World Boxing Organisation super-middleweight title against Brazil's Mauricio Amaral at Olympia on 9 July. Eubank nominated eight others he will fight as part of a pounds 10m television deal, alist that included Nigel Benn and James Toney, the International Boxing Federation World Champion. Five of the eight bouts are likely to be staged in Britain. The overseas options are Berlin, Rome, Paris, Copenhagen and Sun City.