Tonga's Santos Reaches Boxing Glor
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From a Nukualofa correspondent Tonga’s hope of boxing glory was realised on March 15 wheim Tongan boxer Manoel Santos took the British Empire Lightweight!
Championship from Bunny Grant of Jamaica.
The fight, in Wellington, NZ, crowned a spectacular professional] boxing career for Santos, who had had 18 wins in 20 bouts. Santos*? win was on points after 14 rounds of a match which frequently had as capacity crowd on its toes.
Tongan listeners to Radio New Zealand could hardly hear thea decision for the noise of the cheering.
Santos was born on Tongatapu in 1941. A brother, 16-year-oldb Joey, who is also in New Zealand, is already being tipped as a futures champion comparable to his now famous brother.