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It is being reported on BBN (Tom Podmore) that Coventry featherweight Richard Evatt is on his way back. He seeemed to be continually popping up in best knockout tapes even as a victim in some.

Talking of the Junior Jones fight he said: “I would have been driving round in a BMW now if I had avoided that punch,” Evatt admits. “The plan was to beat Jones, defend the title against a top American and then fight Prince Naseem Hamed."

At 33, how far can go?

http://www.britishboxing.net/news_2004- ... March.html

From vertical to horizontal?

That Jones fight broke my heart, Evatt did so well in it until running out of gas and getting caught.

I would have expected he will be completely shot now though, he was shot after the Jones fight.

I agree with Goz, the Jones fight was a heart breaker.

It was one of those fights where the underdog was making the most of his chance, and boy was he.

Shame he fell apart....oh so close - Not sure what he can do now, but I think he'll find it difficult.

I do find it odd that all of a sudden the reason why he was consistently failing the scans has cleared up. Not suggesting anything sinister, but I have always watched Evatt through the gaps between my fingers semi expecting (sorry to say) it ending disasterously.

I doubt he'd be allowed to come back really, he looked shot in his last couple of fights and a come back wouldnt be wise I think...

silkov wrote:I doubt he'd be allowed to come back really, he looked shot in his last couple of fights and a come back wouldnt be wise I think...

All the medical examinations have been past according to the report.

stujones wrote:

silkov wrote:I doubt he'd be allowed to come back really, he looked shot in his last couple of fights and a come back wouldnt be wise I think...

All the medical examinations have been past according to the report.

I find it strange that he was so close to the wire concerning passing his tests early in his career and yet now seems to be fine??... strange.
I always liked watching him, but fighters with his style never usually last long and his last fight (early ko loss I think) seemed to show that he's lost all punch resistance... which wont have improved with years of inactivity. Good luck to him, but I dont think he should be fighting again...

He'll need more than luck after all that's happened since the Jones fight. Without doubt a tremendously exciting fighter in his day, but I can only see a comeback ending one way for Evatt.