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Headed for the Big Apple?

Report: Madison Square Garden site of Holyfield-Lewis bout

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Posted: Thursday October 22, 1998 09:28 PM

Lennox Lewis' big chance will likely come in the Big Apple Jay Jacobson/Allsport

LONDON (AP) -- The Evander Holyfield-Lennox Lewis heavyweight unification fight could be headed for Madison Square Garden instead of Las Vegas.

Without citing a source, the British domestic news agency the Press Association said Thursday Madison Square Gardens was the site with March 13 the likely date.

Holyfield, the WBA and IBF champion, has signed for the bout and WBC champion Lewis is expected to ign shortly.

"There are no major problems with the fight, there are just a couple of legal things to sort out. The television is all agreed," Lewis' manager Frank Maloney said.

"If the fight does take place at Madison Square Garden it will be a great privilege," Maloney added. "Most people remember the other great heavyweight fight of modern times there between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier in 1971."

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