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Unaisi Ratubalavu
Fiji’s legendary boxer Alipate Korovou. Picture: FILE
On March 20, 1978, The Fiji Times ran a report on Fiji’s Commonwealth middleweight boxing champion Alipate Korovou.
The report stated Korovou’s next target was a shot at Australian Rock Mattioli’s world light middleweight crown.
He said he spoke to his wife, Diana, in Sydney after he knocked out Monty Betham in the 12th round.
She told him his trainer, Ern McQuillan, had promised for him to have a crack at Mattioli’s title.
“But I said it must be this year,” the 32-year-old Korovou said back then.
“I’ve had a long, hard career in the ring and I’m definitely going to retire at the end of the year.”