51.   BILLY HARDY is hot on the trail of former world featherweight champion Paul Hodkinson.

52.   FORMER world boxing champion Paul Hodkinson appeared in court today charged with assault.

53.   Germany, the defending world champions, kick off the tournament in Chicago and will play two of their three first-round matches there.

54.   World flyweight champion Muangchai Kittikasem retained his WBC crown yesterday in Bangkok when he stopped fellow-Thai Sot Chitalada in the ninth round.

55.   The world champion took the third frame, but with Wattana winning the fourth everything at this point suggested a tense final.

56.   Even the bookmakers lost faith in the world champion who began the event without the status of favourite for the first time in three years.

57.   STEPHEN HENDRY continues to walk a tightrope between success and failure as he strives for the form that made him world champion just ten months ago.

58.   The world heavyweight champion, Riddick Bowe, said yesterday he had agreed to a rematch with Evander Holy- field, whom he dethroned last November.

59.   It would be churlish to suggest Lewis fights under a flag of convenience or that his status as world champion has only been able to be enjoyed by default.