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- ↑ "Boxing", Glasgow Herald , 12 May 1978, p. 30. Retrieved 17 October 2015
- ↑ "Boksen", Leidsch Dagblad, 6 June 1978, p. 17
- ↑ Boxing News, 9 February 1979