COVENTRY'S MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMPION STEVEN BENDALL IS NOW THE MANDATORY CHALLENGER FOR HOWARD EASTMAN'S BRITISH TITLE THE FIGHT IS SUPPOSED TO BE ON BEFORE NEXT JANUARY. STEVEN SAYS HE WILL HAVE ONE FIGHT BEFORE THIS.  COULD THIS FIGHT BE IN COVENTRY AND WHO WOULD IT BE AGAINST.  WHAT A NIGHT OF BOXING COVENTRY FANS WOULD BE TREATED TO IF WE WE HAD MAYBE ROY RUTHERFORD NEIL SIMPSON AND STEVIE BENDALL ALL UNDER THE SAME ROOF ALONG WITH TWO OR THREE OTHER LOCAL LADS

LOCAL LAD STEVE BENDALL WE STILL THINK OF HIM AS LOCAL ALTHOUGH HE NOW LIVES IN BOURNEMOUTH HAS A GREAT FOLLOWING OF COVENTRY BOXING FANS WHERE EVER HE FIGHTS AND WE HAVN'T SEEN HIM IN COVENTRY SINCE APRIL 2002 LET US HOPE THAT THE POWERS THAT BE CAN GET HIS NEXT FIGHT ON IN COVENTRY.  JUST A QUICK GET WELL TO KEITH BENDALL WHO HAS JUST UNDERGONE A SERIOUS OPERATION AND IS NOW ON THE MEND GOOD LUCK KEITH SEE YOU AT THE NEXT FIGHT CHEERS JIM.