P327 CEEFAX 327  Thu 31 Aug  19:16/25
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      BOXING: McCRACKEN SET    
              TO STEP UP       
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 Birmingham's Robert McCrackjn is set to
 turn down a European title chance to   
 move up to middleweight.               
                                        
 The unbeaten British light-middleweight
 champion takes on Jorge Sclarandi in   
 Wolvjrhmapton on Friday but is finding 
 it hard to make the 11st limit.        
                                        
 If hj fails to do so, the fight will go
 ahead as a middleweight contest and    
 McCrackjn has his sights set on success
 in that division in future.            
                                        
 "Things are looking bleak. I have a lot
 of hard work to do to get down to      
 light-middleweight," hj said.          
                                        
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