TIRANA. Aug 7. Two elderly Albanian boxers are planning a return to tlx ring to celebrate the

lifting of a 28-year communist ban on the sport, reports Reuter.

The newspaper Bashklml on Monday said the bout between Ahmet Goleml and Dhori Gernjoti. both aged 50. would symbolise the revival of boxing in the small Balkan state.

The report did not say when, where or over how many rounds the match would be. It said both men were ex prisoners but did not say if they had been jailed in connection with the sport.

The late Stalinist leader

Enver Hoxha, who died in 1985,banned boxing in 1963 as bourgeois and Inhumane.

Albanians say Hoxha clamped down after one of his sons came home from a boxing outing with a bloodied nose.

A national boxing federation was revived last month, one month after the collapse of one-party communist rule.