Introduced by Steve Rider Featuring tonight:
International Snooker from The Hexagon, Reading The Rothmans Grand Prix This time last year
DENNIS TAYLOR pocketed the winner's cheque, and went on to claim the World Championship.
Total prize money this year, is £250,000 and, if the seedings work out, Taylor will face TONY MEO tonight - best of nine frames - for a place in the quarter-final.
Commentators TED LOWE
JACK KARNEHM , CLIVE EVERTON 'Boxer of the Year' Awards
This afternoon in London the boxing world gathered to find out the winner of the award for Britain's Boxer of the Year - a title won in 1984 by Barry McGuigan. The event, organised by the British
Boxing Board of Control and Newnes Books, also featured awards to overseas boxer of the year, and to the men involved in Britain's best fight of 1985. Plus news of all tonight's European football. Television presentation
Snooker KEITH MACKENZIE Boxing MARTIN WEBSTER Producer ROGER MOODY Editor JOHN ROWLINSON