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===Super featherweight title challenges=== {{Main|Azumah Nelson vs. Jeff Fenech}} After that, Fenech took one year off and came back in 1991 as a [[super featherweight]]. After beating Johnny Calhoun by a knockout in four, he tried to become a four division world champion when he met [[Azumah Nelson]]. The fight was fought on the undercard to the [[Mike Tyson]] vs [[Donovan Ruddock|Razor Ruddock]] rematch at [[Caesars Palace]] in [[Las Vegas]]. After 12 ferocious rounds the bout was controversially declared a draw with many of the boxing press who were present (as well as Tyson) claiming that Fenech had been robbed of a clear win.<ref>{{cite news |last=Goldstein |first=Alan |date=28 June 1991 |title=Nelson fights to draw, retains WBC super-featherweight title |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-06-29-1991180068-story.html |work=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |access-date=12 November 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210622053943/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-06-29-1991180068-story.html |archive-date=22 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Hasen |first=Jeff |date=28 June 1991 |title=Nelson, Fenech fight to draw |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/06/28/Nelson-Fenech-fight-to-draw/6140678081600/ |work=United Press International |access-date=12 November 2022}}</ref> Fenech has accused Nelson's promoter [[Don King]] of [[Match fixing|fixing]] the fight: "Him being Azumah Nelson and being under the Don King banner helped him because I believe the referee ([[Joe Cortez]]) didn’t let me do what I wanted to do, breaking up the fight, let Azumah hit me after the bell. People want to say I’m a dirty fighter but I only retaliate when someone does something to me. I’ve got no need to do something dirty at the start because I’m busy trying to cut the ring off and put pressure on. Like I said, although I won the fight, nobody tried to help me like that. The judging, the referring, everything was against me."<ref name="ringtv">{{cite web |url=https://www.ringtv.com/479284-best-faced-jeff-fenech/ |title=Best I Faced: Jeff Fenech |last=Wainwright |first=Anson |date=6 January 2017 |website= |access-date=9 January 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109220327/https://www.ringtv.com/479284-best-faced-jeff-fenech/ |archive-date=9 January 2017}}</ref> On Monday 7 November 2022, a review of the fight by WBC Boxing retrospectively declared Fenech the winner, thus giving him a fourth world title.<ref>{{cite news |last=Healy |first=Jon |date=8 November 2022 |title=Jeff Fenech wins super featherweight world title 31 years after controversial draw with Azumah Nelson |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-09/jeff-fenech-wins-world-title-31-years-after-azumah-nelson-draw/101632582 |work=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=12 November 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221109000026/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-09/jeff-fenech-wins-world-title-31-years-after-azumah-nelson-draw/101632582 |archive-date=9 November 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=McMurtry |first=Andrew |date=9 November 2022 |title=Boxing fans stunned after controversial 1991 Jeff Fenech fight overturned |url=https://www.news.com.au/sport/boxing/boxing-fans-stunned-after-controversial-1991-jeff-fenech-fight-overturned/news-story/6cb6c0e1e4c82aa44537bba422ddeb3c |work=[[news.com.au]] |access-date=12 November 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221109061509/https://www.news.com.au/sport/boxing/boxing-fans-stunned-after-controversial-1991-jeff-fenech-fight-overturned/news-story/6cb6c0e1e4c82aa44537bba422ddeb3c |archive-date=9 November 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/34981371/australian-jeff-fenech-awarded-fourth-world-boxing-title |title=Fenech awarded fourth world title 31 years on |date=8 November 2022 |website=[[ESPN]] |access-date=12 November 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108235340/https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/34981371/australian-jeff-fenech-awarded-fourth-world-boxing-title |archive-date=8 November 2022}}</ref> Fenech returned to Australia and after beating Miguel Francia, Nelson travelled to [[Melbourne, Australia|Melbourne]] to offer Fenech a second title try. This time in front of over 30,000 fans at the [[Princes Park (stadium)|Princes Park]] football stadium, Fenech suffered his first loss, when he was knocked out in the eighth round for Nelson to retain the world title. Fenech's TKO loss was recognized as the [[Ring Magazine]] [[Upset of the Year]].<ref name="ringtv" /> After that fight, he fought sporadically. In 1993, he was beaten in seven rounds by knockout by [[United States|American]] former IBF featherweight champion [[Calvin Grove]] at the [[Rod Laver Arena]] in Melbourne, and in 1995, he beat Tialano Tovar, by a knockout in eight in [[New Jersey]].
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