Boxing News magazine Download PDF 1.6.1973

Boxing news1973. SMOKEING JOE FOR BUGNERSURE THING STRACEYMONZON THE IRON MANRICHARD DUNN'S FINAL WORBOXING NEWS AMATEUR RATINGS 1973

FIGHT fans would usually be bitterly disappointed
if the two main bouts on a programme
ended abruptly. But not on the memorable night of
February 27, 1951, when a joy-filled Harringay
Arena acclaimed the whirlwind successes of British
champions Randolph Turpin and Don Cockell in a
combined total of 83 seconds.

COCKNEY pride John H. Stracey has impatiently
awaited the chance to get Coventry's Bobby Arthur
back in the ring with him. On Tuesday the waiting is
over and the punching starts when Arthur defends
his British welterweight title against Stracey at the
Albert Hail.

AUSTRALIA'S Commonwealth light-welterweight champion Hector
Thompson gets the chance he has been seeking for some time when he
meets Panama's bustling Roberto Duran for the WBA lightweight title
tomorrow (Saturday) in Panama City; writes BARRY PESTANA.

THE YEAR 1961 was a golden one for British
amateur boxing. It culminated with the famous
10-0 thrashing of the Americans at Wembley
Pool, and earlier in the year Dick McTaggart
and Frankie Taylor had returned from the European
championships in Belgrade' with gold
medals.

VETERAN heavyweight Lucjan Trela, who lasted the
distance with George Foreman in the 1968 Mexico Olympics,
is included in Poland's 11-man team for the European
championships.

KENNY MATTHEWS, West Ham's North East London
featherweight champion, took a majority points decision,
when he clashed with Eastern Counties titleholder Steve
Crickmore (Lowestoft) at the Melody Rooms.