Boxing News magazine 12.4.1985 Download pdf

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THE middleweight division regains the glory and glamour of years past
with Monday's long awaited battle of the champs between Marvin
Hagler and Thomas Hearns.
Hagler has dominated since ripping the title away from Alan Minter
in three bloody rounds at Wembley in 1980.
Now, for the first time, he's in with a challenger who has an even
chance of beating him.

TWO welterweight wars for the British and Commonwealth
crowns respectively form the double-header main
attractions on an ambitious Saturday afternoon show at
the Darlington Leisure Centre tomorrow (Saturday).
Kostas Petrou and Rocky Kelly clash for the vacant
British title, while Commonwealth champion Sylvester
Mittee makes an imaginative defence against Martin
McGough.

IN THE other half of the double welterweight title bill at
the Dolphin Leisure Centre Sylvester Mittee makes the
first defence of his Commonwealth title against Coventry's
Martin McGough in a fight that should provide more
refined boxing, if fewer thrills and spills, than the Kelly-
Petrou British title match.

YORK HALL, Bethnal Green becomes the unlikely
setting f o r t o p world class boxing when leading Americans
James Kinchen and Buster Drayton meet there in a
10-round middleweight contest on Sunday (April 14)
This show has a rather strange history; promoters Mike
Barrett and Mickey Duff had originally booked Drayton
(known here for his stoppage victories over Jimmy Cable
and Mark Kaylor last year) to fight European middleweight
champion Tony Sibson at Wembley on the same
date in a contest that was t o be shown live on American
television.

CORNELIUS BOZA-EDWARDS, the former WBC
junior-lightweight champion, meets MELVIN PAUL of
New Orleans over 10 rounds in the chief support in what
looks an interesting match between two world class boxers,
writes SEAN SHEAHAN.
This will be Boza's first appearance in London for three
years. His last visit was in October when he took just three
rounds to stop highly rated Charlie 'Choo Choo' Brown at
the Kings Hall in Belfast.

LONDON provided almost half the winners when
the George Wimpey ABA English semi-finals were
decided at the Leisure Centre.
The capital's contingent, with the exception of
Leigh Williams and Mark Patrick, captured 10 of
the 12 spots available to them at the British ABA
semi-finals at Preston on April 17.
It was, however, a man from the north-east, John
Davison, who provided the major talking point of
these semi-finals which held the audience's
interest for five hours.
Featherweight Davison, 25, left the
ringsiders spellbound as his southpaw
right hook had England representative
Colin Lynch (Triumph) lying
prostrate on the canvas after one
minute 50 seconds of the first.