Boxing News magazine 18.1.1985 Download pdf

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IT'S ALWAYS satisfying returning to the grass roots. Boys' Clubs are my
particular charitable hobby horse. I used to edit a club rag at 17, had my
nose well-bloodied twice in the London Feds, appeared in two radio plays
with ITMA's famed Tommy Handley.
It was pleasing to present prizes for the Class A championships for
15-year-olds of surprising physical maturity and talent, staged in
Newcastle.

CANADA'S Olympic silver medallist Shawn O'Sullivan
had a scare in his third pro fight when he suffered a bad
cut over the left eye against Marvin McDowell, of
Baltimore.
But welterweight O'Sullivan landed a tremendous
right hand to floor McDowell in the second round.
McDowell, a 24-year-old black fighter, beat the coufit
but the fight was stopped seconds later by British
referee Mike Jacobs after two minutes 16 seconds of
the round.

IT was the year the impossible happened: Roberto
Duran fell face down on the canvas and the referee
didn't even bother to count.
Duran, Stone Hands, one of the greatest lightweight
champions of all time, was at the end of the
road.
We thought he might lose to Thomas Hearhs
when they met in the temporary outdoor arena at
Ceasar's Palace, Las Vegas, on June 15, but no one
believed that Duran would go down like that.

DON CURRY is a fighter's fighter. When the man
they call the Cobra worked out at the Fore Street
gym in Birmingham city centre, the other pros in the
gym stopped to watch.
Natural curiosity, perhaps, but it soon turned to
appreciation. Curry was just going through the
motions — his manager Dave Gorman excluded
press and public from the serious sessions — but his
quality was obvious.

A FEW weeks ago on my Old-Timers' page I reported that
former b a n t am champion Stan Rowan was not too well, and that
a special function was held in his honour by the Merseyside
Ex-Boxers' Association. And the mention of Stan brings to mind
a fight I saw at London's Seymour Hall in December 1946.