Boxing News magazine Download PDF 9.11.1973

Boxing news 1973WATT CHASES KEN FOR REMATCHFRANCIS LICKS BELL BY HUGE MARGINSTAND-IN GOROSITO CAN TEST WOOD

CHRIS FINNEGAN, former triple light-heavyweight champion from Iver,
Bucks, replaces John Conteh against American Mike Quarry over 10 rounds
on Tuesday's big Wembley bill, writes GRAHAM HOUSTON.

DANNY McALINDEN, the likeable British and Commonwealth
heavyweight champion who has had such a
miserable year so far, figures t o start his comeback with
a win at Wembley on Tuesday when he-faces Buffalo
trial-horse Tony Ventura over 10 rounds.

UNBEATEN Denver heavyweight prospect Duane Bobick
extended his record to 13 straight wins, all by the short
route, when he stopped veteran Philadelphian Roger
Russell at the start of the fifth.

FORMER two-time world feather champion Willie
Pep likes to look back on the days when he was
fighting, but feels that boxing today is far from
dead.

MANDO RAMOS, the Mexican-American from
California who copped the lightweight crown at the
age of 20 and grossed over half a million dollars in
a nine-year career, has reached the end of the road,
apparently without a dime to his name  at the
tender age of 24.

MICK DOWLING (Drimnagh, Dublin), Ireland's big-hitting
bantamweight champion, had his first contest of the
season on the St John's club dinner-cabaret show at the
Parkway Motel, Limerick, and started the campaign with
an impressive win over Seigia Pala (West Germany).

BRITISH heavyweights Tim Wood, the unbeaten
Leicester prospect, and Liverpool's Billy Aird both
meet US-based opponents at the World Sporting
Club on Monday