Boxing News magazine Download PDF10.8.1973

Boxing news1973CARDIFF FIGHT-NIGHTFRAZIER COULDN'TCOOPER VICTORYFlint joins the Lawless stableCONTEH LOOKS TO WORLD CHANCEWORLD CHANCE

PHIL MATTHEWS is back — and how! Any doubts
on that score were crushed when Matthews (12-7)
knocked out Welsh heavyweight champion Dennis tvoth (13-0) in 2 min 29 sec of the first round at the
ophia Gardens Pavilion.

PIERRE FOURIE, 30-year-old South African light-heavyweight champion, was
due to leave here yesterday (Thursday) to challenge America's Bob Foster for
the world title in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on August 21.

AMERICAN boxing had a big shock when Henry Cooper went into the
Wembley ring in the autumn of 1958 to outpoint Zora Folley, of Arizona who
was all set and waiting to fight Floyd Patterson for the heavyweight cham
pionship of the world.

ENGLAND bantartiweight Jimmy Flint became the fourth Repton boxer
to join the Terry Lawless stable this yeaf- when he signed professional on
Tuesday.

SCOTLAND'S light-flyweight champion John Bambrick, the only British
boxer to return from the European Championship^ with a medal tells
Boxing Nfews how he wants to add a Commofiwealth medal to his haul.

OVER THE PAST twd weeks, we have looked
at two of the great finals from the 1968 ABA
Championships-Tottoh v Whelan and Blake
v Imrie. Besides those two pulsating contests,
there' were several other action-packed finals,
and the standard of boxing left little to be desired,
sired.