Boxing News magazine 8.5.1987 Download pdf

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SWANSEA feather Peter Harris, marking time after the withdrawal of eliminator
opponent John Farrell with a shoulder injury, duly despatched St Helen's
journeyman Albert Parr in three rounds of Eddie Thomas's replacement top-liner
at the Newport Leisure Centre.
The Angular Parr (8st lO'/ilbs) used his long reach to score well in the opening
exchanges of a scheduled eight-threes, keeping on the move as the red-haired
Welshman stalked him. pondering the problem. Harris (9st libs) threw few
punches and the round belonged to the visitor.
But it was his only period of success. In the second Peter began to bring his right
had into play and Parr was looking increasingly vulnerable, his close-cropped head
being jolted back time and again.

J O H N LYON of St Helens made amateur boxing
history when he became the only man this century to win
six ABA titles.
The 25-year-old glass factory furnaceman, in defending
his flyweight crown against soldier John McLean
successfully, equalled the 94-year-old record of Joseph
Steers, the only other man to achieve the feat.
But Lyon's achievement is that much more creditable
than that of Steers who, under a different championships
format and in the sport's infancy, twice won two titles in
t h e same year.