Boxing News magazine Download PDF 12.1.1973

Boxing news1973 FINNEGAN MEETS TOP AMERICANMinter can blast DwyerBOXING NEWS BRITISH RATINGS FOREMAN NOW HAS HELP FROM SANDY SADDLER

EVERY TIME Henry Cooper writes about Joe
Bugner, he tries to belittle him. Can't he forgive
Joe for beating him?

JOHN CONTEH looms as a heavyweight threat after jusi 16 lights. Controversy may have clouded his true ability. At his best he has looked sensational.

JERRY QUARRY, California's craggy heavyweight whose career looked finished six months ago, came pounding back to halt Randy Neumann in seven rounds at Madison Square Garden.

KOICHI WAJIMA, Japan (10-12), retained his world junior middleweight title by battling to a disputed 15-round draw with Brazilian Miguel de Oliveira (10-13) before 11000 fans at the Municipal Gymnasium.

OF all the Britons who tried for the heavy- weight championship of the world, none faced as formidable a task as Tommy Farr. And none made a braver try.

CARLOS MONZON will defend the world middleweight title against EMILE GRIFFITH in San Remo during Marc h or April. Final details have yet to be arranged. If successful it will be turn of JEAN-CLAUDE BOUTTIER and this should ring down the curtain on the activities of the Argentinian

NEW Welsh lightweight hope, 17-year-old Wayne Bennett (New Tredegar), scored an upset when he clearly outpointed Commonwealth Games silver medallist John Gillan (Aberdeen), to help Wales beat Scotland 6-5 at the Ocean Club.

FOR British boxing the Munich Olympics will be remembered for so much more than three bronze medals. Team spirit and the willingness to help each other played such an important part, and it . is with this same enthusiasm that the A.B.A. team left for the United States on Monday

family from Portsmouth's Waterfooville club take some beat- ing. Father Gwyn, pictured here with his boys, Is one of the most respected trainers and matchmakers in the busi- ness; Munich bronze medallist Ralph (left) and brother Wayne, both now flyweights always feature prominently in Boxing News ratings, and this season Gwyn junior has burst on to the scene.

LARRY PAUL, Wolverhampton's talented and controversial A.B.A. light-middleweight champion has turned professional with Willenhall promoter Alex Griffiths.
The move has been on the cards since Paul's omission from the Munich Olympics team and it is a decision that is backed 100 per cent by his Midlands amateur colleagues. " Let's be fair," said Griffiths, " the boy had a raw deal at the time of the Olympics.