Boxing News magazine 18.2.1983 Download pdf

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AFTER the WBC reduced world title bouts from 15 to 12
rounds, a boxing beat buddy told me that maybe it wasn't
such a bad idea after all because the Gene Tunney-Jack
Dempsey tide bouts in 1926-1927 were 10-rounders.
He changed his mind once I explained the situation to
| him. A glance at the second look shows that 15 round tide
bouts have been around for 100 years.
Changing the hallowed tradition can have an adverse
affect on the sport.
When the idea of using boxing gloves was innovated, the
sport was outlawed in some states.
When they legalised it, these same states set arbitrary
limits on the number of rounds for different reasons.
California must have considered the manly art exceedingly
dangerous because they limited all bouts to four and
later, six rounds.

I KNOW now what I've got to do to become champion
of the world", Tony Sibson told the morning-after press
conference with wry humour: "I've got to improve".
Twelve hours earlier, Marvin Hagler had hammered
that lesson home in six one-sided rounds, retaining his
undisputed world middleweight tide when referee Carlos
Padilla of Las Vegas waved Sibson to his corner after the
challenger had been floored for the second time in the
round.

FIGHTING under the handicap of an injured right hand in
the closing rounds, Don "Cobra" Curry won the vacant
WBA welterweight title with a unanimous, blood-spattered
15-round points win over the Orient champion Jun Sok
Hwang, of Korea.
Curry, born and bred in Fort Worth and roared on by his
hometown crowd, used stiff left jabs and hooks to pile up
points.

Camacho strengthens
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA - February 12: Exciting,
undefeated HECTOR CAMACHO, seeking a crack at
the world title as either a junior-lightweight or a lightweight,
strengthened his claims by knocking out JOHN
MONTES of Los Angeles after 74 seconds of the first
round in their scheduled 10-rounder.
Camacho, a 20-year-old southpaw from New York's
Spanish Harlem, put Montes down and out with a
short left uppercut through the middle. Montes went
down slowly, winding up on his back as his legs gave
way under him.
Somehow Montes managed to pull himself to his feet just

LEADERS of Ardoyne Youth Club were amazed at
the response they got when they asked for help to
form a boxing section, for one of those to step
forward was former British and European bantamweight
champion Freddie Gilroy, along with Sean
Brown, a former Irish international, and Frankie
McCann, ex-Ulster champion, as well as Pat Tear
and Andy Monaghan.
At the moment they only have novices, but under
such expert tutors, they are coming along nicely.
They train on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
evenings.

BLOOMSBURY promoter Frank Warren phoned to
express his disagreement with our report of the show
when his flyweight Keith Wallace won the Commonwealth
title at Bloomsbury.
"The show didn't start 40 minutes late," Warren says. "It
wasn't an 8pm start but an 8.30 start, as it said on the advertisements.
"We did have a second bell on hand after the first one was
stolen but the timekeeper refused to use it. We then sent out
for the other one which was why the show was 10 minutes late
starting.