Boxing News magazine 18.3.1983 Download pdf

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GENUINE punching power can never be taught — and above
everything it's that which makes Tom Collins the best lightheavyweight
in the country.
A single, sense-numbing right hand ruined the championship
hopes of Birmingham challenger Antonio Harris towards the end
of the sixth round at Solihull Civic Hall.
It was 27-year-old Collins' second successful defence of the
British title he won just 12 months ago and brought him a
Lonsdale Belt to keep.

HUDDERSFIELD'S Prince Rodney
climbed off the canvas to hammer Sheffield
star Brian Anderson to a sensational
fifth round defeat in their scheduled 12
rounds final eliminator for the British
light-middleweight title held
by Anderson's stablemate,
Herol Graham.

EUROPEAN and Commonwealth welterweight champion Colin Jones will be pinning
his faith on his savage punching as he goes into the Reno, Nevada, ring against
unbeaten Milton McCrory for the vacant WBC welterweight title tomorrow (Saturday).
The precedents for Jones are not good. When a good young British fighter squares
off against an American counterpart, the Americans generally win. Carlos Palomino
just took John H. Stracey apart at Wembley, having come here as a strongly unfancied
challenger.

LARRY HOLMES becomes in effect his own
promoter when he defends his WBC heavyweight title
against Frenchman Lucien Rodriguez, the European
champion, at Scranton Pennysylvania on March 27.

THE light-heavyweight roll of honour contains names to
excite the imagination: Moore, Foster, Conn, Loughran
and, further back, Carpentier and Philadelphia Jack
O'Brian.
Some, arguably, were a class above Michael Spinks and
Dwight Braxton (or, to use his Islamic name, Dwight Muhammad
Qawi), who battle for the undisputed world championship
at Atlantic City tonight - Friday, March 18.
But no individual bout in the 80-year history of the division
has, it could be debated, held greater promise for
dramatic events, or been evenly balanced, than the one
tonight.

LAST year's losing featherweight finalist Dave
Kenny (Holy Name ABC) made an early exit from the
1983 ABA title hunt as Rochdale battler Kevin Taylor
beat him on a unanimous decision in the finals of
the North West Counties championships.
A packed crowd at the Queen Elizabeth Hall saw an
all-action thriller with Kenny, the more polished performer,
unable to match the determination and nonstop
aggression of Taylor.

ALAN MASTERSON 1981 ABA light-flyweight finalist,
proved the unluckiest loser of the championship as he was
eliminated by fellow-club member and 1982 ABA lightflyweight
finalist John McBride in the flyweight final of the
North East division of the London ABA's.
His fight with McBride could have been very interesting but
was halted prematurely halfway through the second round due
to a bad cut over his right eye. A series of good left hooks from
McBride opened the wound.