Boxing News magazine 22.4.1983 Download pdf

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I've never been hit so hard
says battered Penprase
BARRY McGUIGAN did the expected as he won the vacant British
featherweight title, but the ease and speed of his two rounds stoppage of
Vernon Penprase established him as one of the brightest world tide
hopes in the domestic game.
Penprase had never been stopped as a professional and had been eight
rounds with former British bantamweight champion Joey Feeney in his
last fight. But McGuigan seemed to toy with him before flooring him
twice and halting him with just 10 seconds of the second of the scheduled
12-rounder left.

A COUPLE of weeks ago we spotlighted a boxer (Cornelius
Boza-Edwards) who was, we felt, being penalised by the
misapplication of the rules - in his case, those of the WBC.
This week, it's a case of a man being penalised through the
perfectly correct, but morally unfair, application of the EBU
rules - British and Commonwealth middleweight champ
Roy Gumbs.

Back in 1980, America's amateur officials claimed that the team they had for the
Olympics was as strong — if not stronger than — the team which collected five gold
medals in Montreal.
Unfortunately that seemingly impossible claim can never be proved — or disproved
- due to the United States boycott of the Moscow games.
One eventual method of comparing the two teams will be the final success of each
individual member in the professional ranks, which will provide us with a pointer
even if the respective merits cannot be proved.

WITH six of last year's ABA champions now professionals, the subsequent
decline in standards was evident in the British ABA semi-finals at
the Guild Hall.
That 11 of the 23 bouts (there was one bye in the middleweight
division) were settled inside schedule, and there was only one split
decision, also reinforces the widespread English submission that, for the
past decade the Scots and Welsh get a too cushy ride to this stage.
But by the same token, with the six departed ABA champions all being
English, the void was filled with eager new faces included five promising
Celts - three Scottish and two Welsh. And for Scotdsh amateur boxing,
which has been in the doldrums for several seasons, the overall result was
encouraging; for two of Scotland's winners, flyweight Pat Clinton and
feather Peter Bradley, should start favourites for the tides at Wembley
on May 6.