Boxing News magazine Download PDF 12.10.1973

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EDDIE NEILSON, the big-hitting Swindon southpaw
heavyweight, swung his way back dramatically
into the eliminator reckoning with a two-round win
over Coventry's Roger Barlow in a sensational
topliner to a smash-hit Sophia Gardens Pavilion
show.

TREVOR FRANCIS, Basingstoke (11-1),
made a triumphant return to British
boxing after two controversial losses in
Australia when he impressively stopped
Welsh m i d d l e w e i g h t c h a m p i o n Mike
McCIuskie, Cardiff (11-11) in the sixth of
a scheduled eight-round contest at the
NSC.

BRITAIN'S first light-middleweight champion, 21-
year-old Larry Paul, will be back in action at Wolverhampton
on November 6 after his scheduled bill
saving appearance at Belle Vue, Manchester yesterday
(Thursday).

THE French radio broadcast of Carlos Monzon and Jean-Claude Bouttier came with
clarity. Roger Menetrey, European welterweight champion, did the inter-round summaries
and for his debut was very concise

REPTON light-heavyweight Johnny Waldron faced Roy
Williams (Canterbury) on the Fairbairn show at Plaistow
Working Men's Club and picked up a points win.

A WELSH select side travelled to Tyneside to face a
North East Counties team on a charity bill in aid of
former professional boxer Billy Charlton at the Mayfair
Suite and finished 10-4 winners.