Boxing News magazine 23.12.1988 Download pdf

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FOR SHEER pride and determination, nothing could
surpass Gary Cooper's stirring defence of his British
light-middleweight title against Gary Stretch at t h e Rivermead
Leisure Centre, Reading, on a Frank Warren
p r o m o t i o n on September 7.

L I F E — boxing life that is — could begin again at 35 for
Dwight Muhammad Qawi, who, they say, looked strong,
s h a r p and dangerous in his n o n - TV t h i r d - r o u n d blowout of
Olian Alexander, the California state cruiser champ. Pity
t h a t only a small crowd of about 1,500 t u r n e d up for new
p r o m o t e r A l f r e d o Machio at the 10,000-capaciy Convention
Hall in Philadelphia.

IN and out of t h e ring Donnie Hood is a
man at peacc with himself.
He has come through classic, if on the
grand scale of things minor, b a t t l e s with
Brian Holmes and G r a h am O ' M a l l e y to
t h e brink of a British bantamweight title
fight. He's a fighter capable of intense
c o n c e n t r a t i o n ; disciplined, fit, b r a v e and
with a good technique.

SEFTON ABC's Frankie Sands took the Petros Trophy for
the best performance of the night when he outpointed Des
Collins of Walsall on the Sefton tournament at Our Lady
Queen of Peace church club at Litherland.
Collins, a national junior ABA champion, had outpointed
Frankie in last season's semi-finals, but Sands was
in superb form this time around to gain sweet revenge in
all-action three-rounder.

B O X I N G is full of stories of near-misses and no one came nearer to
winning a world championship f r om these islands than Dave Charnley.
Older r e a d e r s will r e m e m b e r the disappointment in 1959 when he went to
Houston to fight the American, Joe Brown.