Boxing News magazine 27.5.1988 Download pdf

Boxing News magazine 27.5.1988 Download pdf
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THE kings are dead, long live the kings!
Youth and ambition proved triumphant on Frank
Warren's double championship bill amid the bedlam of a
packed Afan Lido, with unbeaten challengers collecting
the first titles of what, in both cases, promise to be
glittering careers.
Local hero Floyd Havard finally brought Pat Cowdell
face to face with the calendar, his clubbing fists felling
the champion a f t e r 21 seconds of t h e eighth round with a
finality that prompted the Midlander to announce his
retirement.

HACKNEY'S Ivan Joseph survived a rocky first session to
score a controversial fifth-round stoppage of old rival Barry
Ellis (Burnt Oak) in a scheduled heavyweight eight-threes
at the National Sporting Club.

CANADA'S blond banger Donny Lalonde. who won the World
Boxing Council light-heavyweight title in spectacular style by
knocking out Eddie Davis in Trinidad, is back in the Caribbean
island for a tough title defence on Sunday.
Lalonde takes on local hero Leslie Stewart outdoors at the
National Stadium in Port of Spain on Sunday afternoon in a fight
that's being televised back to America over the CBS network.

T H A T terrific fight for the vacant International
Boxing Federation welterweight title
between Simon Brown and Tyrone Trice
was a good argument in favour of keeping
the 15-round distance for world title bouts,
though not from Trice's point of view.
Brown, the Jamaican from Washington
DC, was behind on two of the judges'
scorecards after 12 rounds. So under WBC
and WBA rules he would have
lost the fight on points.

A SUPERB second round win by Belfast teenager Wayne
McCullough highlighted a historic victory for Ireland over
Cuba by six bouts to three at the National Stadium.
While it must be admitted right away that this was not the
best, or even second best, team the Cubans could produce,
with not one national champion included, it still rates as a
highly prestigious success for the Irish.