Boxing News magazine 20.4.1984 Download pdf

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MIDDLEWEIGHT pretenders Jimmy Price and
Errol Christie will probably meet in a major title
bout one day, but for now British fight fans must
content themselves with seeing the young prospects
perform side by side.
Liverpool southpaw Price and Coventry's Christie
appear in joint main events scheduled for 10 rounds on a
Frank Warren-Burt McCarthy promotion at the Alexandra
Pavilion, London, on Wednesday.

T H E youngster sparring in the gym in Kingston, Jamaica,
showed considerable talent but seemed a bit on the
cautious side. H e had a smooth style, picked his shots well
and punched with power, but also seemed obsessed with
avoiding facial damage.
The ring is n o place for cowardice or narcissism, and the
tough crowd in the gym would have quickly sorted out
anyone with those tendencies, but no one picked on this
kid.

IT TOOK just 85 seconds to teach British light-middleweight
champion Jimmy Cable the painful lesson that the gap between good
domestic pros and good Philadelphian pros can sometimes be
unbridgeable.
Cable was counted out by referee Roland Dakin after being
flattened by a sweeping left f r om Buster Drayton. It was the most
shocking setback suffered by any British champion since heavyweight
Jerry Quarry ' s 69-second knockout of Jack Bodell in 1972.

THE HEAVYWEIGHT division, once the figurehead of
boxing, is now a division of mediocrity.
As the heavies go, so does boxing. So now it is u p to the
smaller men from lighter weights to carry the sport on
their shoulders.
The man may be Marvin Hagler, while the division must
be the featherweights. No division at present can match
the depth and talent of the nine stoners, nor can any
division boast such great champions as Eusebio Pedroza
and the newly crowned Wilfredo Gomez.

BRADFIELD Boys, who a few years back were always
among the trophy winners in London Federation championships,
will soon be back in title contention.
A party, launched for a £150,000 appeal to renovate the
72-year-old buliding in Commercial Way, Peckham, was
attended by a number of prominent personalities, including
Councillor Sam King, JP, the Mayor of Southwark and
Harriet Harman, MP.

GERRY BEARD won the
vacant Midlands Area
lightweight title when he
ground down an exhausted
Lee Halford in the eighth of
a scheduled 10-rounder at
the Arden Sporting Club,