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BUGNER FLOPS!DANNY COMES BACK WITH A BANG FINNEGAN PROVES HE'S NOT FINISHED Stracey hammers gallant GervaisLET'S HAVE SOME CREDIT FOR KEVIN WHITE!Monzon venue confirmed

IT was back to the old, familiar story as Joe Bugner,
Britain's European heavyweight champion, fumbled
and faltered his way to a 10 rounds points win over
American Mac Foster in a dreary main event at the
Empire Pool.

KEVIN WHITE, the blockbusting welterweight
from Wells in Somerset, must be highly praised for
his hard-earned advancement to the top 10 of the
British ratings.

THE record books of the future will show that Bunny
Sterling's second attempt in 23 months to win the
European middleweight title ended in failure when he
was outpointed over 15 rounds by the Italian champion
Elio Calcabrini.

THERE are those who consider Australia's Tony
Mundine a great middleweight, to be ranked with
his illustrious countrymen Les Darcy and Dave
Sands. Others are of the opinion that Mundine is
a false alarm whose star is already waning.

WORLD light-heavyweight champion Bob Foster, of the US, has insisted on a
" no foul" rule to be in effect when he defends his title against South Africa's
Pierre Fourie in Johannesburg on December 1.

NORTH WESTERN Counties celebrated Guy Fawkes
Night with a bang when they almost wiped out a West
German selected side from Dusseldorf and Hanover on a
big charity show presented by Droylsden ABC at the
Poco-a-Poco Theatre Club.

HARTCLIFFE'S former A.B.A. light-welter finalist
Malcolm Jones came close to a shock points defeat
against Swansea's Welsh international Alan Copp
on his club's show at the Community Centre.

ABA middleweight champion Frankie Lucas (Sir Philip
Game) Dunched solidly to take a unanimous decision over
Les Harriet of Pontnewynydd on the Metropolitan Police
" B " Division tournament at the Royal Garden Hotel