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Boxing News Magazine 1975  Memorabilia

Boxing News Magazine 1975  History

 

THE British lightweight title vacated last year by Ken Buchanan is in good hands

again. Blond southpaw Jim Watt regained the championship he had held during

Buchanan's previous "exile" in 1972-1973 with an impressive, confident

seventh-round dismissal of London-based Scot Johnny Cheshire

 

BACK-AGAIN ALAN WRECKS DUNN IN THE FOURTH

 

Simmonds flies back to Canada

 

AFTER five years of frustration, the big-money chances are at last within the

reach of Liverpool heavyweight Billy Aird. If he licks Nigerian dangerman

Ngozika Ekwelum in their eight-rounder at the Twentieth Century Sporting Club,

 

WHEN GUTSY DOWNES WAS CLAWED BY THE 'TIGER

 

NORWAY'S Sven-Erik Paulsen retained his European

junior lightweight title by easily outpointing Domingo

Giminez, of Spain, over 15 rounds

 

A QUERY about that fine featherweight from Guyana, Cliff Anderson. Reader J.

Christie of Manchester wants to know if he was the first coloured fighter to

challenge for a British title

 

SEAN McLEAN (Eltham) is a lad who successfully

combines boxing and studying. At the Cafe Royal he

showed just how well he does this by lifting the London

Federation of Boys' Clubs championships, Class C 63.5kg

 

ENGLAND international GRAHAM MOUGHTON entered the ring for his first competitive

action since the World Championships in August, and finished a decisive winner over

COLIN POWERS (Seventh Feathers) on the Repton buffet show at York Hall

 

PLYMOUTH MAYFLOWER feather IAN McKINNON scored the best win of his brief

senior career on the Devon Sporting Club promotion at the New Grand Hotel

 

IT fell to Notting Hill middles favourite Peter Cain
and Islington's Mick Hussey to close Shoreditch
Town Hall, and this they did in a bout in the best
Shoreditch tradition — tough, uncompromising and
bloody. There could have been little in it when
Hussey's corner retired their man at the end of the
fourth round with a badly-gashed left eyelid.

 

HE was always hard to figure out, that Max Baer. Everyone
said he had all the tools to be an all-time great, yet he never
made it. He often would "do his own thing" as the saying
goes and liked nothing better than to have attention or a
crowd around him. Long before Muhammad Ali came along
he was the talk of all the media and everyone near and far
knew of the "Livermore Larruper." People flocked around
him like bees to honey and there was never a dull moment.