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Boxing News Magazine 1971 Memorabilia
Boxing News Magazine 1971 History
WHEN you talk about brilliant British boxers, the
name Walter McGowan has to come into it. Scottish
pride McGowan not only had class he had
inventiveness.
LONG-HAIRED amateurs, currently due for a shock
MANAGER George Francis rang especially to tell me that
his welterweight Bemie Terrell had been granted a shot at
Ralph Charles' British crown, writes RON OLVER.
ONCE AGAIN Scot John McCluskey, the eight-stone
champion without a single opponent in his own division in
his own country, will box abroad.
FIVE-TIME world champion Emile Griffith
slashed a lacework of cuts around the eyes
of French middleweight champion Nessim
" Max" Cohen and went on to win an easy
ten-round decision at Madison Square
Garden
MUHAMMAD ALI smashed his former sparring
partner, Jimmy Ellis, to defeat in the twelfth and
final round at the Astrodome and paved the way
for a return heavyweight title fight with Joe
Frazier.
partner, Jimmy Ellis, to defeat in the twelfth and
final round at the Astrodome and paved the way
for a return heavyweight title fight with Joe
Frazier.
BERNIE TERRELL, Southern Area welterweight champion.
told me he reckons that 1971 is his year. Next
Sunday he gets married, and in October he tackles
champion Ralph Charles for the British title.
" It's funny how things work out," said Bernie. " Not
so long ago my manager George Francis suggested I
relinquished my Area title, which I did. I was supposed
to defend it against Don Davis, but he became ill, so I
was selected to box for the vacant crown, and 1 won.
" Now I'm fighting for the British title, and this is
wonderful news. On Sunday I get married to Lyn
Gater at All Saints' Church, Edmonton, at 3 pm. We'll
be living in Enfield. Her father is an estate agent, also
my employer.
" Early in September I'll be starting serious training,
for the Charles fight, and my marriage will be an added
incentive for success."
told me he reckons that 1971 is his year. Next
Sunday he gets married, and in October he tackles
champion Ralph Charles for the British title.
" It's funny how things work out," said Bernie. " Not
so long ago my manager George Francis suggested I
relinquished my Area title, which I did. I was supposed
to defend it against Don Davis, but he became ill, so I
was selected to box for the vacant crown, and 1 won.
" Now I'm fighting for the British title, and this is
wonderful news. On Sunday I get married to Lyn
Gater at All Saints' Church, Edmonton, at 3 pm. We'll
be living in Enfield. Her father is an estate agent, also
my employer.
" Early in September I'll be starting serious training,
for the Charles fight, and my marriage will be an added
incentive for success."
ONCE AGAIN Scot John McCluskey, the eight-stone
champion without a single opponent in his own division in
his own country, will box abroad. It happens so often
nowadays that he takes it for granted, and figures that
it's no good waiting patiently at home for fights that may
never materialise. He's a pro, so he's got to go where the
work is if he wants to earn. And on Thursday he'll be in
Melbourne defending his Commonwealth flyweight crown
against Australian title-holder Henry Nissen.
John's wife Evelyn recently gave birth to a son. " Let's
hope he eventually weighs more than eight stone,"
cracked John. But this event has given John added incentive,
not only to keep his Commonwealth title, but to
chase that elusive European crown that has evaded him
for so many years.
champion without a single opponent in his own division in
his own country, will box abroad. It happens so often
nowadays that he takes it for granted, and figures that
it's no good waiting patiently at home for fights that may
never materialise. He's a pro, so he's got to go where the
work is if he wants to earn. And on Thursday he'll be in
Melbourne defending his Commonwealth flyweight crown
against Australian title-holder Henry Nissen.
John's wife Evelyn recently gave birth to a son. " Let's
hope he eventually weighs more than eight stone,"
cracked John. But this event has given John added incentive,
not only to keep his Commonwealth title, but to
chase that elusive European crown that has evaded him
for so many years.
EVERY NOW and then a fighter comes along to punch holes
in one of boxing's oldest cliches, " thev never come back." In
1946 it was a banjo-eyed little battleir from Golborne named
Peter Kane. Three years earlier, the bottom dropped out of
Kane's world.
He was serving in the Royal Air Force at the time when a
medical examination revealed a loose retina of the eye. He
was seen by the finest specialists and the verdict was always
the same. He must never box again!
For a fighter that is the death sentence, the big knockout,
the long count.
For Peter Kane it meant three years away from the ring.
He had no kicks really, after all he had been a professional
nine years despite being only twenty-five years old and he had
been flyweight champion of the world.
But the pull of the ring was still exerting a tremendous
influence on him and when he got out of the Services in
1946, he went to see another specialist. His case was studied
from every angle and to Peter's delight, a hopeful glimmer
appeared through the darkness. He could be helped, provided
he was willing to help himself.
The delicate operation was a success and Peter followed the
specialist's orders to the letter. .Came the great day when he
was able to climb through the ropes, the thrill of boxing again
tempered with nagging doubts as to whether or not he could
overcome that ancient boxing adage, " they never come back!
He would give it a damn good try anyway.
He teamed up with old champion Nel Tarleton as his
manager and began the comeback. In August, 1946, he beat
Jackie Hughes at Brighton on a disqualification. Ron Bissell
lasted two rounds at Cardiff,
in one of boxing's oldest cliches, " thev never come back." In
1946 it was a banjo-eyed little battleir from Golborne named
Peter Kane. Three years earlier, the bottom dropped out of
Kane's world.
He was serving in the Royal Air Force at the time when a
medical examination revealed a loose retina of the eye. He
was seen by the finest specialists and the verdict was always
the same. He must never box again!
For a fighter that is the death sentence, the big knockout,
the long count.
For Peter Kane it meant three years away from the ring.
He had no kicks really, after all he had been a professional
nine years despite being only twenty-five years old and he had
been flyweight champion of the world.
But the pull of the ring was still exerting a tremendous
influence on him and when he got out of the Services in
1946, he went to see another specialist. His case was studied
from every angle and to Peter's delight, a hopeful glimmer
appeared through the darkness. He could be helped, provided
he was willing to help himself.
The delicate operation was a success and Peter followed the
specialist's orders to the letter. .Came the great day when he
was able to climb through the ropes, the thrill of boxing again
tempered with nagging doubts as to whether or not he could
overcome that ancient boxing adage, " they never come back!
He would give it a damn good try anyway.
He teamed up with old champion Nel Tarleton as his
manager and began the comeback. In August, 1946, he beat
Jackie Hughes at Brighton on a disqualification. Ron Bissell
lasted two rounds at Cardiff,