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CHRIS Finnegan, the 24-
year-old bricklayer who
won the middleweight Gold
Medal in the Mexico Olympics,
and signed professional contract
with manager Sam
Burns, makes his paid debut
on the Anglo-American Club
bill at the Hilton Hotel, Park
Lane, London, on Monday.

HEAVY rain was still pouring
down when the ticket
windows opened at Madison
Square Garden, yet there was
a good crowd on hand for the
fights. It was September 21,
1966, the first show of the
new season, and it was on
national television.
Main event featured Joe
Frazier, the former Olympic
heavyweight c h a m p i o n,
against Oscar Ringo Bonavena,
the Argentine strong
man. Frazier, the one-time
butcher from Philadelphia,
had won every one of his
eleven professional fights by
knockouts and he had promised
to do the same to
Bonavess, as he called Ringo
at the time.
The undercard got the crowd
of 9,069 really warmed up as the
first six fights ended in knockouts,
four in the opening round.

JACK BODELL, the big Swadlincote
southpaw, earned
a crack at Henry Cooper's
British, Empire and European
heavyweight titles when he
beat Welsh champion Carl
Gizzi on promoter Jack Solomons'
tournament at Sophia
Gardens, referee Harry Gibbs
stopping the fight in 2 min. 10
sec. of the second of this scheduled
twelve rounds final
eliminator when Gizzi received
a cut under his eyebrow.