Boxing News magazine Download 18.10.1991.pdf

SHOWDOWN! MORRISON v MERCER

 

Feliciello wins a crowd pleaser

 

Mitchell likely to give up IBF title

 

Perez claims his second world title

 

Old soldier Mercer can grind down the Iron Duke

 

Swift in line for WBO shot

 

ALL the world title hopes of Manchester's Pat "Black Flash" Barrett
hung precariously in the balance as he made a shaky start to his third
European light-welterweight title defence but, as he's done so often in
the past, the 24-year-old champion turned the fight with his big punch.
The crowd at the G-Mex, who had turned out to see Barrett fight at
home for the first time since June 1990, were almost as stunned as the
champion in the first round when a long right hand from experienced
Dane Racheed Lawal alarmingly dazed Barrett. But Pat, once again,
showed tremendous hitting power to blast back and drop Lawal in the
third before stopping him on his feet in the fourth.

 

RONNIE CARROLL gets the best chance he'll ever have of
winning a title when he meets fellow-Glaswegian J o e Kelly
for the vacant British bantamweight crown at their city's St
Andrews Sporting Club on Tuesday (October 22).
Ronnie goes into the fight comforted by the knowledge
that he has beaten Kelly before, having dumped then-ABA
champion Kelly out of the Scottish semi-finals in 1983.
Neither man can be said to be at their peak, Kelly coming
into this fight off two straight defeats while Carroll has lost
three of his last four.