Boxing News magazine Download 16.7.1993.pdf

Head clash stops Busby

 

Murphy the brave giveshis all but it's not enough

 

Piper gets the run around

 

Defeat that moulded the Golden Boy

 

Mayweather's back in the picture

 

Tsziu makes it nine

 

Harding next for Ashley

 

OSCAR DE LA HOYA is the new golden
boy of boxing, blasting his way out of
the Los Angeles ghetto with an Olympic
Gold medal and an unbeaten
professional career. He talks exclusively
to Claude Abrams on pages 10-13.

 

ANY lingering reservations about the quality of Welshman Steve
Robinson were put to one side after a successful first defence of
his WBO featherweight title against British champion Sean Murphy
in front of his vocal hometown fans at the National Ice Rink.
Just where Robinson (9st) stands in "world" terms will become
clearer in September when he puts his title on the line against former
holder Colin McMillan, but for the time being we must give him
the benefit of the doubt that he has risen in class and confidence
and award him just praise for a job well done.

 

A LOT of boxers enter the ring to their own theme tune these days and Hackney's
Paul "Scrap Iron" Ryan is no exception. The unbeaten lightweight shuns the use
of a dressing gown, perches an old cloth cap on his "nut" and jauntily strides down
the ringside aisle to the strains of "Any Old Iron", much to the amusement of those
punters fresh to his presence.

 

NEIL HADDOCK'S defence of the British superfeatherweight
championship against Manchester's
Steve Walker on July 25 will provide
compulsive viewing for a shadow looming ominously
in the background.
Floyd Havard, Haddock's Welsh rival, has
spent 18 months in the wilderness. He staunchly
believes he is the "uncrowned champion"
and hopes to prove it by regaining the title he
surrendered to Bradford's John Doherty some
four years ago.