Boxing News magazine Download PDF 25.8.1972

Boxing News 1972 Memorabilia

BRITAIN'S nine-man Olympic squad take on the rest of the world in
Munich from Sunday and our chances of gold medal success are, I fear, far
from bright.

SINCE the Helsinki Olympics in 1952, when they won a staggering five
golds, the United States have never quite delivered the goods in Olympic
boxing. They have always promised much, but the last four Olympiads
have produced only eight golds between them — Pete Rademacher and
Jimmy Boyd (1956), Cassius Clay, Edward Crook and Wilbur McClure
(1960), Joe Frazier (1964) and George Foreman and Ronnie Harris (1968).

even though they are competing on their own soil. If they come out of the
Games with a bronze or silver then they will be well satisfied.

WORLD middleweight champion Carlos Monzon
of Argentina turned on another showing of his
destructive power when he took only five rounds
to crush his latest challenger, Denmark's Tom
Bogs, before a 16,000 crowd at the Idraetsparken
soccer stadium.

TONY MUNDINE, Australia's Commonwealth middleweight champion,
hammered to his 12th successive victory by stopping

DANNY McALINDEN'S first fight as British heavyweight
champion may now be in Dublin in October, in place of a
Commonwealth title battle with Canada's George Chuvalo.