Boxing News magazine Download PDF 9.7.1971

Boxing News 1971Boxing News MemorabiliaTed and Freddie Mills

Benny Leonard is the greatest name in Jewish sporting history. This former world champion
is considered by a great many students of the sport of boxing as the finest
lightweight of all time. Some reckon Joe Gans was the best r»ine-stone nine pounds
fighter that ever lived. But it's fairly safe to say that that accolade belongs to one
or them. Leonard, who is featured in Boxing News next week, is pictured, right, with
Richie Mitchell, the Milwaukee Marvel, whom Benny beat in six rounds.

TOM BOGS, of Denmark,
former European middle and
cruiser champ, must surely
forget all about his plans to
tackle Argentinian Carlos
Monzon for the world middleweight
title after Tom's
somewhat indifferent display
against Juarez De Lima
of Brazil. Bogs was outpointed,
and what made
matters worse was that De
Lima had only come in as
a late substitute for British
and Commonwealth champion
Bunny Sterling.

JOE LOUIS once told me I knew more about him than he did.
Small wonder, for here was one of sport's legends in his
own life-time, a fighter exposed to the masses as few others
were, every detail of his rise from the obscurity of a cabin in
Alabama to the richest prize in the world of sport, the
heavyweight championship. He was more than just a fighter,
he was a folk hero to his people and the Negro race never had
a finer ambassador

WHEN you talk about great British fighters, Dave Charnley
has to come high on any list. He was one of the best of
the 1950s and 1960s — and probably the all-time favourite
among my generation of fight-goers.
Charnley never won a world title but he was high in
world class for around seven years. He could have been
champion. Dave had the equipment but not, sadly, the luck.