Boxing News magazine Download 28.5.1993.pdf

Harvey survives three knockdowns to crush Kelton

 

Angry Rhodes storms out

 

Kostya needs a real test

 

Stone wins in States

 

Jones not in the Leonard class yet

 

COMMONWEALTH featherweight champion Billy
Hardy retained his title and kept his world title
ambitions alive with a hard-earned 12-rounds points
win over former champion Barrington Francis, a
rangy Guyanan now fighting out of Canada. Hardy,
boxing in front of his home fans, had acknowledged
that defeat would almost certainly mark the end of a
long and distinguished career, and there were times
when that seemed a real possibility as he struggled
to get to grips with the tall, skillful and elusive Francis.

 

LAUREL, Maryland's Andy Maynard felt
the repercussions of an early tactical mistake
as he was clubbed to defeat at the
end of the eighth of a bloody and bruising
12-rounder against Toronto's Egerton
Marcus for the NABF light-heavyweight title.

 

PAT BUTLER before he became British welterweight
champion in 1934. Pat recently celebrated
his 80th birthday - and a few days later was at
ringside in his home city of Leicester to see Chris
Pyatt win the WBO middleweight title.

 

THE DUO of Steve Murray and Guy Wild won their
respective weight divisions In the NABC Class C
championships at the Royal Lancaster Hotel to bring
West Ham's collection of titles to eight this season
while the unheralded Courtney Fry could be the
'find' of the season. He beat the more experienced
Tony Dowling, while a North-East foursome of Mark
Smith, Glen Hopkins, Andrew McLean and Karl
Maloney all won.