Boxing News magazine Download PDF 16.6.1972

Boxing News 1972 Memorabilia

FRENCH fight-hero Jean-Claude Bouttier, boosted by
training in the States, figures to make life tough for Argentine
iron man Carlos Monzon in their world middleweight
title fight at the Colombes Stadium, Paris tomorrow

GERMANY'S Jurgen Blin got off the floor to wrest the
European heavyweight title from Spanish strong man Jose
Urtain over 15 gruelling rounds at the Sports Palace.

WE WERE 3,000 feet over the Scottish lowlands. Henry
Cooper and I were chatting as the plane from Renfrew
nosed towards London when I asked: " Which fight, Henry,
do you reckon was your hardest?

MODEST, self effacing Basil Sylvester Sterling, 24-year-old Jamaican, will
fly out to his native Kingston next month when civic dignitaries as part
of his welcome will solemnly and formally hand him the keys of their
city.

DICK McTAGGART . . . the name has a magic ring about it even today.
McTaggart, the crew-cut southpaw Scot, might just have been the greatest
British amateur of all time

TOMMY WRIGHT (Doncaster Plant), the 1971 ABA
featherweight champion, outpointed Hull's tough Ray Blowman
on the Hull Boy's Club dinner tournament at Nottingham.

ALAN RUDKIN, British and Commonwealth bantam
champ, may shortly make an official announcement of his
future in the ring. It is expected this will reveal his intention
to quit, after a career that has lasted 10 years.

JOHNNY FRANKHAM,
Reading (12-84) survived a
cut left eyelid to draw with
unheralded black American
Eddie Duncan, Philadelphia
(12-12) over eight rounds at
the Anglo-American Sporting
Club, reports Graham
Houston.