Boxing News magazine Download PDF 5.1.1973

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MAX BAER could have been one of the greats. He had the talent, but he preferred
the high life rather than the training regime.

HE HAD the hardest right hand in ring history

and the most beautifully proportioned body of any

heavyweight champion. Up until the era of
Muhammad Ali, he was the ring's most colourful
showman.

WALES has always had a fervency in support of its fighters since the days
of immortal Jimmy Wilde. In the valleys and hills they would joyously have
lit beacons had Brian Curvis brough t the world welter weight title to Wales
on the night of September 22, 1964.

SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick: Canada intends to
stage its own light for the British Commonwealth
heavy weight title because, it is claimed, organisers
in Britain have ignored the claims of Canadian
champion George Chuvalo for ten years.

JOHN McCLUSKEY'S Losing challenge to Fritz Chervet might well have
marked the last British challenge for the European flyweight title.
Sid Smith began the fifty-nine year old saga in 1913, and twelve British
mites held the Continental title until modern living conditions sealed the
fate of a class that had been great by world standards.

SCOTTISH lightweight star Alan Buchanan (right) and
Ralph Evans, the Olympic light fly bronze medallist
have both been forced to pull out of next Tuesday's
Wales - Scotland amateur international in Cardiff.
Buchanan has flu and is replaced by Aberdeen's John
Gillan. Evans has lost his battle with the scales and
has accepted that he is now a fully fledged fly. Their
are now two contests biled at bantam with Bryn
Griffiths (Rhondda) in for Wales.

IRELAND'S boxer of the past year? We plump solidly for 23-year-old Derry
flyweight Neil McLoughlin (St. Eugene's). And, we give him that confident
vote because he backed up his well proven skills and class with an impressive
record of consistency.