Boxing News magazine Download PDF 23.6.1972

Boxing News 1972 Memorabilia

HONEST Jack Bodell and trier Danny McAlinden, neither of whom cuts much ice at world level, can, nevertheless, provide a memorable battle for the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles at Birmingham on Tuesday.

CARLOS MONZON, Argentina's iron man, retained his world middleweight title by battering French idol Jean- Claude Bouttier into defeat after 12 rounds at the open air Colombes Stadium.

RALPH CHARLES'S surrender of the British welterweight title has left Coventry's Bobby Arthur with mixed feelings. On one hand, the 24-year-old Arthur was looking for- ward to stamping his mark on the boxing world at the expense of Charles.

IN YEARS around the ringside one makes a great many friends. Among mine is a husky young giant who at fights or sports dinners genially slaps me on the back and offers a vice-like handshake. His hand is as big as a York ham.
Richard Alexander Richardson is the name, born in Newport and now at 38 prosperous in his business interests with his home at Thames-side Staines.

IRELAND, with hopes boosted high by a recent very successful U.S. tour, were taught a salutary lesson that the road to Olympic titles will be a gruelling one, when Spain hammered them 7-3 before an 18,000 crowd at the bullring here.

NICKY GARGANO is the perfect advertisement for boxing. Today, at 38, Gargano has hardly a mark to show for his long career (about 190 con- tests, lost nine) against the world's best amateurs.

BEACONS were to have been lit on the Welsh hills
on the night of June 15, 1967 had Howard Winstone
punched the world featherweight title from Mexican
Vicente Saldivar in his second attempt.
Thousands of Welshmen flocked from the valleys
and mining townships to Ninian Park football
ground, Cardiff for this 15 rounds battle, only to
see the Merthyr idol lose on points.