Boxing News magazine Download PDF 26.5.1972

Boxing News 1972 Memorabilia

THE matching of Joe Bugner with an unknown American fighter in order
to continue his comeback is ludicrous to put it mildly. Bugner is now rated
as number 23 in one world ratings. But who is Mark Hans? The Wembley
boxing programme made no mention of the man.

CLARK stands over Frenchman, Marc Van Dornme, at Albert Hall in October
1968. Johnny forced Van Domme to retire at the end of five rounds, but
described the battle as one of his hardest.

SOUTH AFRICA is seeking to stage a clash of its world class light-heavyweights
Pierre Fourie and Sarel Aucamp. As South Africa's most soughtafter
bout, a meeting of the two can draw one of the biggest gates in
history for an all-Springbok battle,

CRAWLEY middleweight Alan Minter put himself right in line for Olympic selection by
crushing ABA champion Frankie Lucas in two sensational rounds on the combined
South Norwood-Sir Philip Game show at the Top Ranke Suite.

THE North Eastern Counties ABA convincingly beat a Danish select by six bouts
to three on a show Dromoted bv Hull Fish Trades ABC.
All five Hull boxers in the nine-man Counties team won their bouts, in a match
where only one contest went the distance.

NO CHAMPION likes to be beaten, and Tommy Wright,
the 1971 ABA featherweight king from Doncaster Plant
Works Club, is no exception. Going out of this year's
championships to exciting Edinburgh star, Vernon Sollas
naturally disappointed him, but rightly he does not regard
the defeat as a major catastrophe.