Boxing News magazine Download 16.5.1969.pdf

GOLFARINI STILL CHAMP

ARMSTRONG GETS CRACK AT RUDKIN'S CROWN

Brian Packer Can Lick Any Bantam

81st ABA CHAMPIONSHIPS FINALS.

Welshman Pritchard Teams Up With The English

BRUMMAGEN'S Johnny Prescott
and London's Roy Enifer clash
at the Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, on
May 27, and promoter Alex Griffiths
states on his handbill " NO Radio, NO
Television, NO Films. These Perks are
Not For Midland Promoters."
So if you want to see this
interesting set-to, you'll have to go
along and pay your money. Looks a
good 'un, too, as the winner has been
promised a contest with ringside
spectator Carl Gizzi in June, which
will be an eliminator for the British
heavyweight title, official or unofficial.

HAVING his first fight since
A being stopped with an eye
i n j u r y in the second round of
t h e final eliminator for Henry
Cooper's British title by Jack
Bodell in Cardiff last November,
Carl Gizzi, Rhyl (14-8)
heavyweight champion of
Wales, beat Bernard Thebault,
France (14-5), at t h e Palais Des
Sports, The referee intervened
in the fourth of a scheduled
ten rounds bout when Thebault
had a cut eye.
Gizzi praised Thebault as
a good boy  he boxes well
and punches cleanly," and expressed
regrets that the fight
ended so abruptly.