Boxing News magazine Download 3.10.1980.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  3.10.1980.pdf

Boxing News Magazine 1980  Memorabilia
Boxing News Magazine 1980  History
Boxing Results 1980

Fans riot as Minter is stopped

Lack-lustre Neil folds in second

O'CONNORTOOBIG FOR BRAVE BURTON

Good show, Gilpin

The great British challenge that ended in tragedy

RANDY COBB .. .lists Country and Western music and barfighting
as his main hobbies.

THE long-dead myth of British sportsmanship was finally
buried at Wembley as a cascade of beer bottles and cans
showered the ring and a racist mob howled obscenities at the
black fighter who had taken Alan Minter's world
middleweight title and at the black referee who had stopped
the fight after one minute 45 seconds of the third round.
For the first time in a British ring, and probably the first
time anywhere, a new world champion had to be rushed
from the ring as soon as the fight ended, without even
waiting for the official announcement of his victory, to save
him from actual physical attack by the crowd.

CHICAGO lightweight Eddie Murray lived up to his publicity tag of
"Bad News" as he adopted blatant survival tactics to last the eight round
distance against British champion Ray Cattouse.
Cattouse, from Balham, won as clearly as referee Mike Jacobs' 80-76
points margin indicated, but it was a fight he'll want to forget.
The bout met with boos and jeers and Cattouse looked thoroughly
embarrassed as Murray lifted him in the air at the end.
The only time Murray injected real fire into his work was in the sixth,
when Cattouse seemed stung by three hard right hooks.
For the most part, it was a monotonous pattern of Cattouse chasing
and Murray effectively smothering whenever the exchanges threatened to
get too heated.

RANDY COBB .. .lists Country and Western music and barfighting
as his main hobbies.

THE special commission of AIPS - the international association
of sports journalists — has completed its vote early
for the year, ostensibly due to the Olympics, and four
British and an Irish fighter feature in the 1980 amateur
world lists.
In their categories Tony Willis and Hugh Russell are
fourth, George Gilbody and Nick Wilshire are fifth and
Joey Frost is ranked seventh.
As is traditional, the tignters of all countries had been
considered, including those that gave Moscow a miss, but
the commission merely confirmed on the whole the Olympic
results, and the absentees were given very short shrift.
The Olympic finalists occupy first and second place in
each category, and only at lightweight the loser, Demyanenko,
of the USSR precedes the winner, Herrera, of Cuba,.
who won on an injury stoppage.