Boxing News magazine Download 5.12.1980.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download 5.12.1980.pdf

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

Angiy Mustafa in a different class to Rudi

Meade's final glory chance

GEORGE SURVIVES LAST-ROUND SCARE

Tongue lashing by Lawless fails to give Kirkland a lift

WITH THE AMATEURS

Army crush London

STRENGTH and punching power prevailed as Matthew
Saad Muhammad battered the clever but outgunned
 Lotte Mwale into defeat in the fourth round to retain his
 W B C light-heavyweight title before a small crowd of
about 3,000 in the beautiful 10,000 capacity Sports
Arena.
 Mwale, the Commonwealth and All-African champ
from Zambia via Highgate, was knocked flat on his back
by a terrific left uppercut to the jaw in the fourth to bring
his challenge to a dramatic end.

THE SECOND part of the world light-heavyweight title
weekend, promoted by MAPS, proved a disappointment,
with WBA champion Eddie Mustafa Muhammad of New
York stopping Dutch challenger Rudi Koopmans in rather
inconclusive fashion after three rounds at the New Olympic
Auditorium.

TONY SIBSON attempts to bring the European middleweight title back to the
Sam Burns stable when he meets champion Matteo Salvemini over 12 rounds at
the Royal Albert Hall on Monday.
It's a very hard first defence for the 27-year-old Italian who gained the crown
with an emphatic, if rather unimpressive, points win over jaded Kevin Finnegan.
Sibson, now training back in Leicester after a spell based in London, has
crammed 42 fights in his four-year career, losing only three. Incredibly, at 22 years
of age he has a big edge in experience over southpaw Salvemini.

RARELY have I seen a winning boxer look so miserable as
Kirkland Laing who, having been awarded victory over
Joey Singleton in a 12 round final eliminator for the British
welterweight title, simply held his arm aloft briefly and left
the Midland Sporting Club ring without any suggestion of
elation.
His lack of expression reflected a combination of his own
inability to underline his authority in a more emphatic
fashion after controlling the first seven rounds and the
persistent criticisms of Terry Lawless, whose disgust with
his man's performance was made absolutely clear.

THERE'S plenty of fighting talk from the Fife end of the
Forth Bridge. The rotund Terry McVay, manager and
trainer of Eddie' Burke, is the talker and he hopes to have his
man in the ring in Glasgow at the end of January.
It is so difficult to get opponents for "Banger" Burke,
because of his big-hitting reputation, that Terry, with the
encouragement of Peter Keenan, has decided to go for the
top men in the division.

BRITISH welterweight champion Colin Jones faces a tough
ten round against former world ranked light-middleweight
Clemente Tshinza at the Merthyr Sports Centre on December
15.
The evening is a benefit night for the Johnny Owen fund.
Tshinza, born in Zaire but based in Belgium, holds a
points win over veteran Philadelphian Bennie Briscoe.
British title challenger Steve Hopkin seemed to have done
more than enough to beat him abroad, but received only a
draw. He also recently lost on points to Jose Hernandez, the
former European champion — a result that suggests he's on
the slide.