Boxing News magazine Download 8.2.1980.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download 8.2.1980.pdf

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

Another big step for Magri and Mwale

Holmes plods to victory

Gomez hits the jackpot

Arguelloa..thin man with the lethal finish

Rossman's last chance

McLeod turns down pro bid

Wilshire puts out Lithgow

DANNY "LITTLE RED" LOPEZ, gashed over both
eyes, lost his WBC featherweight title when he was
hammered to defeat in 13 bloody, one-sided rounds by
Salvador Sanchez of Mexico at the Memorial Coliseum.
Puerto Rican referee Waldemar Schmidt stopped
the fight after 51 seconds of round 13 as Lopez
wobbled back across the ring from a series of lefts and
rights.

THE lightweight division holds centre stage in Britain at
the moment with next month's WBC championship
fight between Jim Watt and Irish challenger Charlie
Nash, the most intriguing domestic encounter in years.
Which is why I thought it interesting to write a
progress report on Alexis Arguello, the Nicaraguan
exile who eyes the title the way a shark does its next
meal.

LUPE PINTOR of Mexico has not had an entirely happy
reign as World Boxing Council bantamweight champion.
He spent a week in jail for an assault on a Mexican
police officer and in December was floored and upset in a
non-title bout.

IT was easy to sympathise with Scotland's best hope for
an Olympic vest, Ian McLeod, when he spoke of seeking
solace in the professional ranks immediately after his
recent controversial defeat in London by Peter Hanlon.
An understandable reaction
in view of a similar decision
which went the way of the
Gloucester postman also in
last year's ABA featherweight
final.

CLUBS in South East London are so concerned at the inability of Southwark
Council to get boxing into the one-and-a-half million pounds Elephant and Castle
leisure centre, the venue they promised w o u l d replace Manor Place Baths,
Walworth, which was closed last year, that one, Robert Browning ABC, are running
an open tournament at the one place Southwark does provide for boxing.
Browning president Bill Martin, w h o is on the London ABA Council and S. E.
Divisional Committee said: " W e would like to run a dinner tournament to provide
money for our club maintenance expenses, but not all the supporters can afford
dinner shows, so, to help m a i n t a i n local interest, we are staging an open
tournament at the North Peckham Civic Hall, Old Kent Road on Monday, March 11.