Boxing News magazine Download 16.5.1980.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download 16.5.1980.pdf

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

SO CLASSY LAING HITS TOP FORM

KEERS HOLDS OWENS TO DRAW

Spencer's ready to make his mark

Minchillo and Salvemini look Just the job

Why the Russians make their boxing boys wait

KIRKLAND LAING shrugged off the disappointment of his recent British title
loss, scoring a clear points victory over George Walker after eight (three
minute) rounds at the Midlands Sporting Club.

MARVIN HAGLER gave another
impressive display of two-handed
banging in taking out Bobby "Boogaloo"
Watts in their ABC-TV bout at Portland,
Maine, on April 20.
As against Loucif Hamani two months earlier,
he showed he can stun a man with a
southpaw right jab. It was a jab from the
southpaw stance that put Watts down to be
stopped at, officially, 2 min 59 sees of the
second round.

ABA SECRETARY Len Mills is challenging a decision of
the British Olympic Committee to reduce Britain's
Moscow boxing team from nine to seven.
At a meeting of the BOC in London on Wednesday of last
week (May 7), where the sizes of all teams were trimmed for
financial reasons, Len resolutely insisted on the originally
requested number. He also successfully fended off an attempt
to further tailor the party by cutting the number of coaches
from two to one. Kevin Hickey and Roy Agland will, as a
consequence, now both go.

YOUNG England featherweight TONY CONNOLLY, his
ABA title aspirations checked in the London finals by
Herman Henry in March, bounced back with a prestigious
win over highly rated northerner JIMMY
DUNCAN in a standing ovation bout at the Hotel de
France, St Helier.

A MEMBER of the victorious 1st Battalion The Queen's
Regiment team who won the Army championship for
the third successive year is Battersea soldier Lance
Corporal ERROL HARRISON.
Errol joined the Queen's Regiment in 1972 and is a section
commander with the 1st Battalion station in Werl, West
Germany. His service has taken him to Canada, Germany,
Belgium, Holland, Berlin and Northern Ireland. He lives in
quarters in Werl with his wife Patricia and their two children.
He has been boxing for four years and last year was the Army
intermediate light welterweight champion. His interests are
many and in his spare time is a drummer with a Reggae band.
His opponent, a tall light Infantryman, was quickly stopped
by Errol with a good left-hook after 45 seconds but beat the
count and a second powerhouse left laid his opponent out cold
after 90 seconds. Errol's performance had the spectators on
their feet applauding in the Army Boxing Centre in Aldershot.

THE first three Lonsdale Belts to be put into circulation
by the National Sporting Club were, curiously enough,
won by Welshmen. The first went to Freddie Welsh of
Pontypridd; the third was taken by Jim Driscoll, from Cardiff.
The second — on December 20, 1909 — was captured
by Tom Thomas, who came from a tiny place in the
mountains of Wales that it would be hard to find on the map.
His parents owned a small farm at Carncelyn, near
Penygraig, in the Rhondda Valley. Father and son ran
the place without other help and every day was long and hard.
Apart from reading about boxing, Tom knew little
about the sport until his late 'teens, when he would
trudge miles to the nearest mining town to enjoy
watching the fights in the miners' halls or the travelling
booths.

WINSTON SPENCER is the cold, calculating face of
boxing in the 1980s: a hard man motivated by the urge to
make a fortune with his fists.
He prefers to treat his profession as business proposition
 and, to him, business is very much a pleasure.
Spencer, on his own admission, chases success with all
the ruthless verve of a young executive.
Life-long trainer Frank Duffett was ousted  on
Spencer's recommendation  following the recent
points defeat to Tony Carroll at the Albert Hall- "I didn't
like doing it, but those are the kind of sacrifices I have to
make," explained the Jamaican-born fighter.