Boxing News magazine Download 22.2.1980.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download 22.2.1980.pdf

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

OWEN CAN MAKE SURE THIS TIME

Late rally earns Lawford a draw

Cautiou$-but Gumbs does just enough

Buchanan set to move up a weight

Hagler bombs out Hamani in two

Herbert battles back to triumph

KAYLOR SHOWS HOW IT'S DONE

AFTER a career spanning 12 years and 67 bouts, Birmingham's Bunny Johnson finally gets the oppor- tunity to gain full possession of a Lonsdale Belt on promoter Pat Brogan's first title promotion at the Adult Ballroom, Burslem, on Wednesday.

BRITISH and Commonwealth bantamweight champion Johnny Owen bids to set the record straight when he challenges
European titleholder Juan Francisco Rodriguez at Ebbw
Vale Leisure Centre on Thursday

MANCHESTER'S Danny Lawford rallied
strongly in the last two sessions to
snatch a popular, eight-round draw with
Welsh light-heavyweight champion
Chris Lawson at the Anglo-American
Sporting Club.

BIG-HITTING middleweight Roy Gumbs powered his way to top British title
contention by successfully defending his Southern Area crown against
Croydon's Frankie Lucas at the World Sporting Club.
Referee Harry Gibbs' score of 98V4-97V4 after 10 absorbing rounds met with
scattered booing and, I felt, rather flattered the champion.

THE price war for the projected welterweight title fight
between Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran is
hotting up.
The fight would command big purse offers in any case, but the war between Bob Arum and Don King is having an inflationary effect. Sugar Ray is leaning towards Arum, and Duran is in King's camp, so each of the "packagers" is trying to lure the opponent's ace.

SOLAR ATHLETIC CLUB, formerly the famous Telstar Gym, will vacate the premises sometime this spring. The owners of the dilapidated six-storey loft building on West 28th Street, just a few blocks from Madison Square Garden, will convert the gym into an apartment project for maximum revenue.