Boxing News magazine Download 26.12.1980.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  26.12.1980.pdf

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

Amateur review of year

BOXING NEWS ON THE TOP TEN FIGHTS OF THE YE

1 Maurice Hope v Carlos Herrera

2 Jim Watt v Sean O'Grady

3 Jim Watt v Charlie Nash
4 Maurice Hope v Rocky Mattioli
5 Pat Cowdell v Jimmy Flint
6 Marvin Hagler v Alan Minter
7 Charlie Magri v Santos Laciar
8 Ricky Beaumont v George Feeney
9 Robbie Robinson v George Metcalf
10 Stan McDermott v Andy Palmer

EUROPEAN and Commonwealth middleweight champion
Tony Sibson is our No. 5 spot fighter for 1980.
Boxing News has a soft spot for Sibson, who was a prospect
of the year in our assessments of 1976. We watched him
develop on Ron Gray's Wolverhampton shows from a
strong, raw 17-year-old into a champion.
We built him up and publicised him nationally long before
his name appeared in the big dailies.
Tony had three fights at the Albert Hall this year and two
at Wembley. He outpointed Chisanda Mutti for the vacant
Commonwealth title and recently kayoed Matteo Salvemini
for the European crown.

BRITISH welterweight champion Colin Jones began the
year in style when his hard punching won him the
domestic title.
He had been fancied to beat defending champion
Kirkland Laing but was being outboxed until he found
his man with a single crashing right, and then never let
him off the hook until the fight was stopped in the ninth.
Jones boxed coolly behind a tight defence, hardly
wasting any punches.
Manager Eddie Thomas, former European champion
at the weight himself, takes a big part in his fighter's
training and has concentrated on teaching Jones the left
hook to the body and a good guard.

TWO OF the great professionals I ever had the privilege
of watching in action were Archie Lee Wright and
Giuseppe Antonio Berardinelli. Fight fans knew them
as Archie Moore and Joey Maxim, who clashed for the
World light-heavyweight title in 1952, also in rematches
in 1953 and 1954.

ON the October Friday evening preceding the ABA's Centenary
year showpiece multi-nations tournament week at
Wembley, a few dozen dinner-jacketed gentlemen met quietly
for supper at the Eccentric Club in St James's, London.
Among the guests were Jack Peterson, Harry Gibbs, Johhny
Pritchett and John H. Stracey. They were meeting to celebrate the
centenary of the sole surviving club of the original 12 clubs which
affiliated to the new Amateur Boxing Association and therefore
claims to be the oldest boxing club in the world - Belsize ABC.