Boxing News magazine Download 27.6.1980.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  27.6.1980.pdf

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

Maari looks a class above Italian chomp Camputaro

OWEN CAN EDGE IT  ON EXPERIENCE

Feeney's so dangerous

Andries battles his way back

BATTLE-WORN VICTOR IS STILL A WARRIOR

Rampant Roberto wrestles crown from sad Sugar

Marsh gives ABA a frosty reception

LLOYD SET TO JOIN THE PROS

Maurice hopes for Duran

EXCITING East End flyweight Charlie Magri pits his relentless power against the challenge of Italian champion Giovanni Camputaro in the joint chief support to the world title bill topper.
It's a measure of Magri's dominance on the European circuit that the clash with Camputaro, the EBU's top contender, seems to have taken on the significance of merely a world title warm-up.

Three unbeaten young heavyweight hopes, along with Gerry Cooney and Greg Page, steps into the ring at Atlantic City tomorrow (Sat., June 28) afternoon for a rematch against Puerto Rico's OSSIE "JAWS" OCASIO.

ROBERTO DURAN relentlessly brawled and battered his way to a unanimous but desperately close points victory over Sugar Ray Leonard to win the WBC welterweight crown after 15 rounds of bruising fighting at the Olympic Stadium. A crowd of 46,317, the biggest ever for a fight in Canada and a closed circuit TV audience of about 1.5 million in North America saw a battle that lived up to its ballyhoo.

Britain's 18-year-old Olympic light-middleweight representative Nick Wilshire. His 19-bouts have in- cluded 11 at international level which have netted him the fabulous tally of a silver medal in the world under-19 championships and a gold in the European juniors.

class when he meets former world champion DAVID "POISON" KOTEI in Lusaka on Saturday. And middleweight stablemate CHISANDA MUTTI also faces a stiff test, being matched with SCORPION OFOSU, from Ghana.