Boxing News magazine Download 28.11.1980.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  28.11.1980.pdf

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

Cattouse wins but there's no sparkle

Superdome sensation as Duran walks out

Gumbs smashes Styles in two

Gilpin's stiffest test

ABA will pursue Hungary controversy

ROBERTO DURAN, the man they called Stone
Fists, the man in whom burned a cold, merciless
desire for victory, astounded the boxing world by
turning human in the New Orleans Superdome.
Duran walked out of his WBC welterweight title rematch
with Sugar Ray Leonard after 2 minutes 44
seconds of the eighth round.
He was not hurt, not bleeding, not out of the fight.
He just lost his temper and quit.

HIGHGATE-BASED Zambian Lotte Mwale follows in the footsteps of gym mate
John Conteh tonight (Friday) when he challenges Matthew Saad Muhammad for
the WBC light-heavyweight crown.
Mwale, 27, enters the San Diego title fight a firm underdog, but U.S. "experts"
should not dismiss him too lightly. Muhammad, formerly Matt Franklin, seems to
be showing the effects of a highly demanding - at times burtal - career: the
African challenger may have caught the champion at just the right time.
Muhammad had to pull out all the stops to outpoint Conteh in an August, '79,
defence - if not for the use of an illegal potion on the champion's badly gashed left
eye, John may well have won on an injury stoppage.
But the return proved a one sided affair, with Conteh folding in four rounds.
In both fights, Muhammad proved something of a disappointment. Conteh
caught him time and again with jabs in the first encounter, before the Philadelphian
stepped into overdrive in the last quarter of the contest.

BILLY  W E L L S jnr. son of 1968 ABA heavyweight champion
and British Mexico Olympic rep. Billy Wells, is the
latest heavyweight entry for the Faberge Brut 33 belt
novice competition which will be presented by Bermondsey's
Fisher Club at the Europa Hotel, Mayfair next Monday
(December 1st),