Boxing News magazine Download 2.11.1979.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  2.11.1979.pdf

Boxing News Magazine 1979  Memorabilia
Boxing News Magazine 1979  History
Boxing Results 1979

Crowd-pleaser Oke earns his nobbins

Davies back in business

Boxing's back in Cornwall with a bang

ABA SHAMED BY CLUBS

GLASGOW'S Jim Watt puts a possible fistic fortune on the line when
he faces hard hitting Texan Roberto Vasquez in the first defence of
his WBC lightweight title at Kelvin Hall tomorrow (Saturday) writes
Mike Lockley.
Victory will open the door to a money spinning match against
Howard Davis and the possibility of a lucrative domestic showdown
with the Charlie Nash-Ken Buchanan winner cannot be ignored.

WARLEY'S Pat Cowdell makes a long overdue first appearance on a major London
show when he attempts to even the score with British featherweight champion
Dave Needham, writes MIKE LOCKLEY.
They clashed for the first time in Wolverhampton two months ago, when
Needham was adjudged a points winner. However, referee Sid Nathan's interpretation
of the bout sparked a near riot and the ugly scenes were only quelled by
the arrival of a number of police officers.
Mr Nathan, it should be stressed, is a referee with an abundance of top class
experience behind him. His decision in favour of the champion, however, was
unanimously denounced by the ringside press, many of whom had Needham
winning only two rounds.

WELSH welterweight sensation Colin Jones earned the right to fight for the
British title with an emphatic inside the distance victory over stangely subdued
Joey Mack in the scheduled twelve round main event at the Club Double
Diamond.
Mack, totally outgunned from the first bell, was finally rescued by referee Harry
Gibbs after 36 seconds of the tenth.
The Birmingham boxer, who gained top centender status with prestigous wins
over Achille Mitchell and Mick Mills, had visited the canvas ten times in all 
statistics which underlined his alarmingly low punch resistance, rather than his
opponent's much publicised hitting power.