Boxing News magazine Download 5.1.1979.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  5.1.1979.pdf

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

JOHNNY OWEN OUR FIGHTER OF THE YEAR

FIGHT OF 78 - I T 'S HOLMES AND NORTON

Dangerman Gumbs hands Evans a sixthround shock

MORGAN • FOR ENGLAND

JOHNNY OWEN, the Merthyr Matchstick, is our Fighter of the Year.
Owen's record for the year included a successful defence of his British
championship against Wayne Evans at Ebbw Vale in April (pictured below)
and a Commonwealth title win over Australia's Paul Ferreri. Britain's top 10
of the year

THE White Hope heavyweights of recent years
haven't been able to put together much of a
challenge to black hegemony in that division.

ANTI-SEGRAGATIONISTS in America
are pressing President Jimmy Carter
and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to
rescind the entry visa of South African
heavyweight Kallie Knoetze, following
disclosures about Knoetze's
part in shooting and crippling a black
youth, while arresting him.

AT the grand reunion and gala ball of the British Northern Boxers'
federation at Pontin's, Ainsdale, Liverpool, are (left to right): Ronnie
Clayton, former British and European featherweight champion; Johnny
Cooke, former British welterweight champion; J a c k i e Briers; Rinty
Monaghan, former flyweight world champion; Dinny Morrison and Paddy
Hughes. Kneeling is J a c k i e Thomas.

JEFF DECKER, talented North-East
Counties youngster, avenged a previous
defeat by Scottish champion and Commonwealth
Games rep. IAN McLEOD
when they clashed at a show organised
by Dalkeith ABC at the Miners Welfare.
Decker looked sharper all round than
McLeod, who has recently been on the injured
list with a damaged ankle and deserved his
points verdict

Former ABA finalist TOMMY McCALLUM
laboured to give away weight and a beating to
DAVID MILLIGAN before his speed and
agility finally pulled him through, while many
of the audience considered Sunderland's
EDDIE BAISTER unlucky to drop a majority
verdict to Scottish titleholder TOMMY ROSS.