Boxing News magazine Download 6.7.1979.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  6.7.1979.pdf

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

Green loses his head and his title

KALULE COASTS IT

Fighting men of the midlands by Ernie Cashmore

Hearns makes it 20 in a row

Charlie Webb one of the best

Gwilliam dominates Price

DAVE GREEN takes the count in his European
welterweight title defeat against Danish veteran
in Randers last week. Dave had been lined up for
another world title shot, but now those dreams
are in ruins.
On the same bill, former world lightweight
champion Ken Buchanan made a winning comeback
after a four-year layoff. Reports and more
pictures on pages 2-5.

KEN BUCHANAN celebrated his return to the ring and his 34th birthday by clearly outpointing aggressive Puerto Rican Benny Benitez in a lively eight-rounder on the Randershallen undercard.

Kalule, due to challenge for the WBA light-middleweight crown in the autumn, kept in trim with a fair eight-round work-out against game New Yorker Ray Hammond in the chief support to the Green-Hansen fight. Kalule took a unan- imous decision and I thought he won every round

RICHARD SMITH, born at Woolwich in London, on February 10, 1886, and better known as Dick, could lay claim to more than the average number of distinctions, as also to the recollections of a busy and varied life.
The record books allot him as a first claim to fame, the winning of the ABA Heavyweight Championship in both 1912 and 1913. Smith would then have been in his 28th year, but he had previously won a Police Championship at an earlier date, and prior to that, the Championship of the Army in India.

celebrate with a wine and cheese party at their presentation
night at their headquarters, on July 12.
Much of their success is due to the hard work of conscientious
committee backed up trainer Bill Kingwell, brother of 1971
ABA light-welterweight champion Mick Kingwell.
Mick has had to quit his trainers post because of business
commitments but Bill is helping to take Trinity up the ladder of
fame.

RAY GILBODY (left) outpointing Kelvin Smart in this
years ABA flyweight final to become the first of two
brothers to take titles in the same year. Ray also got a
gold in the Acropolis Cup multi-nations tournament in
Athens last month.