Boxing News magazine Download 13.7.1979.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  13.7.1979.pdf

Boxing News Magazine 1979  Memorabilia
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Boxing Results 1979

One ring journeyman's story...by JIM BRADY

SUGAR LEONARD PUNCHES JUST LIKE SUGAR RAY

Divs 21 -year salute for ABA's Bill Cox

FERRERI ON COURSE FOR FOURTH TITLE

THERE'S no doubt about who runs the middleweight
division. Two months ago in South Africa BOB ARUM
laid it on the line by stating: "Hugo Corro will defend
against Vito Antuofermo on June 30.

ALEXIS ARGUELLO of Nicaragua, prect
eded into the ring by a Sandanista banner,
retained the WBC junior lightweight title by
i stopping Mexico's Rafael "Bazooka" Limon
I in the 11th round of a bloody-spattered fight
j at Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum,
| and afterwards dedicated the victory to "all
; those who have died" in the Nicaraguan
i Civil War and to the cause of the Sandanista
I rebel forces.

WHEN heavyweights are in the ring anything can
happen, and it can happen suddenly, as Gerrie Coetzee
demonstrated when whacking Leon Spinks in 2 min 3
sees of the first round at Monte Carlo.
It looked to me as if Spinks was going to swarm all over the
South African but then Coetzee landed a right to, I
thought, Leon's left temple and the former Olympic gold medal
hero from St Louis went sprawling for the first of three
knockdowns.

SPANISH boxing has certainly
found 1979 a bad year.
Alfredo Evangelista dropped
his European title to Lorenzo
Zanon, Roberto Castanon
was flattened by Danny
Lopez, Adoni Amana found
Marijan Benes too good, Jose
Luis Heredia was outclassed
bv Jo Kimpuani and Dum
Dum Pacheco's shot at Dave
Green fell through.

ANOTHER fight, another payday and another dazzling
TV performance by Sugar Ray Leonard, whose flashing
fists left Tony Chiaverini battered and bemused after
four rounds of a scheduled 10-rounder at Caesars Palace,
Las Vegas.

WHEN heavyweights are in the ring anything can
happen, and it can happen suddenly, as Gerrie Coetzee
demonstrated when whacking Leon Spinks in 2 min 3
sees of the first round at Monte Carlo.
It looked to me as if Spinks was going to swarm all over the
South African but then Coetzee landed a right to, I
thought, Leon's left temple and the former Olympic gold medal
hero from St Louis went sprawling for the first of three
knockdowns.