Boxing News magazine Download 16.11.1979.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  16.11.1979.pdf

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

Arguello just one win away from Watt

Aird  I wouldn't fight for £20,000

Davies gets up to silence the Bell

GOLDEN LOOK ABOUT THESE IRISH BOYS

HUNGARY FOR SUCCESS AGAIN

ONE of the finest pound-for-pound fighters in recent years, Alexis Arguello of
Nicaragua, defends his World Boxing Council super-featherweight title
tonight (Friday) against a fighter who once seemed to have the potential to be
a great champion, Bobby Chacon, of Los Angeles.

LARRY HOLMES is to make his next World Boxing
Council heavyweight title defence against Lorenzo
Zanon of Italy, the European champion, promoter Don
King announced in New York.

PARIS — Novfember 5: Coventry's
Achille Mitchell gave a crowd pleasing
performance against French lightmiddleweight
champion Georges Warusfel,
who narrowly outpointed him over 10
rounds.

AS YOU are aware I am defending my Southern Area
middleweight championship against Frankie Lucas on
Monday, November 26.
The reason that I am asking you to publish a letter is that I
would like my fans to support me on this night, but as this takes
place on a dinner show at the Cunard Hotel, Hammersmith,
many fight fans think they cannot buy tickets without being a
member.

LIGHT-middleweigHt Nick Wilshire
and middleweight Robbie Smith will
both be on standby at the Royal Lancaster
Hotel on Monday when the
scales will determine which of them
faces New York's reigning national
AAU middleweight champion Alex
Ramos in the Young England v Young
USA match,

JERSEY  Novemner 10: London light-flyweight
champion Gerard Lavelle (St Peter's, Woolwich)
reversed a decision against him in the English semifinals
this year when he unanimously outpointed Darnhill's
Nigel Potter in the Young England trials held at the
Hotel de France, St Helier, on Saturday (November 10).
The decision means a place for Gerard in the Young
England v Young America match on Monday.

IRELAND'S Olympic build-up has begun. W i t h new-style training quarters
geared for the 1980s a n d c o m p e n s a t i o n for lost wages, the Irish team
hammered home their message w i t h a crushing 9-3 w i n over Canada at the National Stadium.In my opinion, it's the best side Ireland has produced since 1956 Olympicswhere welter Fred Tiedt w o n a silver medal and flyweight J o h n n y Caldwell,bantam Freddie Gilroy and lightweight Tony 'Socks' Byrne all w o n bronze medals.

MEMBERS of the Kenyan national squad on a European tour are pictured
at Repton's Cheshire Street Baths headquarters on November 5. The
Bethnal Green club were hosts to the Africans for an evening's training
when they made a brief stop in London.