Boxing News magazine Download 20.7.1979.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  20.7.1979.pdf

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

Young hopeful Dokes fights for a future

Mack's fighting philosophy

Last-chance Norton must beware early onslaught

CAIUS PACKS UP AFTER 61 YEARS

YEARS ago, when Vito Antuofermo was a kid just
starting out in the Golden Gloves in New York, his idol
was Jake LaMotta, the old Bronx Bull who held the
middleweight title for a couple of years.
"Jake is my special hero," Vito says. "I don't read
English fast, but I read 150 pages of LaMotta's biography
in one night."
Like Jake, Vito's style was to walk in throwing
punches, to lay his toughness on the line against the
other guy's.
It was a style that paid off in 43 of his 47 professional
fights and last time out he hit the jackpot, appropriately
enough in Monte Carlo. In a gruelling 15-rounder, Vito
outpunched Hugo Corro of the Argentine to emulate his
idol and become middleweight champion of the world.

FOR Joey Mack, it is the end of a remarkable season.
Twelve months ago when he lost an eight rounds points
decision against the South African Gert Steyn, the
suggestion that he would become the chief challenger
for the British welterweight championship within a year
would bave been almost laughable.

WHILE very few followers of boxing in Britain
believe John Conteh has more than an outside
chance of putting the clock back and regaining the
WBC title he never lost when journeying to
Atlantic City to tackle Matt Franklin on August 18,
all of us will be keeping our fingers crossed, hoping
John can recapture the form that made him great.

WHAT an amazing boxer was Dave Crowley, pert and clever with it; a
box-office attraction from the time he started professionally at the age of 18 in
1929 until an eye injury caused him to retire from thfe ring in 1946.
Always sure of what he did, confident in his abilities without being immodest, he
worked his way from flyweight to lightweight, meeting the very best at each
succeeding weight and always giving a good account of himself.