Boxing News magazine Download 23.11.1979.pdf

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Boxing Results 1979

THE BATTLE'S ON FOR FINNEGAN'S CROWN

Brown leaves nothing to chance

Princely task for Rodney

Thumbs up for Gumbs!

TIM REYNOLDS ON THE LONDON AMATEUR SCENE

REIGATE'S SHAUN CHALCRAFT put up a clever
display of boxing on the retreat to snatch an eight
rounds verdict over ALEX TOMPKINS, Bow (12-5),
at the Concert Hall.
After doing little in the
early stages Chalcraft (12-4'/2)
got his southpaw jab going in
the sixth and that proved the
turning point of the fight.
Tompkin kept up the pressure
but Chalcraft's right
darted into his face while his
own leads fell short and solid
left crosses to the head gave
Chalcraft the better of closequarter
exchanges.

AGGRESSIVE Newcastle lightweight Norman
Morton and Merthyr's highly skilled Kerry
Collins drew over eight rounds in a fascinating
top of the bill encounter at the National
Sporting Club.
Referee Mike Jacob's score of 78 points
apiece proved popular with the crowd, and I
certainly could find no fault with the decision

THE odds look evenly balanced when big punching
Tottenham middleweight Roy Gumbs meets Frankie
Lucas at the Cunard Hotel, Hammersmith, on Monday.
Monday.
Gumbs has hit impressive form recently and must be
merited a puncher's chance against any class of
opponent. He looked particularly sharp in stopping-
Bonny McKenzie in his last contest, and claims that
Lucas' walk-in style will prove a perfect foil for his
power-house style.
He certainly seems to have improved in every
department of the game over the last 12 months,
although he is yet to face a fighter with Lucas' topclass
experience.

ABA light-heavyweight champion Andrew
Straughn erased the haunting
memory of his worst defeat when he
outpointed Radonja Ivanovic at Sabac.
Ivanovic, trailing on points and on the
verge of being stopped himself, kayoed
Straughn in three rounds at Luton in
September.

TERRY WENTON, Liverpool's
former England
amateur international
flyweight, now in the
twilight of his carrer, helped
make boxing history in
Liverpool recently when he
boxed on the same bill as his
son, Richard.
Terry lost, while
young Richard, 12 years of
age, won on what was his
ring debut. Not many
fathers and sons appear
together which makes the
Wenton family rather unique.

TONY SIBSON, Leicester's former British middleweight
champion, has a rapid return to action after losing the
crown when he takes on moderate American Robert Powell
at Liverpool Stadium on Thursday.

GEORGE FEENEY stepped in as a late substitute for flu
victim George Peacock and scored a highly impressive
last-round knockout over Central Area lightwelterweight
champion Chris Walker in a scheduled
eight threes at the St Andrew's Sporting Club.