Boxing News magazine Download 26.1.1979.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  26.1.1979.pdf

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

INSIDE TODAY: SIX PAGES OF AMATEUR NEWS

Batten back but booed

Pickard wants a better deal

PENARSKI KAYOED IN FIVE

Moughton is Repton's tour star

Jones and Ashton win with last round rallies

BRITISH flyweight champion CHARLIE MAGRI
was in devastating form as he hammered hapless
Italian import FILIPO BELVEDERE to defeat in
just two mins 20 sees of the first of a scheduled
eight threes,

JERSEY JOE WALCOTT holds Rocky Marciano
off with a right in the first round of their championship
contest. Walcott was ahead against the
Rock after 12 rounds but got kayoed in the 13th.
He would have retained the title under the new
EBU rules.

NEW YORK  January 18: WBA light-welterweight
champion Antonio Cervantes of Colombia gave a
masterly display of long-range boxing when he
do m i n a t e d and u n a n i m o u s l y o u t p o i n t e d hardpunching
challenger Miguel Montilla of the Dominican
Republic in Madison Square Garden.
Cervantes now hopes to defend his title against WBA
lightweight champion Robert Duran in a clash of the
super-champs that has been long mooted but never
materialised.

ENGLAND, regular participants in the
biennial European championships since
their inception in 1924, will for the first
time not be c o m p e t i n g in this year's
tournament to be s t a g e d in C o l o g n e from
May 5-16 because of an impossible clash
of dates with the ABA championships 
the finals being on May 4. Wales f o l l o ws
England's example, but Scotland will be
sending a team.

BUNNY STERLING, former European, British and Commonwealth middleweight
champion, has pulled out of his fight w i t h former stable-mate Frankie Lucas for the
British title v a c a t e d by Alan Minter.