Boxing News magazine Download 27.7.1979.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  27.7.1979.pdf

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

GILMOUR LINES UP GLASGOW DOUBLE

Western Counties  best-ever season

Stobie's worth a mention in the bantam list

LAST September, Roy Varden made what seemed to be
an inevitable decision: he relinquished his Midland Area
light-welterweight title and announced his intention to
operate as a welter after two and a half years among the
lights and light-welters and an impressive 23 wins in 27
fights to show for them. At 19, he found it increasingly
difficult to make the 10 stone limit and both he and his
manager Johnny Griffin were convinced that a transition
to the heavier division was the solution.

WORLD OF SPORT deserves a vote of thanks for letting
us See that tremendous fight between Danny Lopez and
Mike Ayala. Everyone knew that Lopez was a great
champion, but Ayala was a revelation.
It's a long time since I've seen anyone fight off the
ropes as cleverly as Mike did, and according to most
cards he was ahead after 10 rounds. However, a cut
left eye, a broken nose and the strength of a great
champion proved too much for the man from the Alamo.
CBS were so impressed by the young Texan they want
him back on TV as soon as possible, and as Mike is a
natural 'super-bantamweight Gil Clancy asked Tony
Ayala if his son wanted a match with Wilfredo Gomez,
but Tony feels Mike has earned a rest.

THE card on which WBC heavyweight champion Larry Holmes successfully
defended his title against Mike "Hercules" Weaver and former lightweight
champ Roberto Duran decisioned ex-welterweight king Carlos Palomino was
just about the strangest ever promoted in the current Madison Square
Garden.

BOXERS, apart from Ken Buchanan, have been taking a
well-earned summer rest from the ring. Not so the
promoters, matchmakers and managers in Scotland. For
instance, Tommy Gilmour Jnr has lost no time, on his
return from the Costa Brava, in stirring the punchbowl.

THE proposed merger of two of London's busiest clubs,
Walworth's Robert Browning and Hollington, of Camberwell
is off.
Negotiations started at the end of last season when Hollington,
an all-purpose club taking in table tennis, football,
badminton and other sports, found that they were developing
young boxers only to lose them when they reached the
Hollington age limit of 18, which is fairly common in clubs
affiliated to the London Federation of Boys' Clubs.
It had been proposed that there would be a committee of 12
on the new, joint club executive, six from Hollington and six
from Browning.

THE John Tate v Gerrie Coetzee WBA heavyweight championship fight in
Pretoria on October 20 will make a piece of South African domestic history as
well as boxing history in that the seats will be open to all with no segregation
based on race. This will be the first time the Loftus Verveld stadium has been
open unconditionally.