Boxing News magazine Download 28.9.1979.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  28.9.1979.pdf

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Boxing Results 1979

Its so easy for Hope!

BOXING NEWS WORLD TITLE SPECIAL FROM WEMBLEY

FEENEY STRETCHES THAT RUN

Peacock gets the double

AMATEUR NEWS ROUND-UP

STRAUGHN BLOWS IT!

MAURICE HOPE did the expected as he handed
outclassed American Mike Baker a monotonously
one-sided hammering in a first defence of his WBC
light-middleweight title at Wembley.
Hope stopped Baker after two minutes 30
seconds of the seventh after having him on the
floor and following up with a furious fusillade of
blows.

THERE were the predictable easy wins for house
favourites Dave Green and Charlie Magri on the Wembley
undercard. Ex-European welterweight champion
Green, in his first outing since his disastrous kayo by
Jorgen Hansen, pounded American import Steve
Michelarya to third round defeat, while outgunned
Mexican Raul Pachecho lasted into the sixth against
British and European flyweight king Magri.

I HOPE by n< >\v Ron Olverhas been able to pass on the
address of Kddie Phillips, one of the few former British
champions who have not yet responded to an invitation
to attend '.he British Boxing Board of Control's 50th
anniversary banquet on November 7.
But I'm not optimistic that the reserved Phillips will
attend the function to celebrate the foundation of the
Board way back in 1929. And this is not a petulant
gesture, for Eddie is one of the nicest and politest among
the many champions I have been fortunate to meet as
boy and man since even before the Board began.

FRITZ GRETZSCHEL is dead, writes JACK TREE. He died on
Saturday, September 15, after a fourth stroke.
Fritz, a pioneer of German boxing dating back to 1936,
managed, among others, Gustav Eder and Walter Neusel, and
after the last war steered Gustav Scholz to win a European
crown and gave him the opportunity to fight for a world title.
Scholz met light-heavyweight champion Harold Johnson in
Berlin's Olympic Statium on June 23, 1962, losing on points
before a crowd of 40,000. Fritz Gretzschel was also the promoter
and he went on to promote nearly 200 shows.