Boxing News magazine Download 29.6.1979.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  29.6.1979.pdf

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Boxing Results 1979

COETZEE RIGHT HALTS SPINKS

The bold Weaver worries weary Holmes

CHI A VERIN I FALLS TO SUGAR RAY

ACARIES STILL CHAMP

Hickey's boys sweep four golds in 1896 Olympic venue

COLIN POWER, Paddington's British
light-welterweight champion, used
Brazilian late substitute JOSE LUIS
RIBERO as a mobile punch-bag for most
of their scheduled eight threes before
halting him in the sixth.

NEW YORK  June 22: Former undisputed world lightweight champion
ROBERTO DURAN of Panama underlined his welterweight title claims and
incidentally proved himself perhaps the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of
the day when he unanimously outscored CARLOS PALOMINO in their
Madison Square Garden 10-rounder. It was a wonderful fight, a fight of a
life-time.

MANY fight fans of the 30s will remember Filipino Joe
Mendiola, who stopped top men like Mickey McGuire,
Bobby Magee and Peter Miller, and also beat Jim Brady
and Ike Pratt.
I have received a letter from Owen Hughes, who asks if
anyone knows what happened to Joe.
"If he is still alive he would be around 67 years old," writes
Owen. "His real name was Maluar. He was based in France
when he boxed against British opposition, and I've never been
able to trace him, even from friends in Manila and parts of Asia.
"I believe he was a merchant seaman. When I saw him beat
McGuire I thought he was a certainty for a World title.

THE CUBANS are unworried about hometown verdicts,
and were fully prepared to collect a spate of
undeserved losses on tour while visiting East
Europe's major tourneys. They travel with a 'resident
shrink'  a psychiatrist who did some boxing himself
and persuades their fighters to accept dubious
defeats with grace.

OXFORD & BERMONDSEY'S unbeaten Mick Cooper
was surprised at the resistance he received from the
promoting club's 40-year-old "Sparrow" Harrison on the
Belsize bill at Lord's Tavern.