Boxing News magazine Download 3.9.1982.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  3.9.1982.pdf

Boxing News Magazine 1982  Memorabilia
Boxing News Magazine 1982 History
Boxing Results 1982

Benitez has date with the hit-man

CHAMPIONS I'LL NEVER FORGET Wally Thom

Dazzler Camacho set for title bid

Now Jefford fights for a living

IT'S MY week for feeling paranoid, and who can blame me
with blasts coming at me from two continents? First reader
Bassett (pages 2-3) accuses me of consistentiy down-rating
WBC heavyweight king Larry Holmes, and then my South
African friend and correspondent Bert Blewett takes me to
task in his South African Boxing World editorial column.
Bert criticises my decision to record the Holmes v Gerry
Cooney result as a 'technical disqualification'. He writes:
"Officially the decision was announced as a TKO at 2 min
52 sees of the 13th round, but Mullan claims that Victor'
Valle's intervention - Cooney's trainer raced across the ring
to catch him as he was about to fall - should have resulted
in the challenger's instant disqualification.

THEY may not be champions yet, but Belfast manager Barney Eastwood
and his associate Paddy Byrne have already got their stars looking the
part. Barney, who has just spent a small fortune in fitting out a first-class
gym for his fighters, found three championship belts from an earlier era
and had them lovingly restored.
They're modelled here by (left to right) bantamweight Hugh Russell,
light-heavyweight Frank McCullagh, and featherweight Barry McGuigan,
with Paddy.
Byrne, one of the games busiest hustlers, has yet another venture
underway - he launches his Regency Sporting Club at the Hotel.
Metropole, Brighton on September 12, with heavyweight prospect Funso
Banjo topping the bill against Theo Josephs.

IT isn't every boxer who turns professional
at the age of 23 after an outstanding
amateur career lasting 11 years. Who
is happily married, has two children,
twice becomes a British champion, wins
three distinct tides and makes a Lonsdale
Belt his own property.
That in a nutshell are the facts about
Wally Thom, the Birkenhead southpaw,
who continued his illustrious career by
becoming a Star R e f e r e e of long
standing.