Boxing News magazine Download 9.7.1982.pdf

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

Pryor sets up Arguello date

Singleton says farewell at last

Feeney finds it  much too tough

Top action with the amateurs

BOXING lost its greatest weekly fight club when the Silver
Slipper in Las Vegas finaly closed down. Purses had overtaken
receipts so the casino has decided to drop boxing after
many years of weekly shows.
The Aladdin is also dropping boxing, but the Silver Slipper
is the big loss. As it has been operating since 1964.
The Northern Nevada Boxing Club held its annual Cow
Pasture Show in Carson City, but the event was ruined for
the locals when their hero Mark Lee was outpointed by Ken
Arlt. The 25-year-old Arlt, a heavyweight from Portland

WE await with interest the return of Frank Bruno, the best
novice, repeat novice, heavyweight I have seen. He's undergone
phase two of the build-up. Getting the feel of the
American scene. " I just want Frank to realise that the stars
have their troubles. They also feel tension, they have aches
and pains. It's often just as tough at the top," says manager
Terry Lawless, still in the States.

IN what turned out to be the New York's mystery
night of the year, local Henry Brent won the United
States Boxing Association flyweight title with a ninth
round technical knockout over Mark Pacheco of
Portland, Oregon at the Felt Forum.

MANY BOXERS have fewer than 46 fights in their whole
careers. Former Sheffield featherweight Denny Dawson had
this number of contests in just two years, 1949 and 1950.
And he wasn't merely a bread-and-butter fighter to whom
results didn't matter. During that period he lost only two
inside the distance, one to Ron Cooper and the other to
Teddy Peckham, when he misjudged die count after resting
on one knee.

HE'S THE CHAMP. Jason Groves of Marvels Lane, ABC,
saved South East London from a whitewash by winning a
title in the London Junior finals at Porchester Hall. Jason is
seen receiving his trophy from Bob Scadden, a director of
Watney's, the sponsors.

BRITAIN'S Kirkland Laing sprang one of the biggest
upsets erf the year when he outpointed Roberto Duran in
their 10 rounds light-middleweight bout at the Cobo Hall to
finish the career of the ring legend from Panama.
Duran has yet to announce his retirement officially but at
31 it is difficult to see where he can go from here. Laing,
meanwhile, stepped up into world class with a split yet
convincing victory in a fight that was intriguing rather than
exciting.

NORMAN MAILER wrote an entire book, 'The Fight,' about what
he called the Greatest Championship of all time. Right fighter, wrong
fight; though to be fair to Mailer when he wrote in 1974 about
Muhammad Ali v George Foreman, the greatest had yet to happen.
What Ali did when he took the heavyweight title from Foreman,
was a con job in the Zaire jungle. A better tide for the book would
have been 'The Sting'.

WBC super-bantamweight champion Wilfredo Gomez pins Roberto
Rubaldino on the ropes on his way to an eighth round stoppage
win. Now he is preparing for his defence against WBC bantamweight
king Lupe Pintor.

IN his hey-day, Jack Roberts of Drury Lane, London, was a
popular favourite at the National Sporting Club. He was not
a great boxer, but he could punch and you never knew quite
what to expect of him. The fact that both his ears were
cauliflowered showed that he was a give-and-take fighter.