Boxing News magazine Download 16.4.1982.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  16.4.1982.pdf

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

Relentless too much Halford is for Allen

Gomez is now the greatest stopper ol all

Hit-man Adams shatters one of Britain's best

Out goes Hanlon as Henry claws his way back

FIGHT of the night at the Albert Hall
could be the 10 rounds official eliminator
for the British tide between light-welterweights
Chris Sanigar and Sylvester
Mittee.
The two are old amateur rivals (Chris beat
Mittee on points in the ABA's), and Sanigar
has long sought a professional meeting with
Mittee.

BIG JOHN TATE won clearly enouugh but laboured
against veteran local Leroy Caldwell on an ESPN-TV show
from Las Vegas. Tate dug in some good left hooks to the
ribs, but Caldwell seemed to shake him a couple of times
with left hooks in the last three rounds, when he at last did
some fighting. And Leroy is no banger.

THIS column on boxing in the United States will attempt to go
behind the scenes — to explore the whys and wherefors behind the
facts the well-informed boxing fan is already familiar with.
Most of you know by now that Detroit's Thomas Hearns took his
first step into the middleweight ranks in preparation for an eventual
match with middleweight boss Marvin Hagler by winning a lopsided
ten-rounder over Philadelphia's tough Ernie Singletary.

GLOUCESTER Leisure Centre again proved a graveyard of champions
on a night of sensations in the All-England championships.
But never before has it claimed so illustrious a victim as George Gilbody and in
such humbling manner. An era closed as the five times ABA champion, at 27
bidding to equal the record of six tides and in a new division, was devastated in
one minute by 19-year-old South London hit-man Tony Adams.