Boxing News magazine Download 17.12.1982.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  17.12.1982.pdf

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

Chacon's thrilling victory

Sparkling Allen sees off Christie

Uproar as Dokes beats Weaver in a minute

Dice loaded against England boys in Finland

LATE substitutes DENNIS SULLIVAN and BOBBY
WELBURN topped the bill at the Headland Hotel on
the first professional boxing show in Cornwall for two
years.
The dinner-boxing promotion of Roger Moyle and
Neil Roberts was hit by a succession of withdrawals
but Plymouth's Sullivan and Welburn of Hull staged a
good main event, Sullivan finishing a clear 80-77 points
winner after eight threes.

UNDEFEATED Michael Dokes won the WBA
heavyweight title in the biggest boxing controversy
of the year when his fight with defending champion
Mike Weaver was stopped after just 63
seconds of the first round at a packed Caesars
Palace Sports Pavilion.
Weaver was covering up on the ropes when Las Vegas
referee Joey Curtis stopped the fight. The crowd of about
4,500 chanted an obscenity and then began to shout:
"Fix, Fix".

IN capturing the WBC junior-lightweight crown from Rafael 'Bazooka'
Limon, Bobby Chacon gave the world a glimpse of a heart so
large and a fighting spirit so unyielding that it left you awe-struck and
breathless.
Chacon, who was a seven to two underdog, and was given almost no
chance to win, climbed off the canvas twice and survived a vicious
beating from Limon, only to come back in the 15th round and knock
the champion almost senseless. Although Limon beat the count and
was saved by the bell, forcing the fight to a decision, there was no
doubt in anyone's mind at ringside that the world had a new champion.

WHO are the most exciting fighters in the UK? And
what makes them exciting? These are the questions
ERNIE CASH sets out to answer.
There are plenty of crowd-pleasers around, who
always move forward and throw plenty of leather;
but they usually soak up more than they give and
lose more fights than they win.

A WREXHAM teenager who overcame a serious heart condition won his fight for
life by winning his first major award, and in his fourth bout.
David Downward, 17, was named best boxer of the evening at Ludlow,
Shropshire. Wrexham trainer Charles Turnbull, who runs a boxing club at the
town's Queens Park Youth centre was approached by David in the hope he could
become a boxer, but when Charlie found out that David had suffered from a heart
condition in his early teens, he did not hold much hope for him.
"David seemed keen and was always willing to do anything" said Charlie "And
he was dedicated to his training.
"We put him through tough tests as well as a rigorous medical to improve his
legs and chest". In the end David was given the chance to go into competition.
"At Ludlow he took his opponent apart, explained Charlie, and he was so
pleased with himself.
David took up boxing as a hobby and trains three nights a week." I'll do
anything for boxing, said David, It means everything to me". David is looking
forward to a forthcoming bout at Shrewsbury in the next few weeks.
"I never thought I would get the chance to box, said David "But I hope this is the
start of the chance I have been waiting for".