Boxing News magazine Download 23.7.1982.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  23.7.1982.pdf

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

Moore hammers weary Kalule

Gumbs is an ideal match for Sibson

Time for Czyz to move up

WORLD AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIPS

IF you have any doubts that boxing is a family business, just
have a look at today's top fighters.
Larry Holmes ha s a brother, Mark, who is a world-rated
middleweight, Mike and Leon Spinks both won world
tides, Dwight Braxton's brother Tony is on the fringe of the
light-middleweight rankings, and Marvin Hagler's halfbrother
Robbie Sims is a promising middleweight.
Wilfred Beniteu has two brothers who fought professionally
and Sugar Ray Leonard's brother Roger recently
returned to action.

ANDY SMITH had his father staying with him at their
luxury bungalow in St Ives in the early summer. But the talk
was not of Joe Bugner or Dave Green but of Andy's boy
Robert who will carry on the family name in the fight game
in September as "R. W. Smith".
The unbeaten light middleweight was missing most of last
season nursing an injured hand. That's healed and he could
be on the first bill at the York Hall, Bethnal Green, where he
has fought with success in the past.
Andrew Smith Senior was 77 the other day and he has
worn well for a man who had over 400 fights at big shows
and in the booths.

TONY SIBSON versus Murray Sutherland for the
Commonwealth middleweight championship! That
could be the first big fight of the next winter season.
Mickey Duff, short of personality punchers, has
discussed such a fight with Art Dore and with Sutherland,
the 27-year-old Scot from Leith.

FISTIC heroes sometimes rise to fame with meteoric swiftness,
but shooting stars do not remain long in the vision and
little Jim Higgins came and went in quick time, mainly
because, like so many before him and since, he was rushed
into things for which he was not ready.
Coal has produced many ring champions and Higgins was
one of them. Born at Hamilton, in 1897, he went into the
mines as a boy and was scrapping for years in pitmen's
matches before he ever thought of the professional side of
the game.