Boxing News magazine Download 24.12.1982.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  24.12.1982.pdf

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

Bruno the face of 83

Coetzee gets frozen out ot Holmes fight

GILBERT ODD Britain's leading ring historian

PROSPECT WILLIAMS OUTCLASSES GREER

ONE of the questions I am asked after giving a talk on
boxing, is whether I have ever come across any 'fixed' fights
or 'arranged' matches in the course of my ringside reporting.
I get out of this by saying that although on occasions I
have had my suspicions about the sincerity of the boxers, I
have never been able to prove they were fighting to a prior
agreement.
Then I tell them the story of how Pete Herman, the world
bantamweight champion, aided and abetted by his chief
challenger, Joe Lynch, tricked Jimmy Wilde out of a world
tide bout.
By the end of 1920 Wilde was not only flyweight champion
of the world, but a terror to all the bantams and
feathers he had been called upon to meet because he had
licked everyone of note in his own class.
Recendy returned from a highly successful tour of
America, he was the best box-office draw in England, even
at the age of 29.

MIKE McCALLUM, the New York-based Jamaican lightmiddleweight,
punched his way into the big time by scoring
a seventh-round TKO over former WBA champion Ayub
Kalule at the Sands Hotel and casino in Atlantic City a little
while back.
The one-sided massacre was promoted by Main Events
and televised by NBC.
Those of us who know McCallum from his four New
York bouts had not expected a different outcome - we
wondered only about the round.
Sugar Ray Leonard and Dave Moore, who were the only
one to have defeated the Ugandan southpaw, had much
tougher times by comparison.
McCallum got in seven rounds of uninterrupted shooting
practice. The victory was his 17th and the 16th inside
distance.

THERE has been a tremendous surge of action on the
European title stage. In the last couple of months or so there
have been title bouts in every division.
The introduction of the Benelux titles has also sparked
some interest and in Temse in Belgium the vacant bantamweight
title was decided when Mohamed Maalem
outpointed Rafael Blanco over 10 rounds. Neither fighter is
Belgian as Maalem is from Morocco and Blanco from Spain,
but both are based in the country.

HOLDEN LANE welterweight star Andy Roberts, now a
professional with manager Ron Gray, wound up a fine amateur
career by outpointing Royal Oak's Paul Harrison at the
Razzamatazz, Jollees, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.