Boxing News magazine 2.6.1989 Download pdf

Boxing News Magazine 1989 Memorabilia

GLENN McCRORY could complete one of the
great fairy stories of British boxing when he meets
African enigma Patrick Lumumba for the vacant
IBF cruiserweight title at the Louisa Centre,
Durham, tomorrow.

BRITISH boxing should enjoy a throwback night next
Wednesday when flyweights Duke McKenzie and Dave
McAuley dispute the IBF version of the world championship.
In the first half of the century British flyweights had more
success than those of any other nation. Great fighters like
Jimmy Wilde and Benny Lynch, and good ones from the
original champion Sid Smith of Bermondsey to Islington
tearaway Terry Allen, held the world title.

A NIGHTMARE haunts the darkest recesses of Dave "Boy"
McAuley's mind. Though he professes that he no longer lets it worry
him, the nagging memory of how close he came to being a world
champion will dog him for the rest of his life.
No matter what the future holds — and the former British
flyweight champion sees nothing but success — the stark reality is
that he let slip the greatest chance he will probably ever get to capture
the ultimate prize.

SCOTTISH heavyweight champion Richard Martin has quit the sport in protest at what he
considers unfair treatment from the Scottish ABA.
Martin, a 24-year-old, English-born locksmith from Aberdeen, says he will not turn
professional.
But he has written to Scottish ABA secretary Frank Hendry, formally announcing his
retirement as a direct result of a dressing room incident at a meeting of Scottish and Irish
select sides at Dundee on May 11.