Boxing News magazine 6.7.1990 Download pdf

Boxing News magazine 6.7.1990 Download pdf
Boxing News Magazine 1990 Memorabilia
 

NIGEL BENN'S promised land of mega-purses has filled
with problems.
Benn is scheduled to defend his WBO middleweight
title on August 18 in Las Vegas against former WBC
champion Iran Barkley and there was also talk of a
money spinner against Sugar Ray Leonard in November.

COMMONWEALTH super-featherweight champion Mark
Reefer may have to be content with what he has already
achieved after another shattering excursion into world
class at the Albert Hall.
Back in February at Bretwood, Reefer was cut, outclassed
and stopped in eight rounds by European champion
Daniel Londas.

FANS are gradually seeing less of Miguel Matthews
although he is one of the Britain's busiest boxers. That's
because the incredible shrinking man has dropped from
9st 91bs lightweight to 8st 61bs bantamweight in the 21
months he has been a professional.

EDDIE COTTON, one of the best light-heavyweights of the
1950s and early 1960s, has died of liver failure at the age of
63. He died from an infection from his second liver
transplant in the last two months.
Cotton was a wonderful ring technician and one of the
best fighters to come out of the North-West coast of
America, but had the ill-luck to be in his prime while the
amazing Archie Moore was still around.
Only when Moore was gone did the man from Seattle get
his big chance. And then, at the age of 34, he lost a split
15-round decision to 33-year-old Harold Johnson for the
National Boxing Association title.

IN a minor upset, rough-and-ready Brett "The Irish
Hawk" Lally swarmed all over Robert "Bam Bam"
Hines to capture the vacant NABF light middleweight title
via a fourth-round stoppage at Harrah's Hotel/Casino.
Lally, from Westland, Michigan, never gave the smoothboxing
Philadelphian a chance to find his rhythm. Instead
of charging straight at his opponent, Lally alternated
between backpedalling around the ring and sudden,
leaping attacks.