Boxing News magazine 16.3.1990 Download pdf

Boxing News magazine 16.3.1990 Download pdf
Boxing News Magazine 1990 Memorabilia
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BRIGHTON'S Chris Eubank won the first of what could be
several titles when he stopped Hugo Corti of Argentina in
eight rounds for the WBC International middleweight
crown before a large crowd at York Hall.
The end came officially because of a cut over the
champion's left eye, but he had been floored in the sixth
and looked well behind on points as Eubank boxed with
precision and authority.

VETERAN Najib Daho's Commonwealth
lightweight title comes under threat on
Wednesday (March 21) when he defends
against former ABA finalist Carl Crook on
Barry Hearn's Matchroom promotion at the
Guild Hall, Preston.

DORKING'S John Baker ran up an early
lead and held on to it, taking a hard-earned
verdict over Ghana's very willing Kid
Sumaila in a gruelling eight twos at
Allders Department Store.

MICHAEL ARMSTRONG straightened out his record with a
fiery 10-round points win over Russell Davison in a
marvellous battle of Manchester featherweights at the
Kings Hall.
riVs "Fight Night" programme pulled out of the show
when the British light-heavyweight title light between Tom
Collins and Steve McCarthy fell through. A septic thumb
forced Collins to withdraw.

1 WAS disappointed to hear that Jorge Paez intends to
stay at featherweight. There were rumours that he never
did manage to make the weight for his defence against
Troy Dorsey, but that Dorsey's management waived the
requirement so that Paez would not lose the title on the
scales. Now Paez is going to continue a battle that has
ruined many good fighters.

ITALIAN Francesco Damiani has had to pull
out of his scheduled WBC heavyweight title
defence against Pierre Coetzer because of a
sudden disease, it was reported.
The match has been put back several times
since last year when it was switched from Puerto
Rico to Italy.

GLASWEGIAN Ronnie Carroll's unanimous
12 rounds points loss against Vincenzo
Belcastro ended in disgraceful
scenes when the Scot (right) was forced to
run a gauntlet of frenzied Italian fans.
"That was the most frightening experience
of my life," Carroll said when he
arrived back in Scotland on Monday. "1 was
sure they were going to lynch me."

NOTTINGHAM lightweight TONY RICHARDS
got off the floor to lose on points over eight
rounds to former Olympic featherweight
champion GIOVANNI PARISI.
Richards won the first round, but then lost
the second before being dropped for the
first time in the third. Tony was launching
an attack when Paris! countered with a
straight right that knocked him down.

SEYMOUR JOHNSON has not been the
luckiest of boxers. His first two ABA title
bids ended in disqualification, and when
he did finally win the national crown
what should have been the crowning
moment of his career was tainted by
controversy as Wembley opponent Henry
Wharton was thrown out.
And if that wasn't enough, a knee
cartilage injury and subsequent operation
kept middleweight Johnson out of
the sport for months and ruled out any
chance of an England appearance.

MARTIN HARLEY (Fisher) won through to his first London ABA final with a second round
stoppage of Battersea's Paul Hersey in the semi-finals at York Hall.
Harley had to work against Hersey, who moved and scored well with punches of his
own in the opening round. The tight rallies of the first, with both scoring, changed in the
second as Harley started to cut down the space to set Hersey up.
Hersey was tagged by a heavy, long cross to the stomach and reeled away indicating
that his right hand was hurt, but Harley edged closer as Paul quickly moved off with his
hands held high.

CUBAN POWER and German skills were the
dominant factors in the fourth Challenge
Cup Matches held at the Deutschlandhalle.
These THREE nations (because there's still a
difference between East and West German
athletes) had 14 competitors in the official
rematches of the 1989 World Championships
held in Moscow and finished with nine
victories. The USA, Romania and the USSR
shared the other three triumphs. The fighting
distance was five twos!