Boxing News magazine Download PDF 21.7.1972

Boxing News 1972 Memorabilia

JIMMY CARTER went into the record books by becoming the first to win
the same world title three times. He is the only world lightweight champion
to have regained the title twice

READING about the forthcoming bantam title fight between Johnny Clark
and Paddy Maguire takes me back to when Paddy was an ambitious 17-yearold.
He sat with me in my club and we planned his amateur future.

EVEN in life, there was always something tragic, something unfortunate,
about Zora Folley, who died on July 8 when he struck his head on the edge
of a motel swimming pool in Tucson.
Zora Folley was only 41 when he died, leaving a wife and eight children . still a
young man. But he was, by choice and inclination, a fighter, and 41 is old for that.
Zora Folley was always old for a fighter.

MAURICE HOPE would not be one of Britain's gold diggers in Munich next
month had it not been for trainer Tony Burns. For after losing his sixth
senior contest to Frank Darling (St Marys) Maurice hung up his gloves and
hinted he might never box again.

IRISHMAN Ollie Byrne, surely the world's longestserving
amateur boxer, can look back proudly on
33 years in the game, except for a five-year break
in the sixties, over 40 international vests and
around 300 fights against the pick of the world —
including an Eskimo.

EDITOR Graham Houston w a s at the Dublin ringside on Wednesday t o bring
you the full story of Muhammed Ali's big fight against Alvin " Blue " Lewis.
Make sure you get next week's 24-page paper t o read bis gripping account.

BEFORE he climbs into the ring this autumn for a British
title challenge against Jamaican Bunny Sterling, Lancashire's
24-year-old middleweight sensation Phil Matthews
can become the centre of a big boxing storm.

BABY-FACED Alan Rudkin fought bravely in his bid to wrest the
world bantamweight title from Japan's crop-haired Fighting
Harada at Tokyo's Budokan Hall on November 30, 1965.
But, at the end of 15 thrilling rounds, Harada was awarded a
unnimous decision.

PERHAPS the most ridiculous decision to a fight was that with
Ken Buchanan and the slugger Roberto Duran.
For 13 hard rounds, Ken tried to box a man who defied the
laws of boxing. A man like Duran does not deserve to rule
over the world's lightweights. Duran hit with any part of the
glove, for a start. Then he hit low and eventually on the back,
and back of the neck.
Remember what happened to Ken when he had won the
title. The W.B.C. stripped him of his hard-won title. Ken had
done nothing against the law of boxing, yet Duran did nothing
correctly and is recognised as champ.
I demand an early rematch. As for Duran's impressive KO
record, anyone can get counted out if hit low, or on the neck.