Boxing News magazine 29.12.1985 Download pdf

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BOXING in his home town for only the second time in a five-year professional career, Ken
Foreman won the vacant Northern Area Welterweight Championship with a 10-round
points victory over Darlington's Neil Patterson on Gus Robinson's first class bill at the
Borough Hall.
Referee Fred Potter marked it for the local southpaw 99-97, presumably six rounds to
two with two even. But the bare scoreline doesn't tell the full story of this contest, a
tremendous battle waged between two superbly fit fighters in front of 800 excited fans.
Foreman was far more experienced, but Patterson fought with great heart, impressing
ringside spectator John Conteh.

ATLANTIC CITY — November 22: Marlon Starling
retained his USBA welterweight title and clinched a world
title fight as he hammered out a split 12-round decision over
the previously undefeated Simon Brown at the Sands casino
hotel.

THE POSTPONEMENT of the Marvin Hagler v John
Mugabi fight set me to thinking about title defences.
Both the WBC and the WBA have strict rules about how
often a champion must defend his title, and, in particular,
how much time is allowed to elapse between mandatory
defences.
In Marvin Hagler's case, he has defended his title only
once in the last 13 months, and that was against Hearns
which was not a mandatory defence.

JOHNNY KING held the British bantamweight title for 15
years, apart from 15 months when Dick Gorbett took it off
him. So to get another match with Corbett, Johnny had to
make sure he didn't blot his copybook. Thus he didn't
expect too much trouble from a young Welshman named
Len Beynon, even though the bout was on Len's home
ground at Swansea