Boxing News magazine 28.8.1981 Download pdf

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THERE is a change of opponent for WBC junior lightweight
champion Cornelius Boza-Edwards in Italy tomor-
 row (Saturday). Instead of squaring off against old foe and
former title-holder Rafael Bazooka Limon of Mexico, he
meets the Philippines Rolando Navarette in the giant marquis
erected for the fight at Bussola, near Viareggio.
 Limon pulled out last week after failing to get clearance
from his doctor to fight after suffering a bout of flu.

I T S about time they stopped calling Johnny Carter the
S "Dancing Machine" because the world-ranked Philadelphia
 bantam has demonstrated a two-handed, aggressive style in
g recent fights.
5 Carter scored his fourth successive stoppage victory by
5 hammering Javier Flores, the game Mexican trial horse
Hfrom Salt Lake City, in six one-sided rounds at the Playboy
Club in Atlantic City.

WINNER of 41 consecutive contests and 10 national titles
before his 18th birthday in June, Errol Christie, almost too
good to be true in the ring, seems almost too good to be true
outside it. There are no complexities in his make-up at all.
The fourth son of a West Indian Methodist lay preacher
Errol, who was born at Leicester, attends church regularly.

JUAN LAPORTE, a Puerto Rican from Brooklyn, captured
the US Boxing Association featherwight title, by
knocking out defending champion Rocky Lockridge of
New Jersey after two minutes 52 seconds of the second
round in a scheduled 12 rounder at the Showboat Hotel.
The fight was spectacular while it lasted and the shock
win earned 21-years-old Laporte a crack at Eusebio Pedroza
of Panama - a ringside spectator - for the WBA title.
Lockridge, 5-1 on favourite,