Boxing News magazine 1.4.1983 Download pdf

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WHATEVER doubts existed before the fight about
the validity of Henry Brent's ranking in the WB A top
ten were removed by the quality of the performance
he gave in a splendid 10-rounder with Commonwealth
flyweight champion Keith Wallace at the
Bloomsbury Crest Hotel.
Wallace won deservedly, and will presumably take
over Brent's rating, but Brent gave him the hardest
fight of his unbeaten career and
convinced promoter Frank Warren,
who is also Wallace's manager, to
shelve plans to feature Keith in a championship
challenge (opponent unspecified)
next month.

STEVE SIMS of Newport, having
given up his British title, travels
to Sardinia, Italy, on Thursday
to contest the vacant European
featherweight title with unbeaten
Italian champion Loris Stecca,
over 12 rounds. The title became
unoccupied after Christmas when
former champ Pat Cowdell retired.

UNBEATEN heavyweight hopeful Frank Bruno tests
his chin again with a known puncher in the opposite
corner of the Albert Hall ring on Tuesday.
Bruno's opponent in the 10-rounds main event is the
Swindon southpaw Eddie Nielson, generally acknowledged
to be the best one-punch.hitter of the current
British heavyweight scene. That is, with the possible
exception of Bruno himself.

JEFF CHANDLER, the World Boxing Association bantam
champ, has something in common with middleweight king
Marvin Hagler: both want to go down in posterity as great
ones.
Chandler took a useful step in this direction when he
outpointed and all but outclassed Gaby Canizales over IS
rounds at Atlantic City on March 13 to make his seventh
successful title defence.

LARRY HOLMES returned to his Pennsylvania roots to defend his
WBC heavyweight title but it proved a less than satisfying home
coming as the champion laboured to outpoint Lucien Rodriguez of
France, the European champion, over 12 dull rounds.
The packed crowd of about 7,000 at the Scranton National Guard
Armory gave Holmes a roaring welcome. The mayor of this former
coal mining centre, now economically depressed, had declared the
week of the fight Larry Holmes Week.

COVENTRY featherweight Colin Lynch continued his amazing ABA championships run
in the quarter-finals of the Bushfield Sports Centre, Peterborough.
The 21-year-old from Triumph kept up his 100 per cent record of inside-tbe-distance wms by
stopping Mark Scholey of Patcham in the third round to reach the English semi-finals for the first time.
Lynch stormed into Scholey from the first bell and the Southern Counties champion had to take four
counts before it was stopped.

STOCKY and strong Fitzroy Lodge welterweight Chris Blake stormed to the
London title with his third inside schedule victory out of four when he kayoed
Battersea's Courtney Phillips in the third round of the finals at the Albert Hall.
And for fair haired Blake, a shock points conqueror of England international
Orrie Jones in the semi-finals, it was also a night of sweet revenge, as London
rep Phillips had outpointed him on a Lodge show in January.
It was a typically fearless and crowd pleasing display from Blake, a 20-yearold
scaffolder from Addiscombe, Croydon, which ended with Phillips, 23,
taking the full count from a mighty right hand 45 seconds from the final bell.