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MARVELOUS MARVIN HAGLER confirmed he stands
head and shoulders above the rest of the middleweight
division as he easily knocked out Wilford Scypion in the
fourth of their scheduled 15-rounder at the Civic Centre.
A near-capacity crowd of 13,100 saw the shaven-skulled
Hagler from Brockton, Massachusetts, outclass a 24-yearold
challenger who had been expected to give him a decent
fight.

ONE thundering right hand was enough to end the always
lukewarm interest taken by Barry Funches, the inappropriately
nicknamed "Punching Postman" from New York,
in his scheduled 10-rounder against Frank Bruno at the
Albert Hall, writes HARRY MULLAN.
The punch, a right uppercut, sent Funches sprawling. He
beat referee Harry Gibbs' count - just - but two more
rights knocked him sideways and Mr. Gibbs quickly
grabbed him and waved Bruno away after 52 seconds of the
fifth

BRAVE winner Bobby Chacon talks of quitting after two
more fights. Equally valiant loser Cornelius Boza-Edwards
will come again, but how much longer can be keep having
wars?
One of the most action-packed fights in recent years will
long be discussed. It won't soon be forgotten by those lucky
enough to have seen it, either in the arena at Caesars Palace,
Las Vegas or on the American NBC-TV network.
I was surprised when editor Harry Mullan told me over
the trans-Atlantic phone that British TV had missed picking
up the junior-lightweight "people's championship" for a live
showing.

THERE never was an American Olympic boxing squad to
equal the one that dazzled and destroyed the opposition in
Montreal in the summer of 1976. Six fighters through to the
finals, taking home five golds and one silver. Add them to
the one bronze medal and you had the greatest medal tally
ever picked up by an American boxing team.
It was a remarkable tribute to the excellent coaching of
Tom "Sarge" Johnson and Pat Nappi under manager Rollie
Schwartz. It was a tribute to the hard work in the gym, on
the road, and in the rings around the world as the Yanks
competed in some 30 international competitions leading up
to the Olympics.

SWANSEA, May 27: The
return Welsh light-welterweight
tide fight between
champion Ray Price and
challenger Geoff Pegler,
had to be abandoned after
t h e f i r s t r o u n d when
fighting broke out between
rival sets of supporters at
the Top Rank Suite, Swansea.

THERE'S no doubt that Channel 4 and their sports editor Adrian Metcalfe
took something of a flyer with their decision to broadcast a seven-week series
at prime time on a Monday night solely devoted to boys' club boxing.
Not in their most optimistic forecasts, however, did they realise just how
successful the series would become. Audiences have approached two million,
making it the most-watched sports programme ever on Channel 4 (beat
even the highly-touted basketball and American football), and those figures
shot the Golden Belt series into the national top-ten televised sports ratings
alongside such giants as "Grandstand" and "World of Sport".