Boxing News magazine 10.6.1983 Download pdf

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DISGRACED against Sugar Ray Leonard in 1980,
outpointed by Wilfred Benitez and Kirkland
Laing last year, Roberto Duran comes back for
what surely must be his last world title opportunity
when he challenges Davey Moore for the World
Boxing Association light-middle title at Madison
Square Garden on Thursday (June 16).
The fighter considered one of the great ones in a
lower-weight incarnation will be 32 on the day of
the fight. He's up against an opponent with far less
experience (only 12 bouts, all wins, against Duran's
79 fights in a 16-year career) but Moore's
bigger, faster, and most important of all, eight
years younger.

SINCE boxing provides so many moments of
drama, it is not surprising that we tend to forget
some of those fights of the past that stirred us so
much at the time.
One of those gems from the past was brought
vividly back to me when I met Joe Medel during
my brief visit to the Lupita gym in Mexico
City.
The man I met in 1983 was a portly 45-yearold
with the look of a prosperous businessman
and none of the scars of his old profession at
which he was such a great craftsman.
Meeting Joe took me suddenly back through
time to 1967 when a slimmer, less amiable
Medel crushed Walter McGowan in six rounds
at Wembley.

IN THE late 1920s Birmingham boxing was notable for two things. There were
more class flyweights around than anywhere else in the country and a preponderance
of Sunday tournaments. Both these circumstances form the ingredients for
this story.
If you felt inclined to watching fisticuffs on the Sabbath you had plenty of
choice. Either you could go to the Palais de Danse or the Paradise Street Rink at
West Bromwich, Ryle's Market at Smethwick, or the New Market in Great
Bridge. You could go in the morning, afternoon or evening and see a surfeit of
good boxing for a few bob. Those were the days when the fighters chased the
promoters, it's just the reverse today.

IT WAS interesting to note the recent speculation over who
would be challenging Charlie Magri for his WBC flyweight
title in September.
Santos Laciar and Juan Diaz were the favoured names,
but right now I can't see either of these turning up at
Wembley.
Laciar has his own committments regarding his WBA title
and would demand a fortune to come here. Diaz must surely
have blown his chances following his loss in Thailand and
his recent stoppage in six rounds by Guty Espadas.

THE youth and vitality of Marvis Frazier proved far too much for
Joe Bugner as the former British and European heavyweight
champion, now living in California, was well beaten on points over
10 rounds at the Sands Casino Hotel. But Bugner didn't seem
displeased with his showing and plans to box on.
Frazier, from Philadelphia, thus completed a family double. His
father, Joe Frazier, outpointed Bugner over 12 rounds in London
in 1973. Bugner's defeat against the younger Frazier marked only
the second time a fighter had fought both a father and son.
Jersey Joe Walcott knocked out a fighter named Phil Johnson in
1936 and in 1950 kayoed Phil's son, Harold, who later became
world light-heavyweight champion.

RHONDDA'S Martin Moloney lost in an unfortunate accident
on the Troedyrhiw dinner show, when he was stopped
in the first round by Russell Court of Trelewis.
Moloney was caught with a hard right to the body. He
tried to ward off the punch but was floored. He attempted to
rise but was unable to do so.