Boxing News magazine 11.11.1983 Download pdf

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NOEL QUARLESS, Britain's unlikely new heavyweight
hope, took just three minutes 30 seconds to crush the comeback
hopes of former European and British champion John
L. Gardner. Gardner retires to
Referee Roland Dakin rescued Gardner half a minute into
the second round of the scheduled 10-round main event on
Frank Warren's troubled promotion at the Bloomsbury
Crest Hotel, and John announced his retirement before
leaving the ring.

BRITISH featherweight champion Barry McGuigan
starts as an overwhelming favourite to win the European
title when he challenges Italian Valerio Nati for the
vacant title at King's Hall, Belfast, on Wednesday.
The title was vacated by another Italian, Loris Stecca,
who himself won the vacant title in a fight-off against
Welshman Steve Sims. Sims in turn backed out of a
British title defence against McGuigan to challenge
Stecca but was stopped in five rounds. The title then was
vacated by PatTCowdell.
It seems the 9st EBU title is fated to become vacant
and to be contested between Italians and Britons. It's also
interesting to note that neither Sims nor Stecca fought
McGuigan.

PAUL CHANCE dug deep into his reserves to produce a
defiant last round that earned him a marvellously competitive
draw with Ray Cattouse over eight three-minute
rounds at Dudley Town Hall.
Cattouse (9st 121bs) had, after an uncertain start, edged
into a lead and looked to have secured his second comeback
win (since losing his British lightweight title) before Chance
(9st l0lbs) thrust himself forward in a desperate, but
successful, attempt to salvage the fight.

NICK WILSHIRE, the blond Bristol light-middle, made an
excellent impression with the American east coast fraternity
in his fourth round whacking of game trial horse Danny
Chapman at Atlantic City on October 21.
Wilshire had knocked over various unregarded opponents
out on the west coast in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Chapman
was his best test so far in the States.

ONE OF the main attractions of boxing is its international flavour which brings together
in violent confrontation people of widely varying backgrounds with a commonality of
purpose - to win.
A typical example was the WBC flyweight dtle fight at Wembley in September which
pitted the pride of London, Charlie Magri, against the almost unknown Filipino Frank
Cedeno.
A former tailor's cutter from Stepney in one of the biggest cities of the world against a
farmer's son from a small village on Cebu Island thousands of miles away.

AS EXPECTED, the powerful German Democratic Republic
chalked up an easy victory at the Leisure Centre, not so
much disgracing England as merely underlining once more
the gulf which exists in the sport between Eastern and
Western European nations.
The final scoreline for the perfectly-drilled East Germans
(their popular title in the West, by which they hate to be
known) was one of 9-3 and included two bouts forfeited by
the host country who were unable to supply either a
flyweight or heavyweight.
Fisher's ABA champion Steve Nolan, the originally
named fly, was taking a rest and John McBride of Repton,
chosen as his replacement, was nursing a hand injury.