Boxing News magazine 12.8.1983 Download pdf

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ALTHOUGH Pedro Vilella keeps winning I'm not entirely
sold on the southpaw welter from New York via Puerto
Rico. He throws plenty of punches and there's no doubting
his strength and stamina. Maybe it's that he's a bit of an
untidy fighter, prone to get involved in scrambles.
It was typical Vilella at the Felt Forum in New York on
July 8 (shown in a delayed telecast by USA cable network) as
he worked hard to win a unanimous 10-round decision over
Ed Green, a black from Houston, Texas.

TYRONE MOORE, a light-welter based at Las Vegas,
showed the sort of punch that could take him up the
world ratings as he stopped lanky ROBERTO HERNANDEZ,
of the Dominican Republic, in the sixth of
their scheduled 10-rounder at Tampa, Florida, on July
8, televised live over USA cable.
Moore, originally from Louisville, came in at three
days' notice. He replaced Michael "Solid Gold" Bradley,
who'd been held to a draw by Hernandez last
December.
Moore, who weighed 10 stone and was the lighter by
a quarter-pound, bided his time in an interesting battle
of wits.

THINGS are going well for Smokin' Joe Frazier as manager-
trainer to his family of Philadelphia crowd-pleasers.
Son Marvis is matched to meet Larry Holmes, younger son
Hector (ring name Smokin' Joe Frazier Jr.) is a bright lightwelter,
and heavyweight nephew Rodney Frazier is coming
along nicely.
Rodney, a 24-year-old former college gridiron football
player, won his sixth in a row by knocking out a tall black
named Mai Daniel in the second round at Resorts International,
Atlantic City on July 21.

LIKE any other organisation, The European Boxing Union
has its good points and its bad. On the credit side it keeps
European Champions active. No one is allowed to sit on his
title. He must defend or lose it.
The bad side is the political angle which throws up some
terrible matches. Some countries combine their votes on the
basis of the old "Back Scratching" principle - "You
support me on this, and I will support you on another vote."
Often a challenger gets a title shot, not because he has
earned it, but because it is his country's turn to supply a
challenger.

BRASH, flashy Hector "Macho" Camacho won the vacant
WBC junior-lightweight title by outclassing and overpowering
the veteran champ Rafael Bazooka Limon of Mexico in
the fifth of their scheduled 12-rounder at the open air Hiram
Bithorn Stadium.
A crowd of about 10,000 saw the unbeaten 21-year-old Camacho,
born in Puerto Rico but raised in New York, dominate every round
in a clash of southpaws.

MIDLAND light-heavy Jim Moran (Austin) could have
been forgiven for thinking international competition revolved
around Berlin until last week.
Moran has been selected alongside Mike Esa (Hull Fish
Trades) to compete in the hottest multi-nation tourney in
Europe the T.S.C. Berlin. Only five months ago Moran
travelled in a three-man team to West Berlin for the Intercup.