Boxing News magazine 14.1.1983 Download pdf

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WHEN Keith Wallace, the bright young flyweight from Merseyside, receives the
Best Young Boxer of the Year award from the Boxing Writers' Club at Grosvenor
House next Wednesday (Jan 19) he will be only the third Merseyside winner in 32
years.
Previous Liverpool winners were Alan Rudkin (1964) and John Conteh (1973).
It is surprising if we think of all the champions Merseyside has produced over the
years, but Wallace should be encouraged by the fact that Conteh went on to win a
world tide and Alan Rudkin made three gallant bids to lift the world bantam
crown, losing by narrow points margins against Masahiko Harada in Tokyo and
Lionel Rose in Melbourne.

THE WBA have ordered a rematch between Michael
Dokes and Mike Weaver for the WBA heavyweight tide.
This follows the controversial ending to the fight in Las
Vegas on December 10 when Dokes won the title from
Weaver on a much disputed stoppage after just one minute
three seconds of round one.
WBA president Gilberto Mendoza of Venezuela said in
Panama City that the WBA made its decision in a special
meeting.

FOR my own personal look back at 1982 the Fighter ol the
Year Award would go to Aaron Pryor with the Wilfredo
Gomez-Lupe Pintor bout getting the best fight award.
Gomez and Hilario Zapata both showed how good champions
can come back from bad defeats.
Marvin Hagler and Jeff Chandler miss nominations only
because their opposition was weak. Incidentally Chandler is
taller than light-heavyweight champion Dwight Braxton.
Ignoring British boxers, my European Fighter of the Year
would be Luigi Minchillo with Rudi Koopmans deserving
an honourable mention.

SCOTLAND'S National coach BOBBY NEILL has had
his contract with the Scottish Amateur Boxing Association
renewed for one more year amid calls from certain
executive council members for his sacking, writes
DEREK BURNS.
The cries for the London-based Neill's sacking came at
a stormy meeting held on December 12 in Edinburgh,
where some dissatisfied members of the Scottish Executive
Council called for a new face to takeover as National
coach.