Boxing News magazine Download PDF 3.1.1975

Boxing News Downloadable PDF  3.1.75

Boxing News 1975 Memorabilia

HE RESEMBLES a choir boy with his cherubic features
and dark curly hair. He's as quiet as a church mouse, a shy
unassuming little man. In fact Rodolfo Martinez could be
the antithesis of a typical boxer.

LORD (MANNY) SHINWELL is caught between heavyweight champion
Danny McAlinden and challenger Bunny Johnson, but it's all in good fun. The
fighters visited Manny at the House of Commons to sign contracts for their
January 13 title battle at the World Sporting Club. They also presented
Manny with cassette recordings of speeches made at the WSC evening in his
honour last October. Holiday camp boss Fred Pontin, who sponsors the title
fight, is just visible behind Johnson.

HE HAS a name that is hard to spell and even more
difficult to pronounce, but it is a name that you are
going to see and hear a lot more of in the future. For
Vito Antuofermo aims to emulate his hero, Jake
LaMotta, and win the middleweight championship of
the world.

PHILADELPHIA middleweight Bobby "Boogaloo"
Watts is tall and lean, his disposition quiet, his
reflexes extremely quick. A naturally talented boxer,
Bobby can be brilliant. He can also be frustrating and
sometimes dull. It is this inconsistency that is the root
of his current dilemma.

BOXING'S full of fighters who beat champions in non-title bouts but never landed
a championship contest. One such was Liverpool ex-featherweight Bernard Pugh,
who wrote in this week with some interesting reminiscences of his fighting days.

HIGHLIGHTING Maple Leaf's last tournament of 1974 was
the clash of international lightweights STAN ATHERTON
(Florence Inst) and TONY CARROLL (Lee Jones). It was a
contest that lived up to expectations, with speedy, precision
boxing and though Carroll's punches carried slightly more
sting it was Atherton's fractionally higher work rate that
earned a majority vote.

THE omens were bad for this year's Hungarian national
championships  the 51st such event  and what followed
in the ring of Budapest's renovated Sportcsarnok fully
confirmed the desultory expectations. Standards were light
years below those of last year.

HAVING annexed the cruiser world title to his earlier
achievements at the recent World Amateur Championship
in Havana, Yugoslav idol Mate Parlov apparently feels that
he has done enough for Tito and country as an amateur of
sorts in the course of a highly distinguished, 11 year career
and now wants to join the professionals. It appears the
hierarchy have decided otherwise, and Parlov has decided
to force their hand by announcing his retirement.