Boxing News magazine 23.12.1983 Download pdf

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COLIN JONES could become the first man to pick
up a Boxing News fighter of the year award without
winning a bout in the 12 months in question!
Jones carried the banner of British boxing with
pride, during two heart-rendingly close fights against
talented Milton "Ice Man" McCrory for the World
Boxing Council welterweight title vacated by Sugar
Ray Leonard.
Both were sensational, classic batdes - but in the
first, in Reno, Nevada, in March, the judges came up
with a draw. And in the second, almost five months
later in Las Vegas, McCrory took a hody-disputed
split decision.

CHARLIE MAGRI is staring at the pieces of his shattered
career as the New Year beckons, but 1983 at least saw the
fulfilment of his long-held dreams. He became the flyweight
champion of the world - and therefore must rank high in
any short list of "Fighters of the Year".
Magri had undergone a barrage of criticism since his
suspect chin was "found out" in October 1981 when unheralded
Mexican Juan Diaz knocked him out In six rounds at
the Albert Hall.

MIDDLEWEIGHT Tony Sibson, the happy-go-lucky 25-
year-old Leicester fighter, was already a veteran of 51 professional
fights spread over nearly seven years when he had
the audacity to challenge the self-styled Marvelous Marvin
Hagler for the undisputed world title in snow-clogged Worcester,
Massachusetts, in February.

JOLTIN' JEFF CHANDLER of Philadelphia
got down to business and retained his WBA
bantam title in impressive fashion by stopping
Oscar Muniz of Los Angeles in the seventh of
their scheduled 15-rounder at the Sands Casino
Hotel.

IT was shades of Mark Kaylor as unbeaten youngster Juan
Arroyo threw away his unbeaten record by getting disqualified
at Miami on December 8 in an ESPN-TV main event.
Cockney middleweight Kaylor hit Tony Cerda after the
bell in a fight the British champ was winning. Same sort of
thing happened at Miami.

ABA light-middleweight champion Rod Douglas set England
on the road to a deserved 8-3 victory over West Germany
at the City Hall when he hustled lanky soldier
Manfred Zielonka to an overwhelming points defeat.
Zielonka, who became the first boxer to wear a headguard
in an international match in Britain.