Boxing News magazine Download 7.2.1975.pdf

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Boxing News 1975 Memorabilia

BRITISH champions Maurice Hope and Dave Needham are the official top-liners
on Mike Barrett's Albert Hall bill on Tuesday, but most interest is likely to centre
on the featherweight 10-rounder between Alan Richardson and Vernon Sollas.

BRITISH featherweight champ Evan Armstrong, a throwback fighter with true
grit, has decided to retire. He was to have defended against old rival Jimmy Revie
but explained: "My heart's not in the game any more."

LEICESTER'S Tim Wood (12-9%) scored his second win as a light-heavyweight
when he stopped outclassed Nigerian Guinea Roger (12-9) in the fifth of their
scheduled eight-rounder at the Anglo-American Sporting Club. Roger was fresh
from a win over David Fry five days earlier, but never had a chance against Wood.

NEW YORK: Ken Norton — and not George Foreman as
previously announced — will meet Argentina's Oscar
Bonavena in a 12-round heavyweight fight on March 24,
which will form part of a closed-circuit television twin bill
with the Muhammad Ali v Chuck Wepner title fight.

BRITISH lightweight champion Jim Watt, who regained
the title by stopping Johnny Cheshire in seven rounds last
week, could soon be a dual champion. The Commonwealth
Championships Committee, meeting in London last week,
stripped Jamaican veteran Percy Hayles of his title and
ordered Watt and Jonathan Dele of Nigeria to contest the
vacant championship by April 30.

ONLY TWO champions — flyweight Willie Straub and light-heavy Duncan Berndt — will
not be defending their titles when the Scottish Championships get underway with
preliminary rounds at Meadowbank, Edinburgh tomorrow (3pm).

IT WILL be a major surprise if exciting light-heavyweight
Billy Knight fails to make it seven straight wins when he
meets New York's Freddie Bright in an eight-rounds
supporting bout on the Albert Hall programme.
The pair were due to have fought on the postponed
Stracey v Lewis bill, but the date switch may have been
merely a stay of execution for the American.
Knight was taken the distance last time out by capable
New Yorker Randy Stevens at Bethnal Green in December,
but won by a massive points margin and will have profited
from the experience.