Boxing News magazine 11.11.1988 Download pdf

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BRITISH lightweight champion Steve Boyle made up for
what he lacks in subtlety with the brutal power of his
southpaw left hook as he made a successful first defence of
his title.
Boyle destroyed game challenger Joey Jacobs in eight
rounds before a wildly enthusiastic crowd of around 1,800
at the' smaller of the Kelvin Hall arenas.

HITCHIN ' S Andy Straughn is now just
one title defence short of making the
Lonsdale Belt his own possession after
outworking Paddington's former champion
Tee Jay to regain his old cruiserweight
crown on Frank Warren's promotion
at the Rivermead Centre.

TONY KcKENZIE'S dreams of a British lightwelterweight
title return with Lloyd Christie vanished on a
tragic night at the Granby Halls.
McKenzie was stopped in two rounds by a moderatelooking
Tunisian named Abdelatif Lofti Ben Sayel in front
of a sparse home crowd.

JIM McDONNELL's brave bid to become
the WBA junior-lightweight (9st 4lbs)
champion of the world ended in disappointment
when he was unanimously outscored
over 12 rounds by South African titleholder
Brian Mitchell at the Elephant and
Castle Leisure Centre.

Sugar Ray Leonard showed the qualities
of true greatness as he picked
himself off the floor and came back to
chop down Canada's Donny Lalonde in
the ninth round to become the ring's first
world champion at five weights.