Boxing News magazine 20.1.1984 Download pdf

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EUROPEAN and British featherweight champion
Barry McGuigan is featured along with the British
flyweight championship. He fights Charm Chiteule
in a 12 rounds final eliminator for the Commonwealth
featherweight title, but it is McGuigan
who is the big draw rather than Russell.
The Commonwealth title is held by another
African, Azumah Nelson. Nelson is a really good
fighter - he gave the late Salvador Sanchez a grim
15 rounds for the world title.

THE LATEST, and surely the final, attempt to revitalise the
sagging career of veteran heavyweight Joe Bugner got underway
in the improbable setting of a handball arena in the Danish
provincial town of Randers, where the former European and
British champion took an unconvincing 10-rounds decision over
Sweden's Anders Eklund.

THE first genuine title contender to see action in 1983
was welterweight Lloyd Hibbert of West Bromwich.
He'd already lost his unbeaten record to fellow Midlander
Cliff Gilpin, but had fought his way back
towards an eliminator against Lloyd Honeyghan.
Handicapped by a sixth round eye cut, Hibbert
laboured over the last few rounds of the 10-rounder
and lost a one point decision.

BRITAIN'S Tony Sibson suffered a disastrous blow to his
world middleweight championship hopes as he was cut
over the eye, floored four times, and stopped in the eighth
round by "Dangerous" Don Lee, a tall black fighter from
Louisiana at the Sands casino hotel.
The scheduled 10-rounder, televised nationally in
America, was a thriller, with Sibson dropping his opponent
twice only for Lee to rally right back.
It was the first major surprise of the boxing year as Lee,
an unheralded 23-year-old, rose to the occasion in the
most important bout of his career.