Boxing News magazine 17.3.1978 Download pdf

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ELTHAM'S popular Dave Smith warmed up for his
Southern Area bantamweight title fight next month
by clearly outpointing brave Bryn Griffiths of the
Rhondda Valley over eight fine rounds at Manor
Place Baths.

POWER-PUNCHING Mick Mills, Islington, gave another
exciting display as he blasted out Albert 'Gypsy' Smith of
Sheffield in just one minute 45 seconds of the second of the
scheduled eight-twos main event at the Twentieth Century
Sporting Club, writes Harry Mullan.

CRAWLEY'S Mickey Minter convincingly outscored Luton
trier Roy Commosioung, a late substitute for the
indisposed Terry Knight, at the Town Hall, referee Roland
Dakin scoring 80-77 after eight rather untidy three minute
rounds.

PIEDRAS NEGRAS is a t o u g h Mexican f r o n t i e r town
with a long tradition for producing hard punching
scrappers and staging exciting c o n t e s t s between the
best fighters f r om b o t h sides of t h e border.
The Mexican-American confrontation staged on February
27,1976 looked decidedly one-sided on paper. The local
boy was Mario Castro, the bantamweight champion of
Coahuila State with the. scalps of Halimi Gutierrez,
Famosito Gomez, Earl Large and Lupe Hernandez on his
belt, and a high ranking in the national ratings.

T I T L E favourites GEORGE G I L B O D Y and A N DY
PALMER are out of the ABA's — lightweight Gilbody
(St Helens) was beaten by the 'flu bug and Palmer, the
massive England heavyweight from the Liverpool
Golden Gloves club, was outpointed in a major upset
by Mancunian D A N N Y L A W F O R D in the Northw
e s t e r n C o u n t i e s c h a m p i o n s h i p f i n a l s at the
Stadium.