Boxing News magazine Download PDF 15.9.1972

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PHIL MATTHEWS, an exciting Lancashire puncher with fan-appeal is
strongly fancied to batter the British middleweight title awav from Bunnv
Sterling at Belle Vue, Manchester on Tuesday.

IRELAND'S hopes of an Olympic medal crashed when the last of their sixman
team, flyweight Neil McLaughlin, was stopped in the last round of his
flyweight quarter-final against Leo Rwabogo, of Uganda.

THERE can be no mistaking the message from the Munich Olympic Games
of 1972. The triumph has been one for Cuba with three gold medals, warning
the world that theirs is the country of new rising strength.

JOHN KELLIE, who lost his British bantamweight title chance after two
stoppage defeats, bids to win the vacant Commonwealth crown when he
meets Paul Ferreri, the Australian champion, in a Melbourne ballroom tomorrow
(Saturday).

RICKY PORTER, Swindon  survived cuts
around the eyes to outpoint Des Morrison, St
Ives and capture the vacant Southern
Area welterweight title in a pleasing 12-rounder
at the World Sporting Club.

BRITISH featherweight champion Ronnie Clayton of Blackpool, somewhat
exhausted and battle weary, looked a bewildered fighter in the dressing
room at Empress Hall, London, on April 30, 1951.

RUMOURS that the return fight between world heavyweight
champion Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali could
take place at Wembley stadium next June have bounced
across the Atlantic. But the news this week is that the
fight is practically tied up for California's Inglewood
Forum.