Boxing News magazine 8.8.1997 Download pdf

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A TRIBUTE to late heavyweight Simon Templar came from Colin Fairbrother,
who sent me the obituary for a local paper. His real name was
Andy Pinkeny, a Jamaican who was an aircraft engineer with the RAF and
settled in the town of Burton. He took his ring name, not from " The Saint"
as in the books by Leslie Chareris and later films, but from a Wild West
character in a film he had seen. He started his career in local gym at the
back of a pub in 1948 and met champions Joe Erskine and Joe Bygraves. He
was also a good club cricketer, and outside the ring a "gentle giant."

COMMONWEALTH light-welterweight
champion Bernard
Paul has the opportunity to prove
he is the better man against Zambian
Felix Bwalya, whom the
Commonwealth Council have
decided must get an immediate
rematch by the end of October.
Their decision was formed after
a controversial points win by Paul
at Bethnal Green in April which
sparked outrage from the African
camp and provoked an avalanche
of angry letters from our readers.
Paul, however, maintains the
verdict was fair, as does top referee
Larry O'Connell, who scored it.

FAMOUS Las Vegas gym-owner
and trainer Johnny Tocco died
last Friday after a lengthy illness. He
was 87. Tocco sold his establishment
in downtown Las Vegas several
weeks ago. The walls were lined with
photographs of great champions,
many of whom used the facility to
prepare for major championships -
from Sonny Liston, one of Tocco's
favourites, to Mike Tyson, who
favoured the gym for much of his
reign as champion first time around.
Tocco was involved in boxing from
the age of 12, relocating from St.
Louis to Las Vegas 41 years ago.
Marc Ratner, head of the Nevada
Commission, said: "He was my closest
friend in boxing. He was a valuable
aid." Promoter Bob Arum called
him: "A giant in the business, who
had an abiding love for boxing.

CARL "THE TRUTH"
WILLIAMS is still in there
at 37 trying for one more big
payday. He kept his hopes alive
in Portchester on June 13 with
a unemimous verdict over
MARION WILSON.