Boxing news Download. PDF 17.11.1973

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BRITAIN'S Chris Finnegan is no longer European
light-heavyweight champion and his projected
world title rematch with fearsome Bob Foster
looks a long way off.

AS AN ex-boxer and one who had plenty of fights
abroad, I take exception to Andy Smith's remarks
in Boxing News (October 27) when he stated that
only unpopular fighters go out of the country.

I WAS pleased that the British Boxing Board of
Control decided not to punish John H. Stracey
for his unfortunate disqualification when hitting
on the break against Bobby Arthur recently.

LLOYD WALFORD, Bradford-based Jamaican, meets Manchester's Jeff
Shaw at the Midland Hotel, Bradford on Tuesday with the vacant Central
Area light-heavyweight title on the line.

RICHARD DUNN, 27-year-old Halifax southpaw, claims he is a serious
heavyweight threat. On Monday, at the World Sporting Club, he gets the
chance to prove it when he meets Ray Patterson, a naturalised Swede from
Brooklyn, over eight rounds.

TOMMY FARR is a name that will be immortal whenever there is talk of
the greats in British boxing. There are many who contend he was the
greatest of all British heavyweights, who could have won the championship
of the world had he possessed a dynamite punch to go with his toughness

SCOTTISH international featherweight Vernon Sollas, returning to the ring
after a five-month break, demonstrated all his skills in stopping Midland
Counties champion Colin Flynn (Tile Hill, Coventry) in the third round of
the top-of-the-bill contest on the Markyate ABC dinner show.