Boxing News magazine Download PDF 22.12.1972

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IT'S Christmas, and heavyweight champ Joe
Frazier (right) and challenger George Foreman k|J
call a truce to pose for festive photos round a • »
Christmas tree. But there is no love lost between jg
them. And on January 22, all goodwill spirit will
be forgotten when they meet for the crown in
Kingston, Jamaica.

BRITAIN'S flyweight champion, John McCluskey, challenges
Switzerland's Fritz Chervet for the European title
in Zurich on Tuesday and is convinced he can become
champ on his third attempt.

GIL CLANCY, famous New York trainer, will be flying into Britain next
month to team up with Ken Buchanan when he makes his bid to rip the
British lightweight title from fellow Scot Jim Watt.

WESTREE lightweight Les Duddy outpointed
Southend's Ron Hinson in a close bout on the
Westree ABC charity show at the Invicta Park
Barracks. It was a majority decision.

ENGLAND international flyweight Peter Wakefield
(St Patrick's) was outpointed by York Club's
Richard Scarth on the St Patrick's ABC show in
aid of the Yorkshire Evening Post's Christmas
appeal.

JOHN CONTEH, Liverpool's controversial heavyweiht, meets
seasoned American James J. Woody over 10 rounds at Nottingham
Ice Stadium on January 15.
Woody holds three wins over Tony Doyle, who was stopped
in eight rounds by Joe Bugner at Wembley last month.
He has fought George Foreman, Oscar Bonavena and Buster
Mathis and beat Italy's Dante Cane, another recent Bugner
opponent.
Woody lost on a quarter-point-decision to Brian London,
the former British champion, at Liverpool in 1967.
The show scheduled for Nottingham's Great International
Sporting Club on January 15 will now take place on January
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