Boxing News magazine Download PDF 26.10.1973

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IF knowledge of bazookas, hand grenades and other
weapons of war mattered in boxing, then Joe
Bugner could be expected to worry about meeting
American heavyweight Mac Foster at Wembley on
November 13.

BACK from sunshine and a five-day stay among
British troops in Cyprus, European heavyweight
champion Joe Bugner was getting back in the gym
at St Ives, Hunts, last Sunday to prepare for his
November 13 clash with America's Mac Foster at
Wembley.

JOHNNY CLARK, Britain's world-class bantamweight
champion, takes on Italian titleholder Salvatore
Fabrizio at the Albert Hall on Tuesday in
defence of the European title which Clark won in
April.

DANNY McALINDEN refuses to fight seven-fight
novices and light-heavyweights while Joe Bugner is
going in with fighters like Frazier and Ali and
looking for Foreman. The public know the real
British heavyweight champion.

KEVIN FINNEGAN, Hayes, the Southern Area middleweight champion and
official challenger for Bunny Sterling's British crown, turned in an impressive
display of hard punching to stop game Bob Murphy, Hampstead, in the fourth
of a scheduled eight-rounder at the Anglo-American Sporting Club, Hilton
Hotel. 

PADDY BYRNE'S first attempt to get pro boxing
going again at Manor Place Baths starts on Monday
with a featherweight eight-rounder between former
amateur stars Mickey Piner (Camberley) and Martin
Galleozzie (Merthyr).

VITO ANTUOFERMO, the New York Italian, has
really made the headlines. He, I am assured by my
friends in New York — and primarily through
Malcolm Gordon, who gave me the news on this
fighter before the "aces" looked on with favour —
is exciting and a prospect without question.