Boxing News magazine Download PDF 28.12.1973

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UPSETS are the life-blood of boxing: without them the game would die. As in any
sport, it's the rank outsider who makes the news  if the hot favourite won every
time where would the interest lie?

TOMMY BURNS defended the world heavyweight title more frequently than
any other champion save Joe Louis. He punched with speed and power and
unlike every previous champion, he did not draw the colour bar.

PROBABLY the most fearsome-looking fighter of the last
20 years was the former New Jersey middleweight, Rubin
Carter. With his shaven head, mandarin moustache,
bulging biceps and steely gaze, he was said to put fear
into many opponents.

IT was a night of big hitting at the Assembly Rooms
when a Western Counties side whipped the Royal Navy
7-3. Four of the bouts finished inside a round and another
in the second.
Gloucester dustman Johnny Hird headed the punch parade
with a perfect right hand that poleaxed Mn. Ron Thomas after
the Navy middle had thumped Hird for the first two minutes.
Thomas pitched forward and the referee didn't bother to
complete the count.

THE Edinburgh public have always reserved a lot of respect for Ken Buchanan, both
as a former world champion and as a person always willing to link his name with a
worthwhile cause.

WESTERN COUNTIES, unbeaten before the member of the Bristol Sporting Club for
the past two seasons, looked like losing their proud record when they trailed 3-0 in
their annual match with the Army

NOJIM MAIYEGUN, the Austrian-based Nigerian lightmiddleweight,
hopes to start 1974 with a revenge win
over ltalain Domenico Tiberia and then meet former
world champion Emilfe Griffith in Vienna.

Braintree Boxing Club staged its first home tournament for
more than fifteen years at the Institute Hall, where a large and
enthusiastic audience saw fourteen lively bouts.