Boxing News magazine Download PDF 30.3.1973

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BRITISH lightweight champion Ken Buchanan,
Edinburgh  made hard w o r k of outpointing
willing but limited Puerto Rican Hector Matta
 over 10 untidy rounds.
Buchanan was served with a writ on behalf of
manager Eddie Thomas before the fight. Thomas
is reported to be claiming entitlement to £4,500 from
Buchanan's purse for the 1971 return fight with Ismael
Laguna.

FORMER British lightweight champion Dave Crowley is flanked by actors Sean Connery (left) and Stanley
Baker at the testimonial show held for him by the Anglo-American Sporting Club, Hilton Hotel on Monday.
Crowley's eyesight is failing and he has had two heart attacks. Appeals have raised over £18,000 for him. A
great tribute to a great fighter.

I WAS interested to read Henry Cooper's comments on some of our lightweight
champions (Boxing Beat March 9). I have seen them all since 1944,
and I must say, that Frank Johnson was the best British boxer I ever saw
at any weight.

THE Muhammad Ali Show stops over in San Diego tomorrow (Saturday),
when the people's champion meets local product Ken Norton over 12 rounds.
It is being billed for Ali's North American Federation heavyweight title.

BRITISH featherweight champion Tommy Glencross has still to win a fight
since taking the title from Evan Arms trong last September. This time, Glasgow
southpaw Glencross was outsco red over eight rounds by Cardiff's Billy
Waith in their non-title contest at the Top Rank Suite.

BETHNAL GREEN welterweight John
H. Stracey after an eight months'
wait, is to have his revenge chance in
a £7,055 British title battle with Coventry
holder Bobby Arthur at the Royal
Albert Hall on Derby Eve, June 5.

IRELAND may tour America early next season. They
had hoped to go next month as replacements for the
Polish national side, but the Poles, w h o had hinted
they might withdraw from the trip, are now going

ITS ON! . . . Liverpool's pin-up fighter, John
Conteh, and former Olympic gold medal hero
Chris Finnegan clash for three titles at Wembley
Pool on May 22. The news was due to be announced
on BBC-TV's Sportsnight show within hours
of Boxing News going to press this week.