Boxing News magazine Download 5.3.1993.pdf

Herbie the hype is a world qwqy from Bowe

 

What a belter! Murphy regains title in a war

 

Ashton retires after seven round defeat

 

Regan tries for third time lucky

 

Williams battles back to earn a draw

 

Whitaker can spoil Buddy's big night

 

ON THE ABA CHAMPIONSHIP TRAIL

 

HE IS crude, ungainly and lacks technique...but there is an
elemental force about British middleweight champion Frank
Grant which will swamp better equipped men than Alfreton's
John Ashton, whose challenge for Grant's title ended after seven
rounds at St. George's Hall.

 

LEICESTER'S Chris Pyatt convincingly
put paid to the seemingly audacious
attempt by Colin Manners to
take a short cut up the British middleweight
rankings, when they met
in the main event on this Matchroom
promotion at the Dome Leisure Park.

 

SLICK southpaw Pernell Whitaker steps up to welterweight
in search of a third "world" title when he
challenges New York's Buddy McGirt for the WBC
crown at Madison Square Garden in the Big Apple
tomorrow (March 6).
The winner, one would assume, would be a natural
match for WBC light-welterweight champion
Julio Cesar Chavez, who looked so sensational in
hammering Greg Haugen in Mexico last month.

 

THERE were mixed fortunes foi liattersea's two
defending divisional champions it .mother very
depleted South West Dlvs itthe I own Hall.
In the upset of the evening, middleweight champ
'Dynamite' Dave Cranston was demolished in the
first round by a beautifully exe< Uted right hook from
relatively inexperh in ed C o u r t n e y Campbell of
Earlsfield.