Boxing Newsmagazine Download PDF 4.8.1972

Boxing News1972 Memorabilia

DENNY MOYER lashes crouching Carlos Salinas with a left to the head during their 12-round clash for the
North American middleweight title at San Francisco on July 26. Defending champion Moyer, of Portland,
Oregon, scored a unanimous points victory — his second win over Argentine-born, Californian-based Salinas.

PANAMA'S Enrique Pinder waged a smart tactical
battle to outpoint Mexican Rafael Herrera
over 15 rounds and become his country's third
reigning world champion.

JAKE LaMOTTA, the old Bronx Bull, hit his peak
in the 1940s but figured in two of the greatest
middleweight bouts of the 1950s, which is why I
include him in this series.

FORMER world bantamweight champion Ruben Olivares, requested a third postponing of
his entry into the featherweight poundage. Originally scheduled for July 22, at Monterrey,
then to July 29, Olivares pleaded that a cold had kept him from peak fitness and that August
12 would suit his purpose.

MAURICE O'SULLIVAN'S selection for the Olympic
Games completed an outstanding double for
the thriving Roath Youth ABC in Cardiff — he
becomes the second flyweight from the club to
compete in an Olympiad.

ALAN EDWARDS had a love for amateur boxing that was, and still is, souldeep.
In his five years at the top of the tree, during which time he collected
two ABA light-middleweight titles, represented England a dozen times and
fought in the 1967 European championships in Rome Alan gave far more to
the sport than he took from it.

TWO ANGRY fight managers will make the strongest of
protests if p.ans go through for Scotland's John Kellie
and Australian bantamweight champion Paul Ferreri to
fight for the vacant Commonwealth title in Svdnev on
September 19.