Boxing News magazine Download 19.1.1993.pdf

Casual Barrett fails to hit his best form

 

Piper hammers Maldonado for one-sided points victory

 

It's a rough ride for tough Armour

 

Chavez leads the charge at Azteca

 

Gabe lacks power to topple Azumah

 

Faded Barkley is battered in nine

 

It's third time lucky for Jacobsen

 

FOLLOWING THE ABA CHAMPIONSHIP TRAIL

 

SHOWING no ill-effects from his 11th round stoppage
defeat by Nigel Benn for the WBC super-middleweight
title in December, Welshman Nicky Piper
picked up the vacant WBA Penta-Continental crown
with an embarrassingly one-sided 12-round points
win over Argentina's Miguel Maldonado at the Free
Trade Hall

 

TONY LOPEZ successfully defended his WBA
lightweight championship title with a 12 round
unanimous decision over Dlngaan Thobela of South
Africa.
In making his first defence of the title that he won
last October, Lopez was wise to do it in Sacramento.
That's the Sacramento of old, mind you, during the
days of the wild west when lawlessness prevailed.
Because what Lopez got away with in capturing the
decision was nothing short of highway robbery.

 

FORMER Midlands ABA heavyweight champion Paul
Oko crashed out of this season's title race when Willenhall's
Neil Simpson forced him to retire in the
third round at the Triumph club.
Oko, 1991 Midlands champ but missing last year,
was having his first contest for some time. Reports
of the quality of his fitness appear to have been
somewhat exaggerated.