Boxing News magazine Download PDF 11.8.1972

Boxing News1972 Memorabilia

IT IS surprising to me that modern-era fighters receive so little credit when
all-time rankings are compiled. There are good fighters of recent vintage
who, for my money, could have put the alleged old masters in their places.

" I HAVE the strongest middleweight in the world," says American trainer
Al Silvani confidently after watching a sparring session for Tom Bogs, who
makes his world middleweight challenge against Carlos Monzon, of Argentina,
in the 50,000 capacity soccer stadium " Idraetsparken " in Copenhagen
on August 19

ESTEBAN DeJESUS, Puerto Rican lightweight champion and Boxing News
world No 10, racked up his 28th win against one defeat by soundly outpointing
Chuck "Schoolboy" Wilburn of Cleveland over 10 rounds before
3,582 fans at Madison Square Garden.

EDDIE MACHEN, former brilliant heavyweight
contender, died on Tuesday. Police found his battered,
pyjama-clad body in the parking lot of his
apartment house in San Francisco. Machen was
40 years old.

CASABLANCA greeted Muhammad Ali with the
type of reception that is reserved for visiting
heads of state. A 100-car cavalcade escorted the
visitors from airport to hotel. I t was a gala day.

BILLY TAYLOR waved goodbye to his Olympic
hopes when the selectors decided that Vernon
Sollas was the ideal choice for a medal in Munich.
On Thursday the Repton featherweight will wave
goodbye to most of his family — for the dream
trip he thought he'd missed.

BY the time it came to the 1961 ABA finals Peter
Bennyworth must have been wondering if he was
going to join the long list Of boxers who time and
time again got so near to winning one of the
coveted titles, but never quite made it.

JOHN CONTEH, now being hailed as a potentially more dangerous fighter
than Danny McAlinden or Joe Bugner, may fight former WBA heavyweight
champion Jimmy Ellis at Wembley on September 26,

IF Danny McAlinden takes a fight in Dublin it may not be until December.
Nor is it likely that American A1 Blue Lewis of Detroit, Muhammad Ali's
latest victim, will be his opposition.