Boxing News magazine Download PDF 18.2.1972

Boxing News 1972 Memorabilia

FLOYD PATTERSON'S future seems as cloudy as
ever despite a fairly impressive win over Oscar
Bonavena that seemed to put him in position for
a title fight with heavyweight champion Joe
Frazier.

GOODNIGHT, ALL! Larry Sykes sits it out, dazed and dejected, as referee Bob Galloway counts him out in first
round. Cool Conteh, hands on hips, has the look of a detached observer. It was just another evening s work
for Conteh, who has now won seven straight . . . six inside the distance.

WESTON plumber Paul Vowles, an ABA
feather semi-finalist last season, produced
a big upset in the Western Counties v
North West London match at the Bristol
Sporting Club.

DAVE NEEDHAM, unbeaten
Nottingham bantam, has a
return with Billy Hardacre,
Liverpool's Central Area
featherweight champ, in the
chief eight-rounder at York
Hall, Bethnal Green on
Tuesday.

LES PEARSON, Central Area welter champ, replaces
flu-hit Bobby Arthur against American Ecidie Parks in
the chief eight-rounder at the World Sporting Club
on Monday.

COLLYHURST welter Kenny Webber
raced to the East Lanes and Cheshire divisional
title by pounding Bamber Bridge
youngster Simon Duckworth to defeat in
85 seconds of the second round at Maine
Road, Manchester.

GARY DAVIDSON, classy international
bantam, easily outpointed Combined Services
champion Billy Moyse (RAF) on the
combined Fitzroy Lodge-Lynn show at
Manor Place Baths.

LES PEARSON, Central Area welter champ, replaces
flu-hit Bobby Arthur against American Ecidie Parks in
the chief eight-rounder at the World Sporting Club
on Monday