Boxing News magazine Download 1.8.1980.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  1.8.1980.pdf

Boxing News Magazine 1980  Memorabilia
Boxing News Magazine 1980  History
Boxing Results 1980

The amateur jabber who developed a chilling punch

BRITISH FIGHTERS MAKE THEIR MARK IN GREAT FASHION

GOLDEN OLDIES WERE BOXERS, NOT BOMBERS

CHAMPIONS I'LL NEVER FORGET: BY GILBERT ODD

THE dust has settled on the Brawl in Montreal and >gk
tomorrow (Saturday, Aug. 2) comes the second of this 
year's great welterweight confrontations: Pipino Cuevas f
of Mexico defending his World Boxing Association title I
against unbeaten home favourite Thomas Hearns at the JWH
beautiful new Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.

THOMAS HEARNS was a tall, skinny black kid at 14 and ,
 when he walked into the gym of the Kronk Recreation
 Centre in the Detroit ghetto he looked a more likely
 prospect for the basketball team than the boxing squad
 He wasn't much," remembers Emanuel Steward, a
 former Golden Gloves champ who had coached the
 Kronk team since 1969, "in fact, he was one of our worst
 fighters.

THERE were several Johnny Browns around in the 1920's, but in
Scotland they only had time for the one that came from Hamilton in
Lanarkshire, whose real name was John Fleming.
Just why he changed this to Johnny Brown he never divulged, but
doubtless it was because he did not want his family to know that he
had thrown in his lot with the low down pugs. It is worth noting,
however, that he did not box professionally before his fellowcountrymen
until his ninth paid fight.

FOR 30 years I lived just a five-minute bus ride
from Harringay Arena, which closed its doors to
boxing on October 28, 1958. I eventually moved
houses, but still have to pass the site (now a
warehouse, I believe) twice a day on my way to
and from the office.
So it is difficult not to keep recalling the many
great fights and fighters at Harringay over the
years. Their names are household words, Len
Harvey, Tommy Farr, Jock McAvoy, Eric Boon,
Arthur Danahar, Ernie Roderick, plus world
champions from America like Henry Armstrong,
Gus Lesnevich and Max Baer, being just a crosssection.

BRITISH welterweight champion COLIN JONES
and his challenger PETER NEAL will be warming
up to music when Colin defends at the National
Eisteddfodd Pavilion, Gowerton, on August 12.