Boxing News magazine Download 7.11.1980.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download 7.11.1980.pdf

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

Jim escapes cuts trouble to win in a bloodbath

brave O'Grady who was  so close to victory

Graham looks the business

SANIGAR SKATES IT

The other comes into Spinks his own

Courtney comes in from the cold

MIGUEL CASTELLINI must have really enjoyed his knockout win over Eddie
Gazo in Buenos Aires. Miguel lost his WBA light-middleweight title to Gazo on
points in Nicaragua in March 1977, and performed so badly that he was in disgrace
for quite a while.
Since that defeat, the 33-year-old from Santa Rosa has lost only twice to Ayub Kalule
and the late Alfredo Cabral, in 16 fights and is back in favour. Gazo had
warmed up for the return £ tatch by stopping Edgar Bravo in one round in
Managua.

IT WAS a real pleasure to attend the ABA Centenary and be a part of the celebrations
marking the birth of boxing. I felt genuinely honoured, and also quite young by comparison.
The Centenary brochure was a beautiful souvenir, and the George Wimpey Multi-Nations a
well-organised, great tourney of pretty high standards, which featured a whole spate of
sizzling bouts.
In fact, I tried to ask old friends living in London how come that the ABA, which
organises a multi-nations only every 100 years, could get the pairing so right, when in
Hungary we have four — two senior and two junior - multi-nationals each year, and
our organisers still often make a botch of it. I am still waiting for an answer, but I am sure it
was not by accident.
English amateur boxing is riding a wave now. I noted already in Moscow at the Games
that the British squad was very strong — in fact, probably the strongest Olympic squad from
Britain since the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Some of the Moscow faces were missing here,
but the substitutes appeared
equally accomplished.