Boxing News magazine Download 11.7.1980.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download 11.7.1980.pdf

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

FIT-AGAIN HOPE HAS A POINT TO PROVE

Tough Mexican will test Colin Jones all the way

DeJesus stunned by Mamby

TURPIN...DOWNES...OR MINTER?

CHAMPIONS I'LL NEVER FORGET BY GILBERT ODD

LEN'S 462 FIGHTS WERE A RECORD

Bold Barry bids to end Ireland's Olympic jinx

Willis,Gilbody,Wilshire,are bestbets

MAURICE HOPE can expect a fierce argument
from ex-champion Rocky Mattioli
when he makes his second defence of the title
he took from the Italo-Australian at Wembley
Conference Centre on Saturday.
The weekend date is because American TV
have bought the fight to be screened, because
of the time zone difference, live on Saturday
afternoon — as was the Alan Minter v Vito
Antuofermo fight a fortnight previously.
Remarks that Hope only won the title
because Mattioli broke his right arm in the
first round have rankled with the East Enddomiciled,
Antiguan-born southpaw. This is a
golden opportunity for him to prove his
detractors wrong.

BRITISH welterweight champion COLIN JONES,
fresh from a one-round win over Richard House in his
last London appearance, is more sternly tested with a
10 rounder at Wembley Conference Centre against
Mexican MAURICIO ALDANA.
Aldana's a typical tough Mexican, brought up in a
hard fight school. He claims he's had only three
amateur fights and is one of a family of seven. He
wanted to fight for money, not trophies.
Though born in Mexico, he's done his fighting
mostly in California. The names on his record aren't
big ones. At the end of a busy 13 fight 1979, he met
Randy Shields and lost a highly disputed 10-rounder
on points in Los Angeles.

BOXING for the first time as a pro in his native North-
East Hartlepool's PAUL KEERS chalked up a fine
victory over CHARLIE PARVIN on John Spenseley's
final show of the season at Marton Country Club.
Keers was well on top when the 29-year-old Glasgow
veteran retired at the end of round five, claiming an
injury to the right fe^nd. Yet for the first two rounds it
looked as if Keers had bitten off more than he could
chew