Boxing News magazine Download 12.9.1980.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download 12.9.1980.pdf

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

BRAVE BESTER PUSHES KALUE

Galindez brings the curtain down on a colourful career

Graham's record intact

HARRINGAY ARENA...THE GOLDEN YEARS

KAYLOR FOR LAWLESS

Bassey looks good

BRITISH light-middleweight champion Pat Thomas will be banking on slick skills to see him through against the snarling, blood-and-thunder aggression of fearsome Fens body puncher Steve Hopkin at Wembley Conference Centre on Tuesday.For the 30-year-old champion, born in St. Kitts but a long-time Cardiff resident, it’s a chance to prove his worth as title-holder. He took the title from Jimmy Batten on an injury stoppage, although he was ahead anyway before the ninth round ending.

MIKE WEAVER, scheduled to defend his WBA heavyweight title against Gerrie Coetzee in October, would like to see his boyhood idol Muhammad All defeat Larry Holmes to win the crown for an unprecedented
fourth time for sentimental reasons.“Sure, anything can happen in a fight but I doubt if Ali can do it under the circumstances. He may last the distance and give a fair account of himself, but that’s about all.

THE retirement at the age of 31 of Victor Galindez sees another colourful fighter of the 1970s depart the scene. It was felt he still had a few lively fights left in him but he had an eye operation earlier this year and his doctor feels that Galindez would be putting his sight in danger were he to fight on.

WEST HAM’S ABA middleweight champion Mark Kaylor has turned professional with East London manager Terry Lawless. The 19-year-old Smithfield meat porter came within a whisker of an Olympic medal in July when he looked unlucky dropping a 3-2 majority against Rumanian Valentin Silaghi.He had outpointed Brazilian Carlos Fonesca to reach the Moscow
quarter-finals. Stylish Kaylor reached the 1979 English ABA semi-finals as a light-middleweight after winning an NABC Class C title.