Boxing News magazine Download 30.5.1980.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  30.5.1980.pdf

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

Conteh gives it I one more try

NASH BACK WITH A HOME WIN

Sibson chance for a show-stopper

CHAMPIONS I'LL NEVER FORGET

BRITISH welterweight champion Colin Jones gets
his first fight at the Albert Hall when he takes on
American Richard House in a 10-rounder for
Mickey Duff and Mike Barrett on Tuesday.

FORMER British light-middleweight champion JIMMY
BATTEN continues his comeback with an eight-rounder
against Manchester's unbeaten WAYNE BARKER.

TONY SIBSON is meaningfully matched in his 10-
rounds main event with awkward, stiff-hitting Puerto
Rican Marciano Bernardi, and can learn from his Albert
Hall fight on Tuesday.

DURAN destroys arch lightweight rival Esteban
DeJesus in their third fight in Las Vegas. Eddie
correctly picked DeJesus to inflict the only
defeat of Duran's career in their first, non-title,
fight. He then picked DeJesus to beat Duran in
the second title, fight and was wrong. Never bet
against me again, Duran told him after. Eddie
hasn't.

BOXING'S strong comeback on the U.S. television networks
continues apace. Not since the 1950s has there been such a bill of
fare for fans, and the weekend of Saturday and Sunday, May 3-4,
saw saturation point reached with five live-TV fights on the various
afternoon sports shows

INTERNATIONAL featherweights Pete Hanlon and Ian
McLeod clash for t h e third time tonight (Friday) in the
only British Olympic t e am trial on t h e ABA junior finals
programme at London's Bloomsbury Centre Hotel,
writes BRIAN PIDGEN.
Their two previous meetings have ended in bitterly
disputed majority decisions to Hanlon and in many ways
it is a shame that the selectors have ordered a third
meeting which may end in a similarly controversial
scoring with t h e r ow rumbling on.

FORMER England international Terry Wenton
(Wavertree), has set what is almost certainly a British
amateur boxing record by appearing on the same bill as
his two sons.
Terry, now 37 and in the twilight of his career, has had his
sights set on this particular achievement for some time and
though there were several near misses when opponents failed to
materialise he finally made it on the Kirkby ABC show at
Kirkby Civic Suite.
And the Wentons did it in style  for all three won. Terry
outpointed Knowsley Vale bantam Les DArcy Nigel (11)
outscored Malcolm Jones (St Matthews) and Richard (12) beat
John Seery (Tower Hill), also on points. Terry can now hang up
his gloves happy in the knowledge that he should qualify for an
entry in the Guinness Book of Records.

THE Nottingham Association is going great guns, and
have organised themselves extremely well in a short
space of time. My old friend Vic Hardwicke, recordcompiler
extraordinaire, attended one of their recent
meetings, and met everal old friends, including Johnny
Bartles, Sid Hiom, Jimmy Thomson, Johnny Carrington
and Jimmy Gill.