Boxing News magazine Download 4.5.1979in.pdf

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Boxing News Magazine 1979  Memorabilia
Boxing News Magazine 1979  History
Boxing Results 1979

ABA FINALS: HOW THEY LINE UP

Minter marches on

McLeon bursts the Awome bubble

Burrows just pips game Robinson

Clever Carlton holds off Ken

Why only two cockneys at Wembley?

THE apprenticeship is over for new European flyweight
champion Charlie Magri, whose confidently-executed
12-rounds points win over defending champ Franco
Udella of Italy puts him firmly into world class.
Magri won by a distance — a six-rounds margin on my
card  but had to settle for a split decision after Swiss
judge Franz Marti scored it 117-116 to Udella.

MANCHESTER heavyweight Danny
Miller, conceding almost two stone,
clearly outpointed Reading's Isaac
Hussein at the 20th Century Sporting
Club, Southend.

THERE were surprises for South American
champions Juan Domingo Malvarez
and Ruben Pardo. Featherweight
Malvarez was held to a draw by Roberto
Haidar, and Pardo finished up the same
way against Alberto Almiron in a middleweight
scrap. Both bouts were non-title
affairs, and Pardo was particularly surprised
since Almiron had won only one of
his last 34 bouts.

FORMER FIGHTERS from America will
be supporting the memorial to the late
Freddie Mills, and the fund for this purpose
is now open. One remark was "A
wonderful tribute to a great guy," and
that is exactly how Freddie's many fans
will see it.

IT WILL be a lively night at the Empire
Rooms, Tottenham Court Road on Tuesday,
when a team of London boys takes
on a squad of toughies from New York on
a dinner tournament, for the Duke of
Edinburgh's Trophy.

THE scene is Philadelphia in the
summer of 1970. For three years,
Muhammad Ali has been stripped
of his world champion boxing title
because of his refusal to enter the
Armed Forces.

THEY never came any tougher or braver t h a n Carmen Basilio, who won the
world welter and middleweight titles in the fifties. His two fantastic battles with
Sugar Ray Robinson are only part of the story  in all, Carmen met eight world
champions, beating five of them, and his name surely belongs on anybody's list of
the all-time great champions.