Boxing News magazine Download 7.12.1979.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  7.12.1979.pdf

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

FERRIS POPS UP TO WIN

Bomber's £5,000 challenge

WHITE DETHRONES SLOW FENTON

JUST three weeks after losing his British title and Tony
Sibson, the Leicester middleweight, is back on top of the
world. Sibson (11-13) showed no ill effects from his
recent championship loss to Kevin Finnegan, by coming
back to demolish American import Robert Powell (11-
10) from Houston, Texas, in just two minutes 54 seconds
in the top liner at Liverpool Stadium.

SUGAR RAY LEONARD stopped
Wilfred Benitez in somewhat
controversial circumstances with
six seconds remaining in the 15th
and final round to wrest the WBC
welterweight title from the Puerto
Rican before a packed house of
5,600 at the Caesars Palace Sports
Pavilion and a US-TV audience of
millions.

FORMER WBC light-heavyweight champion Marvin Johnson captured
the WBA version of the title by hammering Victor Galindez into defeat
after 20 seconds of the eleventh round before a crowd of about 10,000 atthe Superdome.
Johnson, from Indianapolis, drove a tremendous left hand from his
southpaw stance to send Galindez crashing to the canvas, his legs in the air.
Referee Jesus Celis of Venezuala started to count but Gaiindez' seconds
jumped onto the ring apron as a towel came into the ring, whereupon the
referee stopped the fight.

SOUTHERN Area welterweight champion
PETER NEAL should not be extended when he
takes on DJIBRIL BATHILY from the French
Cameroons at the Top Rank Suite, Reading, on Monday.
Bathily, a substitute for Frenchman Claude
Lancastre, has a record of 10 wins in a 14 fight
career. Last year he was stopped in three
rounds by Roland Zenon.

CAMBERWELL heavyweight DENTON RUDDOCK looks to
put himself'back in British title contention when he challenges
Brighton's TOMMY KIELY for the Southern Area title
at Wimbledon Town Hall on Wednesday.
But the champion looks a firm favourite to retain his crown
and boost his claims for a clash with John L. Gardner.
Kiely, trained by Doug Bidwell, has recently undergone a
change of style. He has sacrificed his somewhat ungainly
southpaw stance for a more positive, orthodox approach and,
according to Bidwell, the change is paying dividends.