Boxing News magazine Download 9.9.1979.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  9.9.1979.pdf

Boxing News Magazine 1979  Memorabilia
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Boxing Results 1979

It's classy Watt

BRITISH TITLE NIGHT AT THE ALBERT HALL

Cowdell gets his revenge

KOOPMAN HANGS ON TO TITLE

Simmonds comeback

REPTON WILL BRING HOME THE BACON

IT all proved very easy for Glasgow's Jim Watt
as he hammered totally o u t c l a s s e d Texan
Roberto Vasquez to ninth round defeat in the
first defence of his WBC lightweight title atKelvin Hall.
Vasquez, a boyish looking 21-year-old, came
with a puncher's reputation but simply lacked
the technical ability to ruffle t h e superbly skilled
Scott.

THE vintage skills of Iver middleweight Kevin Finnegan
proved too much for big hitting Tony Sibson in their epic
British title fight at the Albert Hall.
Referee Harry Gibbs gave the contest  and the title
to the veteran challenger by a orie round margin after
15 gruelling rounds which saw fortunes sway constantly.

BRITISH featherweight title challenger Pat Cowdell made no mistake second
time around as he picked the quality punches to take the crown from
southpaw champion Dave Needham in an excellent fight at the Albert Hall.

A STAGGERING decision by referee Jim Pridding gave
Karl Canwell a close and, in my opinion, wholly undeserved
points victory over Carlton Benoit at the newlynamed
European Sporting Club.

GARY Davidson collected 23 stitches in his face the last time he went to work at the
Wemblev Conference Centre five months ago.
He was back there working last week (Oct 23) to discover that the fight game is
less painful on the safe side of the ropes.
His heavyweight hope, ABA champion Andy Palmer, got tagged by a right hand
that wrecked his pro debut  and Davidson's debut as a manager.
Five months before, Davidson had stepped in tears from the same ring. He had
picked up a clear points verdict over Welshman Pip Coleman  plus enough cuts
and boos to last him a lifetime. That too was the last bout of a long night's boxing.

FLASHBACK. While Repton seniors are boxing in Denmark, twenty of
their juniors were battling for titles in the London Fed preliminaries,
semi-finals of which take place at Downside Settlement, Druid Street,
Bermondsey, tonight. Our picture shows Repton's Eddie Wright (right)
winning the Class C 11-11 final in 1951. Eddie, of course, became a good
class professional.

GEORGE CHAPLIN may have finally put paid
to DUANE BOBICK's career by stopping him
in seven rounds in Atlantic City. Chaplin, a
former amateur international, has now lost only
one of his 15 fights and looks a good prospect.

HEAVYWEIGHT Larry Holmes has a visit from
his fiancee, Diane Robinson, in Philadelphia's
Temple University Hospital. The WBC heavyweight
champ had a successful operation this
week to remove a polyp from his vocal chords,
and plans to resume training on Monday for his
defence against Earnie Shavers, 

HARRY REEVE, always billed as from Plaistow although born in the London East
End district of St. Georges, was not one of the greatest of British champions, yet
he found fame by being the only man in the world to have his right leg featured
photographically on the front page of Boxing. But of this unparallelled incident in
tistic history more anon.
He once told me he had started pro boxing in 1910, but the first paid contest I
can trace of his took place on January 24, 1911, when he was 17 days past his 18th
birthday. The eldest of a large family he was probably hard at work the day after
he left school, but no doubt there was plenty of opportunity to pick up the
rudiments of fisticuffs in the down-to-earth locality in which he had been reared.