Boxing News magazine Download 12.1.1979.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  12.1.1979.pdf

Boxing News Magazine 1979  Memorabilia
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Boxing Results 1979

South African teenager Abbott looks dangerous

SO TOUGH POR CARLOS

BENITEZ CAN WIN TITLE THRILLER

McKenzie wins in Rotterdam

Jacobs earns his biggest senior win

CARLOS PALOMINO appears to have the odds against him in his eighth
defence of the World Boxing Council welterweight title when he meets Puerto
Rico's flashy and gifted WILFREDO BENITEZ in San Juan on Sunday.

SCOTLAND'S boxers face a monumental task at Cambuslang's County Inn
next Wednesday evening (January 17) when they face an England side which
looks on paper several leagues above them.

THE appearance of a one-man squad signalled Denmark's
token participation in the second World Amateur
Championships in Belgrade, and light-middle Ole
Svendsen had a solitary bout; he fell early victim on
points to West Germany's Intlekofer, the Halle
Europeans runners-up, who was himself to be stopped
on injury against Poland's Rybicki in the quarter-finals
at Belgrade.

ABINGDON welterweight PETER NEAL powered himself
back in British title contention with an epic Southern Area
championship defence against Luton's HENRY RHINEY.

WOLVERHAMPTON'S Bingo Crooks scored his first win in Scotland when he
forced Willie Booth to retire suddenly at the end of the sixth of a scheduled ten
threes main event at Glasgow's Plaza Ballroom.
Scottish lightweight champion Booth suddenly grimaced in pain in his
corner and motioned towards his side. The cornermen immediately called
over referee Len Mullen and indicated his retirement.

IT was all hopelessly one-sided as Commonwealth and
African light-heavyweight champion Lottie Mwale
smashed outweighed and outgunned substitute Carlos
Marks to second round defeat in the scheduled 10 rounds
chief support,

IT'S been seven years since 300-pound Buster Mathis, the Good Guy Blimp, floated
over the world of boxing and floated back into his hangar in Grand Rapids.
He came from nowhere in 1964 to beat Joe Frazier and make the Olmpic team, but
broke a wrist and saw Smokin' Joe take his place and win in Tokyo. He drifted back to
nowhere after Frazier, Muhammad Ali, Jerry Quarry and Ron Lyle inflicted the only
defeats on a 30-4 record.