Boxing News magazine Download 19.1.1979.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  19.1.1979.pdf

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

BUNNY IS STILL A DANGER MAN

Palomino salutes Benitez

The fall, rise, and fall of Jack Bodell

Leonard wins his first pro title

Singleton verdict uproar

H E N R Y R H I N E Y makes history at the Royal
Albert Hall on Tuesday when he becomes the
first European champion to defend his title in
Britain over the new EBU limit of 12 rounds.
But Rhiney, who meets Dave Boy Green,
could also make a second piece of history  by
becoming the shortest reigning European welterweight
title holder of all time. Big fight
preview  Pages 8-9.

MIAMI BEACH — January 13: South African heavyweight
KALLIE KNOETZE did the expected when he
disposed of outweighed and outgunned victim BILL
SHARKEY of New York in the fourth of a one-sided
fight.

PETER BENNETT, Northern Counties
champion from Sheffield, finally
came good at the Anglo American
Sporting Club, with a brilliant victory
in the National Association of
Boys Clubs Class B finals at the Hotel
Piccadilly.

IT may be early days to stick my neck out and make
predictions for the 1979 Welsh Schoolboy Championships
but after an exhilarating afternoon and evening in
the tiny Taff's Well Community Centre, where the
Southern Division staged their preliminary rounds, I
was highly impressed with the performances of four
boxers.