Boxing News magazine Download 30.3.1979.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download 30.3.1979.pdf

Boxing News Magazine 1979  Memorabilia
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Boxing Results 1979

Mullings nails Joey in four

LAWSON KEEPS CROWN

Gloucester could see some great battles

Derrick moves in with pros

EARNIE SHAVERS, the man the
Americans call Mister Devastation,
wrecks the world heavyweight title
hopes of the perennial challenger
Ken Norton in Las Vegas.
Norton is on his knees and falling
(right) as Shavers powers in. It was a
knock-down that left Norton groping
glassy-eyed for the ropes (below) and
beaten in one round.
On the same bill, Larry Holmes kept
his W B C title with a seventh round win
over Octavio Ocasio.

THE unexpected death of Herr Hans Hoffman, top man
on the Amateur International Boxing Association, who
was to have officiated at the examination of referees and
judges to AIBA standard, brought an SOS call to ABA
secretary Bill Cox last week end

IT was difficult to pick out the best
contest on the Hayes show arranged by
competition secretary Dick Gunn at the
Centre Hotel, but the bout that stole the
show was the battle between the promoting
club's Wayne Welter and St
Aidans' Vic Abrahart. Wayne won but
each round was bitterly contested.

DAVY LARMOUR meets Leicester's
Larry Richards in the eight-rounds
main event on promoter Gerry Hassett's
Ulster Hall show in Belfast on Thursday.

LONDON'S welterweight
war, declared with the
semi-finals draw at Seymour
Hall between a talentpacked
quartet, was concluded
at the Royal Albert
Hall with the youngest
contender, 18-year-old
LLOYD HONEYGHAN
(Fisher), emerging victorious
over Tottenham's
reigning champion
LLOYD MORGAN.