Boxing News magazine Download 9.4.1982.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  9.4.1982.pdf

Boxing News Magazine 1982  Memorabilia
Boxing News Magazine 1982 History
Boxing Results 1982

31 bouts in a year and no defeats Alex Lafferty

Hagler - Hearns set for battle in Canada

Coetzee pounds the man of iron

Driscoll outsmarts Reid

PROMOTER-manger Frank Warrens £10,000 challenge to
Charlie Magri on behalf of his flyweight star Keith WaUace
suddenly looks like a realistic business proposition in the
light of Wallace's stunning third-round dismissal of the
previously unbeaten Irishman, Jimmy Carson, at the
Bloomsbury Centre Hotel, writes HARRY MULLAN.

AS HE approached school-leaving age, Maurice Hope saw two possible
alternatives for the rest of his wife: "To buckle under, or be determined
and ambitious." In the event, he settled for the latter and opted for a
career as a boxer.
At the age of 27, he was the light-middleweight champion of the
world.
Hope was born in Antigua, but he moved to London with his parents
in 1961 when aged nine. At 11, he took up boxing and became the
fourth black member of the Repton Boys' Club in the East End district
of Bethnal Green.

DERBYSHIRE ABA beat their Staffordshire
counterparts 8-5 in an inter-county representative
match in aid of the Police Dependants'
Trust at Derbyshire Constabulary HQ, Ripley
on March 15.
The tournament, which drew a capacity
crowd, included among the guests, former
British heavyweight champion Jack Bodell
and Larry Gains, president of the London
Ex-Boxers' Association, who
held the Empire heavyweight
crown.

GERRY COONEY said at a press conference in New York on March 23 that he
feels good and is eager to meet LARRY HOLMES in their postponed fight for
the WBC heavyweight title.
The fight, originally scheduled for March 15, was put forward to June 11 when Cooney
injured his left shoulder.