Boxing News magazine Download 11.6.1982.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  11.6.1982.pdf

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HE'S THE LAST i WHITE HOPE!

CHAMPIONS I'LL NEVER FORGET LLEW EDWARDS

Waith wins Welsh title

ABA champion turns his back on Brisbane to join the paid ranks

APART from the newspaper reporting of his 96 contests, I cannot think
of any other British champion who was given less publicity than Llew
Edwards, who, came f r om Perth in the Rhondda Valley of South Wales.
Authors of stories about famous Welsh boxers seem to have made a
habit of leaving his name out of their writings. It may be because he was a
modest lad, quiet and unassuming in his early days, or for the fact that
after winning the British featherweight title at the age of 21, he took off
for Australia and stayed there for good.
Whatever the reason, he was such a good boxer and achieved sufficient
fame not be to be neglected in this way, that I feel impelled to put the
matter right and bring to light his impressive fistic career that covered
nine years, during which time there was a glut of fine boxers and you had
to be good if you were going to get anywhere in the Fight Game in those
day.

KEITH WALLACE continued his march towards
the British and European flyweight titles with an
adequate win over Dutch bantamweight champion
Ray Somer in the second of the scheduled eight round
main event of Frank Warren's first-rate show at the
Bloomsbury Centre.

PECKHAM'S Winston Spencer was a little too big and
punched too hard for Brighton tryer Peter Eubanks, and
duly took the verdict after a fairly lively eight rounder at
theAASC.

SHEFFIELD welterweight Glen Crump came in as a last
minute substitute for injured stablemate Peter Bennett, and
ended the unbeaten run of Manchester's Paul Costigan in
spectacular fashion in the main event of the annual Jewish
Blind society charity show at the Free Trade Hall

WITH the Commonwealth Games selection row still rumbling,
light-welterweight Tony Adams dropped a further
bombshell last week by withdrawing from the England
team.
Kayo king Adams, the big-hitting southpaw sensation of
this year's ABA championships, announced his intention to
turn professional saying he no longer had incentive as an
amateur.
Adams, 19, who halted five of his seven ABA title opponents
in the first round - including George Gilbody - was
generally considered to be our best bet for a gold medal in
Brisbane.