Boxing News magazine Download 13.8.1982.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  13.8.1982.pdf

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

No problems for Andries

It's a dream come true for Mancini

AT LEAST GIVE LAING A CHANCE AGAINST DURAN

Sad blow for Horgan brothers

ONE of the decade's most outstanding champions reached the end of the road at Philadelphia
as Matthew Saad Muhammad (right) found that he just didn't have enough left to stay with the
WBC light-heavyweight champion Dwight Braxton. Saad's brave challenge ended in the sixth.
Full reports on page 15.

TO ABSOLUTELY nobody's surprise, manager Mickey Duff was quick to react to my query about the suitability of his welter- weight, Kirkland Laing, as a comeback opponent for former double world champ Roberto Duran. "Duran's an old man", Duff says. "Of course he's only 30, but in boxing you have to look at the sort of career he's had, the number of fights he's had, the sort of shape he keeps himself in . . . those considerations tell you what his boxing age is, and in boxing terms Duran's an old man. "He went the distance with Wilfred Benitez, but he was well beaten, whatever the official scores

ERROL CHRISTIE, Black Pearl, England's answer to Ray Leonard, call him whatever but he's certainly original. "For a fellah who has won everything he does everything wrong in the ring and gets away with it," says Bert McCarthy, pros- pective manager of the Coventry amateur whose ten title wins made the Guinness Book of Records.
There was speculation that jobless Christie would make amends for failing at the scales for this season's ABA cham- pionships (he won last year) by competing as a middleweight in the European Under-19 event in Germany next month.

in the new Madison Square Garden, and the best since the one in which Willie Pep regained his tide from Sandy Saddler in the old Garden, Salvador Sanchez retained his World Boxing Council crown by scoring a stoppage over Azumah Nelson at 1:49 of the 15th round.

CONSOLATION PRIZE. Our picture shows Herman Henry of
St Pancras, left, outpointing Kirkby's tough Dave Kenny in
ABA featherweight final. This should have earned Herman a
place in England's Commonwealth Games team in Brisbane
in September. But he was inexplicably overlooked. Now
there's a chance he may represent Jamaica.