Boxing News magazine Download 17.9.1982.pdf

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

Wilshire looks impressive

Smart wins Welsh derby

Anderson lines up title chance

Games squad on stage

EUROPEAN middleweight champion Tony Sibson
was slow handclapped by a bored and dissatisfied
crowd on the way to forcing cagey survivor Antonio
Garrido to retire at the end of the eighth of their
scheduled 10-rounder,

ONE of the most improved
fighters in the country is unbeaten
light-middleweight Nick
Wilshire, who halted Horace
McKenzie after two mins 30 sees
of the fifth of their scheduled
eight-rounder

BRIAN ANDERSON, Sheffield,
took another step nearer the British
light-middleweight championship
held by his stable-mate Herol Graham
when he decisively outpointed
Cardiff's Darwin Brewster in an
official eliminator over 10 rounds at
the Top Rank Suite.

AMERICAN promoter Don King is like no other boxing promoter in the
history of the sport. We have nothing even remotely resembling him on this
side of the Atlantic.
He makes a list that includes Tex Rickard, Jack Solomons, Harry Levene,
Mickey Duff, Mike Barrett, Sam Burns and Jarvis Astaire read like the call
sheet for a meeting of an inner sanctum of conservative church leaders.
He is an enormous black man from Cleveland, Ohio, but to leave it there
would be tantamount to saying that a Stradivarius is a stringed instrument.
"The most powerful promoter in sports, and one of the most successful
businessmen in America" was how Time magazine described him.

THE former WBC flyweight champion Chanhee Park made
a successful — if unspectacular — return to action with a
points win over Katsuyuki Ohashi in Seoul. The 25-yearold
university graduate had retired after failing to win back
the WBC tide from Shoji Oguma in February 1981.
Another former WBC champion Sanghyon Kim was also
in a winning mood as he knocked Flash Romeo out cold
with a left to the head. The 27-year-old southpaw lost his
light-welterweight title to Saoul Mamby in February 1980,
and is now hoping to land a shot at the new champion -
Leroy Haley - in October.

HAVING watched many of the great world champions in action like Joe
Louis, Henry Armstrong, Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Marciano, Muhammad
Ali, Tony Zale, Marcel Cerdan and Willie Pep to name a few, it is a
mammoth task to pick out the best-ever fight.
Yet in not choosing a battle including these great champions, I can say I
have never seen a greater fight than the confrontation between two British
kids, Eric Boon, defending the lightweight title at 19 against Arthur Danahar,
the former ABA champion, who was but one year older.
The 12,000 Harringay crowd were themselves close to exhaustion from
the tension, excitement and sheer guts as the fight remained uncertain until
Boon's victory in the 14th round.