Boxing News magazine Download 22.1.1982.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download  22.1.1982.pdf

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

Hope and Boza lead European title charge

Mancini's back with a bang

Witherspoon too rough' for Cooney

Navarette climb  back to win war

LIGHTWEIGHTS Ricky Beaumont and George
Feeney clash in a rematch of punchers when they
meet in their 12-rounds final eliminator for Ray
Cattouse's British title at the National Sporting
Club on Monday.

IT HAS been a year of mixed fortunes for Midlands boxing.
Of the four possible title challengers from the area I picked
this time last year, two won titles, though one lost his in a
first defence, another won a final eliminator but has been
waiting 10 months for a title shot and the other has been
sidelined but makes his title challenge next month.
Nottingham-born Herol Graham fulfilled the promise he
made in his amateur and early pro career when he won the
British light-middleweight title from Pat Thomas and improved
on this by taking the Commonwealth title later in the
year.

IT'S been nearly 24 years since Carmen Basilio and
Sugar Ray Robinson had their two wars for the world
middleweight title, but still Basilio seems unable to
think kindly of Ray.
Basilio contends that Robinson refused to give him
a rubber match, thereby depriving them both of a
huge purse.
Interviewed

BARRY McGUIGAN has been a name to conjure with since 1978 when,
at 17, he won the Commonwealth Games bantamweight gold medal in
Edmonton.
Three years on, after a brilliant amateur career, including a bronze
medal at the 1980 European junior championships in Italy, McGuigan is
the hottest professional prospect in the game.
McGuigan — real name Finbar - burst on to the scene in his first
senior amateur season, when he won the Irish bantam title and then
defied a hand injury to grab a Commonwealth gold.

CAMBORNE-REDRUTH ABC, who reckon
they are the biggest club in Cornwall, with over
40 lads in training, are anxious for home and
away matches, but there are not many clubs on
the other side of Devon willing to oblige.
Last season, they held eight tournaments
(that's going some) plus a dinner show, which
was four more than any other club in the
county. I guess you could say any other club in
the country