Boxing News magazine Download PDF 8.9.1972

ALAN MINTER battled to one of Britain's greatest Olympic victories by
clearly outpointing Russia's rangy Valery Tregubov to go into the lightmiddleweight
quarter finals.

NEVILL COLE, the Dublin-born lightweight
ranked as one of Britain's best medal hopes, went
out protesting after being stopped in the final
round by India's Muniswamy Venu.

ALAN MINTER battled to one of Britain's greatest Olympic victories by
clearly outpointing Russia's rangy Valery Tregubov to go into the lightmiddleweight
quarter finals.

NEVILL COLE, the Dublin-born lightweight
ranked as one of Britain's best medal hopes, went
out protesting after being stopped in the final
round by India's Muniswamy Venu.

MAURICE O'SULLIVAN, 19-year-old Cardiff flyweight,
crashed to defeat against Uganda's Leo
Rwabogo in just 1 min 20 sec of the first round
to become the second of Britain's nine-man team
to be eliminated.

BRITAIN was assured of at least two Olympic
bronze medals after the first set of quarterfinals.
Crawley light-middle Alan Minter and
Liverpool bantam George Turpin were both points
winners, but Maurice Hope, the Antiguan-born
welterweight from Hackney, lost a 5-0 decision to
the Hungarian veteran, Janos Kajdi.

TWENTY YEARS ago last month, the world of boxing was left numbed
with shock news of a road crash in Australia. On a deserted road in New
South Wales a five ton truck had ove rturned into a ditch.

KEVIN FINNEGAN, Cowley's Southern Area middleweight
champion, makes a return to action at Shoreditch Town
Hall on Tuesday. He tops the bill against Dave Cranswick
(Cardiff) over eight rounds.

AFTER two years in the semi-doldrums, with
more false alarms coming its way than the fire
department, Australian boxing is at last picking
up again.

IN 1948 it was Mills v Lesnevich again, this time
at the White City. It had taken an even more brilliant
effort by Solomons to secure the Lesnevich
signature on the contract this time.

CARLOS MARKS, Trinidad junior middle, is next in line for
Mark Rowe. They meet over eight rounds in support of the
B>b Foster v Chris Finnegan world light-heavyweight title
fight at Wembley on September 26