Boxing News magazine 8.4.1988 Download pdf

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THE roller-coaster career of erratic
Liverpool heavyweight Noel Quarless is
on the upswing again after his close-call
points win over the former WBA world
champion John Tate at York Hall.
Quarless has twice failed to win an
eliminator for the British title, but can
now boast victories over a two-time
European champ (Anders Eklund) and
an ex-world champ, Tate.

FANS at Mike Barrett's promotion at the Guildhall, Portsmouth,
on Wednesday can expect an open, action-filled championship
such as they dream of when Gary Cooper defends his British
light-middleweight title against official challenger Gary Stretch
over 12 rounds.

WITH 25 consecutive wins since turning professional in
October 1984, heavyweight Gary Mason, now rated
number 14 in the world by the WBC, meets Minnesota
heavyweight Rocky Sekorski over ten rounds in the joint
main event at York Hall on a Mickey Duff and Terry
Lawless promotion on Wednesday (April 13).
The other main bout features promising middleweight
Michael Watson against American Eddie Hall. Watson,
after his impressive fifth-round stoppage win over Don Lee
in February, has moved to number 21 in the latest WBC
rankings.

EXPERIENCE and cunning overcame youth and power as
veteran Rocky Lockridge retained his IBF super-featherweight
title and upset the odds as he pounded out a
unanimous 15-round decision over previously undefeated
challenger Harold "The Shadow" Knight at the Sands
casino hotel.
Lockridge was wobbled by a big left hook — Knight's
most dangerous punch — in the 11th round but he rallied.
And Lockridge finished strongly to clinch the victory on the
scorecards of the three New Jersey judges.

A WORTHY Irish selection emerged with honours from a
two-match American trip, winning each tournament by five
bouts to three.
Happiest of the visiting team were the Belfast pair Ray
Close and Joe Lowe, who won both their contests, at
Atlantic City, New Jersey, on March 11, and at Queen's,
New York, eight days later.