Boxing News magazine 27.7.1984 Download pdf

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A CROWD of about 7,000 saw
HEROL "BOMBER" GRAHAM
extend his record to 27 wins in 27
bouts at the expense of chunky
American LINDELL HOLMES at
the Bramall Lane football ground
on a Sunday afternoon.
But controversy surrounded the
ending on Alma Ingle's open-air
promotion. Referee Micky Vann
stopped the bout after 53 seconds
of the fifth round when the Detroit
middleweight sustained a cut in
the corner of his left eye. Moments
earlier Holmes had turned aside to
wipe blood from the eye with the
back of his glove.

JOHN McKITTRICK has
accurately expressed the
dissatisfaction of many
amateur boxing supporters
with the present ABA
championship set-up.
Possibly he already knows
that as recently as the early
1970s Scotland and Wales were
required to box, respectively.
Northern Counties and Combined
Services to win their
places in the British semifinals.
Annoyed by their lack
of success, they pulled out of
the 1973 championships but
were re-admitted in 1974 — on
entirely their own terms and
under the system we have today!

BARRY McGUIG AN
lived up to expectations in
his American TV debut
even though the Yanks
thought his bout with Paul
DeVorce was stopped a
shade too soon.
But there was no doubt that
I r e l a n d ' s exciting featherweight
was dominating De-
Vorce in the CBS-televised
bout from Belfast, even though
the network commentator.
Tim Ryan, protested that "the
young American was not given
much of a chance to rally."

CLYDE McINTOSH has a message
for B r i t a i n ' s lightwelterweights
— he's on his way
back.
The 1982 ABA finalist who
crowned his summer with a
bronze medal at the Brisbane
Commonwealth Games has been
given the medical all-clear to box
again.
And the Coventry box-fighter can't
wait to return after more than 18
months of kicking his heels.