Boxing News magazine 20.7.1984 Download pdf

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F O R M E R European, Commonwealth and British lightmiddleweight
champion Herol Graham goes in straight at
the deep end for his first fight at the full middleweight
poundage when he takes on tough Lindell Holmes of
Detroit in an open-air 10-rounder at Bramhall Lane,
Sheffield, on Sunday a f t e r n o o n (July 22).
Alma Ingle, wife of G r a h a m ' s manager Brendan Ingle,
is the promoter. It is a risky and ambitious venture, but
with seat prices scaled f r om £15 to £1.50 she anticipates a
good house.

TWO MEN with strong Glasgow accents, Eddie Coakley
and Matt Sawers, have completed a highly-successful first
season as boxing managers and promoters.
The West of Scotland team with eight boxers from
flyweight to heavyweight and a couple of trainers — John
McDermott and Jim Melrose — have big plans to expand
their business in Scotland and eventually, maybe into
England .

SON of a fighting f a t h e r , Cardiff-born Joe Erskine had all the physical requirements
that go to the making of a heavyweight boxer, except one; at 5ft 1 litis he was about
two inches t o o short for his own good. However, he possessed real boxing skill, a fair
punch (especially to the body), and unbounded courage.
How else could he have become both British and Empire champion and kept his
crowns for almost two years at a time when there were quite a number of good big men
around, both in this country and in E u r o p e?

PHIL SUTCLIFFE, the baby-faced Dubliner with
the punching power that belies his appearance,
made the Olympic team almost by chance. And he
can call 13 his lucky number.
His hopes of getting to Los Angeles rested on the
casting votes of the Irish selectors because they
could not agree on whether to nominate Sutcliffe or
the man he beat to win the Irish senior bantamweight
title in March, Derry's Roy Nash, a nephew
of former world professional contender Charlie
Nash.