Boxing News magazine Download 19.9.1980.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download 19.9.1980.pdf

Boxing News Magazine 1980  Memorabilia
Boxing News Magazine 1980  History
Boxing Results 1980

Owen bids to join the greats

Bassey looks lucky

Batten is too sharp for brave Malarkey

ARUM SIGNS A WHOLE TEAM OF TALENT

Hard task for McCann

LIGHTWEIGHT George Metcalf, now based from Liverpool,
gave his domestic ranking a boost with a points win
over Martyn Galeozzie on the first show of the new season
at the World Sporting Club, writes MIKE LOCKLEY.

FORMER British light-middleweight champion Jimmy
Batten did his campaign to regain the crown a power of good
with an impressive four round win over gutsy Scot Charlie
Malarkey.
Referee Roland Dakin pulled the Glaswegian out of the
scheduled eight rounder shortly after the start of the fourth.
Malarkey, nicked under the left eye and bleeding badly from
the nose, had been floored twice in the third and was taking
a steady stream of punishment.

IT was a case of Canadian Capers at boomtown Edmonton,
Alberta on August 27 when Trevor Berbick retained his
domestic heavyweight title in an ending that's been compared
with Ali's "phantom punch" triumph over Liston.
Berbick, a powerfully built immigrant from Jamaica,
hopes to tangle with John L. Gardner for the Commonwealth
title and I looked forward to getting my second
peek at him in the Canadian TV recording of his joust with
Ron Rouselle, of Toronto.

THE rematch for the WBC welterweight title between
champ Roberto Duran and ex-champ Sugar Ray Leonard
has been confirmed for November 25, a Tuesday
night fight, with closed circuit TV in North America.
Duran's manager, Carlos Eleta, said in Panama that he has
spoken with promoter Don King and "everything is
arranged.

BARRY McGUIGAN is back. The 19-year-old Commonwealth
Games gold medallist made a successful return
to the ring following his disputed defeat in the Moscow
Olympics by Zambia's Winfred Kabunda with a dramatic
second-round win over West German Andreas Bait.

RUGBY middleweight Winston Davies knocked out
Worksop's Harry Watson after 44 seconds of the seventh
round in their scheduled eight round bill-topper at the
Empress Rooms, Mexborough.