Boxing News magazine Download 23.5.1980.pdf

Boxing News magazine Download 23.5.1980.pdf

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

BUCHANAN COMES BACK HOME IN KNOCKOUT STYLE

Wily Young will push  Cooney all way

It's so tough for Needham in battle of Midland stars

OVERWEIGHT ABBOTT SCRAMBLES TO DRAW

MARSH SAYS 'NO' TO MOSCOW BOX-OFF AGAINST FROST

European middleweight champion Kevin Finnegan is
hoisted in the air by cornerman Tony Sibson (left) and
John Huntley after clinging onto his title by drawing
with Georg Steinherr in Munich last week. Ringside
report and more pictures on pages 12-13.

FORMER world lightweight champion Ken
Buchanan made a triumphant return to the British
boxing scene with a dramatic knockout victory
over Manchester-Moroccan Najib Daho at the
World Sporting Club.
The elegant Scot, making his first fighting appearance
in this country for over seven years, poleaxed latesubstitute
Daho with a flashing right at the start of the
seventh.

A STUNNING left hook to the jaw from Nuneaton's
ROY VARDEN ended NIGEL THOMAS' interest in their
eight rounder at the Arden Sporting Club.
Thomas, from Swansea, was caught cold 59 seconds into the
sixth, dropping to the canvas to be counted out by Jim Pridding,
who refereed throughout.
Up to the dramatic end, the contest had been packed with
interesting exchanges with gutsy Thomas (10-7) punching to
the body.

UNDEFEATED heavy-weight Irish Gerry Cooney faces
his biggest test after a careful and, some say, overprotective
build-up when he meets veteran Jimmy
Young in an intriguing 10-rounder at Atlantic City, New
Jersey on Sunday (May 25).
The afternoon bout is to be televised in the United t
States on the CBS network and a win for Cooney isi
expected to put him in line for a title bout with Mike;
Weaver, the World Boxing Association champion.

BRITISH featherweight champion Pat Cowdell continues his title rivalry
with fellow Midlander Dave Needham at Wolverhampton's Civic Hall on
Thursday. It's the third time that the fighters have met with the
championship at stake and victory would give either man full ownership
of a Lonsdale Belt. A win for Cowdell would make history by giving him
the Belt in record time.

SUGAR RAY LEONARD, the fight game's biggest
attraction, is guaranteed a record purse of £3.2 million
from all revenues when he defends his World Boxing
Council welterweight title against Roberto Duran,
Panama's former great lightweight champion, in the
open air at Montreal on June 20.

ROYAL Navy light-heavyweight TOMMY TAYLOR was the hero of England's
six man team that collected a creditable four medals in West
Germany's first multi-nations tourney staged in the Rhein-Ruhr Halle at
Duisberg.

ABA light-flyweight champion Terry Barker displays the ABA junior and
senior trophies he gained in consecutive seasons. Terry is the first Repton
boxer to achieve this double since the brilliant Micky Carter in 1966-
67. Carter, like Barker, was also a southpaw. Pictured with Terry are
George Bowers (left), who trained Terry for the junior title, and Tony Burns
who guided him to the senior championship.