Holmes knocks down Frank to keep title
NZPA Atlantic City Larry Holmes closed his fellow American Scott Frank’s right eye, knocked him down and stopped him
in the fifth round of a onesided fight yesterday, and retained his World Boxing Council heavyweight championship for the twentysixth time in his unbeaten career.
It was all Holmes from the opening bell, and the end came after Frank, complaining he bad been thumbed by a right hand, dropped to the canvas in the fifth round. The referee, Tony Perez, ruled it a knockdown.
. Frank got up at four and Holmes resumed the attack, but Perez jumped in and stopped the fight at Imin 28s of the fifth round.
The world-ranked featherweight contender, Rocky Lockridge, survived a firstround knockdown yesterday and coasted to a unanimous points win over the former World Boxing Council junior lightweight champion, Cornelius Boza-Edwards, in a 10-round junior lightweight bout.
The fight preceded the W.B.A. junior welterweight championship between
Aaron Pryor and Alexis Arguello. Lockridge, aged 24, fell in the first round from a right to the head while off balance, but bounded back to beat Boza-Edwards to the punch. Boza-Edwards, aged 27, began to tire in the eighth round and Lockridge jarred him several times with solid left hooks to the bead. Aaron Pryor of the United States knocked out Alexis Arguello of Nicaragua in the tenth round yesterday to retain his World Boxing Association junior welterweight title.
Holmes knocks down Frank to keep title
Press, 12 September 1983, Page 25
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