Lot 314: Boxing News Magazine, 2 February 1979, Vol. 35, No. 5

This issue of Boxing News, a weekly boxing magazine, is dated 2 February 1979 and identified as Volume 35, Number 5, in its 71st year of publication. The front cover, priced at 25p, features a prominent headline stating MINTER CAN TAME RUDY THE REBEL, accompanied by monochrome photography of Alan Minter and Rudy Robles. The text provides details of Minter’s upcoming bout at the Wembley Conference Centre. Additional cover text references a British title defence by Bill Clinton McKenzie against Colin Powers and a secondary headline stating IRELAND CRUSH SCOTS. The publication is a paper-based periodical with a red, white, and black masthead.