Alan minter vs vito antuofermo biography

Description : Here we have an original vintage onsite boxing poster from Caesars Palace for the undisputed world middleweight championship bout between reigning & defending champion Vito Antuefermo & challenger Alan Minter, 16th March 1980.

England's Alan "Boom Boom" Minter won the undisputed world middleweight title by a 15 round split decision. The fight was a contrast in styles, with Minter, a classic stand-up boxer, using right jabs to keep Antuofermo at bay. But he couldn't do so all the time and the Italian-born mauler lowered his head and rushed in, frequently driving Minter to the ropes. The two fighters, both known as heavy bleeders, suffered cuts over their eyes. Antuofermo, dropped Minter down in the 14th round with a right to the body, but Minter, scrambled quickly to his feet. Minter was given an eight count although he claimed he had been pushed. Minter, aided by a lopsided score by a British judge, took the title from Antuofermo by a split decision in a 15 round nationally televised fight from Caesars Palace. The British judge, Roland Dakin, scored the fight 149-137 for Minter. Judge Charles Minker of Las Vegas scored it 144-141 for Minter, while judge Ladislao Sanchez of Venezuela scored it 145-143 for Antuofermo.

Postage: £10.00 Special Delivery... £20.00 International registered signed 4 airmail.

Condition : Very Good for Age, printed on thick paper stock with minor postal handling*edgwear with some fine drying out wrinkles,framed 4 display only!

Size : 28in x 22in

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There was blood, guts, racism, pride, danger, death, denial and some truly unforgettable nights in the boxing life and times of Alan Minter.

Minter won the unified world middleweight title one March day in Las Vegas in 1980 when he got a split decision over Vito Antuofermo in a truly bad-tempered and nasty brawl. In the next six months he would make one defence, then lose it in a fight with Marvin Hagler on a night of shame.

Eight years before Minter travelled to Las Vegas, he won a bronze medal at the Munich Olympics; he lost a controversial decision to a West German in the semi-final and that man won the gold. However, Minter was lucky to even be at the Olympics because his attempt to win the domestic amateur title that year had ended in blood when he was stopped on cuts by Frankie Lucas, who then won the national title.

Lucas was not selected, Minter was, but the pair had a fight over three rounds of three minutes on a club show at a cabaret venue in Croydon just weeks before the Olympics. Minter won the rematch, a night lost in time.

Just six weeks after losing at the Olympics, Minter turned professional in a boxing business that is now barely recognisable. In his first fourteen months the Munich idol - established very quickly as a ticket-selling machine - lost three of his sixteen fights. All the defeats had been  because of cuts and his journey must be considered extraordinary even by the harsh standards of boxing in Britain in the Seventies.

In just a six-week period at the end of 1973 he lost back-to-back fights to a man called Jan Magdziarz and there is no way that his cuts could have healed. It was a ruthless business and the promoters needed their attractions to fill either the Royal Albert Hall or Wembley Arena every few weeks. The fights were on the BBC, Minter was popular and then he became a genuine superstar.

“It was a very different world back then,

In Memory Of Alan Minter

By Melanie Lloyd

I interviewed Alan almost 20 years ago for my first volume of Sweet Fighting Man.  We had so much fun that day, and I will never forget the waiters in the restaurant closing the doors at the end of the lunchtime session and allowing us to stay and finish our conversation.  Alan was over the moon with his chapter.  He used to tell people that I was “the best boxing writer in Europe,” which always made me smile.  Now that he has passed away, it feels right to share his beautiful words one last time.  Rest easy Champ.  It was a pleasure to know you.

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“He wants looking after sometimes.  You’d have to nail him to the floor to beat him, know what I mean?  Alan could go on to be one of the greatest fighters we’ve ever had.  The boy’s something special.”  (Doug Bidwell)

ABA champion and Olympic bronze medallist, British champion and outright owner of a Lonsdale Belt, European champion, and finally undisputed middleweight champion of the world, Alan Minter was indeed “something special”.

I arranged to meet Alan for this interview at Bertorelli’s in Covent Garden.  It was a crisp and sunny October afternoon and, while I waited in the nearby square watching an exquisite mime artist who was made up like a porcelain statue, I suddenly sensed that someone was watching me and there, smiling from across the crowd, was Alan.  I walked over and we stood quietly for a few moments before he said “Just down there, you’ve got the Opera House.  There’s a really beautiful dome inside, but years ago it started coming apart.  I had a plastering company and we got the contract for it, so we went in there and put it right.”  I replied, “Oh, and which bits did you do, the cupboards?”  The reason for my audacity will become obvious as this story unfolds, but, suffice to say, I received a sharp look from Mr Minter as if to say “I see somebody has been doing her homework, madam!”

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British boxer (1951–2020)

Alan Sydney Minter (17 August 1951 – 9 September 2020) was a British professional boxer who competed from 1972 to 1981. He held the undisputedmiddleweight title in 1980, having previously held the British middleweight title from 1975 to 1976, and the European middleweight title twice between 1977 and 1979. As an amateur, Minter won a bronze medal in the light-middleweight division at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Early life

Minter was born in Penge, Bromley, Kent, to his German-born mother Anne Minter, and his father Syd Minter, a plasterer. His family moved to Crawley, West Sussex, and he joined Crawley Boxing Club at aged 11, training under John Hillier and Dougie Bidwell.

Amateur career

Minter took part at the 1970 European Junior Championships at the middleweight division, but in the very first fight he was stopped in the 2-nd round by Vyacheslav Lemeshev (USSR). Because Minter was the 1971 Amateur Boxing Association of England Middleweight Champion, he was selected to box for UK in the Olympics 1972. He won a bronze medal at the 1972 MunichOlympic Games in the light-middleweight classification, losing in the semifinal to Dieter Kottysch of West Germany by a 3-2 marginal decision which was hotly disputed. Kottysch went on to win the gold medal.

1972 Olympic results

Minter's results at the 1972 Munich Olympics are as follows:

Professional career

Minter began his professional career with 11 straight wins, the first against Maurice Thomas in London on 31 October 1972, winning by knockout in the 6th round. Minter won his first five fights by knockout until 16 January 1973, when Pat Dwyer went the distance, Minter taking the fight on points. Minter won his next five fights, three by knockout, before being defeated