Boxing safety after Johnny Owen death
- Title
- Boxing safety after Johnny Owen death
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1980
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- Duration
- 00:02:54
- Description
- Telephone interview with Sports Minister Hector Monro on the standard of boxing safety controls after serious injuries suffered by Welsh bantamweight Johnny Owen during a world title fight in Los Angeles (09/80). Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Hector Monro
- Keywords
- Deaths; Sport; Occupational health and safety; Licences; Brain injuries; Sportsmen; Boxing; Boxers; British Board of Boxing Control; Johnny Owen
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