Bert Gilroy

:rofl :bbb

 

the greatest British middleweight never to "hold" a British or World title! Denied his shot, and for 10 years!!!

see Charley Rose, Jimmy Wilde, Eugene Henderson - Turpin/SRR 1, Norman Hurst and a slew of other top boxing men from the period.

 

The most well read British boxing historian in the country decided to expose the myth of Gilroy once and for all. The book written about him was essentially fiction.

https://boxrec.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=240466&sid=fcd0abf732e49088645eadde2e7fafc4

 

Interesting... didn't Gilroy have a relative who used to go around bigging him up?

 

See two posts before yours.

 

He did, and that is why this post is important.

No one should ever mention Gilroy again, unless it’s ‘is Bert Gilroy a top 5,000 ranked British boxer of all time’

He was a good fighter but nothing special, despite what Thistle said for years (we all told him then as well but if Miles Templeton says it, there can be no comeback)

 

Funnily enough a relative of mine was a contemporary of Gilroy's. They actually had a few common opponents but I don't think they ever met (it's not on Boxrec anyway). Never met the man or saw him fight but by all accounts he wasn't someone you'd want to tangle with. Still it would silly to pretend he was Sugar Ray Robinson when he clearly wasn't.

 

Mcvey and I have been trying to bring some common sense to the rantings of Gilroys grandson for years.

 

I like to read about the details of lesser-known fighters.That's what boxing history is about.
Good job by Gilroy's relative for highlighting the man's career.

 

You have to admire his loyalty,if not his objectivity.

 

You weren't reading the 'details of lesser-known fighters', you were having his relative lie, lie, lie, fabricate things that were completely untrue.

You might as well never heard about Gilroy, and that is the whole point of me linking that forum post.

All that Gilroy's relative did by lying, was for someone years later to finally have enough and set the record straight.

The book he published is an absolute joke and unfortunately all Gilroy's grandson has done is create a mess that still requires cleaning up years later.

 

I remember it well.

 

Bert Gilroy is the Milli Vanilli of boxing history.

To be honest, i was unaware that anyone had ever bought into him being a Sam Langford type figure.
I can't remember ever seeing him on a true ATG list on here, for example, or even a Greatest British list.

 

Been on both plenty of times due to misinformation and some folks (some who I expected much better of tbh) drinking the Kool-Aid (or should that be Irn-Bru?)

 

That link above has surf-bat ranking him in the greatest 50 fighters of all time who did not win a world title, placed at #47, ahead of Benny Yanger!