Rudkin vs McGowan II - a wee history lesson from me

:goodnow your talking bennie.is it 88 knockouts he had ??

 

Must be. Jock actually beat the world middleweight champ in the States in a non-title affair and was then refused a rematch. They did give him a shot, though - at world light-heavyweight king John Henry Lewis.
McAvoy was crippled with MS in later life but remains (surely) one of the few men in life to chin someone from a wheelchair. That was at a boxing show in the 1970s - his victim, a disrespectful fan. Now, that must have been something!

 

he was actually sat in his specially adapted car when that happened and the idiot stuck his head in the car after McAvoy had wound the window down.bang.................1 downed idiot.

 

We can't talk about McAvoy without mentioning Len Harvey.

 

:goodquite right.just a bit of northern bias on my part.
i used to work with a fella in the 70's who'd been instructed by pilot officer len harvey. as he was, during the war.

 

just been looking through Harvey's record and it turns out that the last McAvoy fight was for the "World" title BBBC version. So don't think we can include him.

 

nella tarleton then

 

good shout and a scouser to boot.

 

how articulate was he.:good

 

my dad was a big fan of nel.:good

 

He lost that second fight to Carl Taylor on a cut eye but beat him in the return on points.
He won the first Ben Ali fights comfortably in Newcastle on points. Ben Ali was rated in the world top 5 at the time. The second fight for the European title was in Spain and he lost on points in what all the British papers described as a robbery. The main problem in that fight was the referee who wouldn't let me dad fight, stopping the action every time dad got on top. He said it was like fighting 2 opponents at the same time.
This fight was at the bull ring in Barcelona and me dad swears that his dressing room was the bulls dressing room. The whole Barcelona thing was a bad experience with young fellas playing drums outside his hotel through the night and he was even spat at in the streets.
As it happens I'm married to a Barcelona girl now.

 

ask al about his mate johnny pritchetts experience of fighting abroad.:fire