Looking forward to reading them all mate.
I saw Duran with Barkley a few years ago. You just wouldn't imagine they shared a ring together and that the little guy won.
He sparred mostly with John McCluskey and Frankie Taylor before that. He sparred with a lot of the top amateurs of the day as well, Dave Needham...
Yes, dad should of took a couple of fights at featherweight before he fought Jimmy. As it happens he was struggling with the weight from 1969...
Good to see you on here Flea. I was thinking about you when I mentioned Charles Atkinson.
Dad was gonna fight him until Harada pulled the upset, Harry Levene wanted to make it in London. I talk to his son Marcel from time to time on...
He couldn't half swear as well :-)
Terry Downes had a comfortable life after boxing. He got into the property and bookmaking businesses.
