Gutteridge states this quite openly in his autobiography published in 1998, which is presumably what Myler is referring to.
I've mocked the grandson enough but for balance, I'll just put this as a supplement to Miles' post above for a bit more detail. I came across the...
I've just taken a look at the grandson's Facebook profile, the guy is an absolute nut-job and extreme conspiracy theorist. Some of his views on...
I remember, I was there, also the mutual back-slapping and bestowing of the 'historian' title to the inner circle. The Lipton meltdowns were...
"They" didn't want him.
There's another bloke who I thought knew his stuff but he seems to have been hypnotised by the grandson's baloney as well. Embarrassing! :facepalm:
Unless he's a master of subtle humour, it certainly doesn't appear so. Just looks like he's swallowed the grandson's story, hook, line and sinker....
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...
The Folley fight didn't even last three rounds. Are you thinking of Machen?
John Doherty and Pat Doherty met for the British Super-Featherweight title in the 80's. Both were born Patrick Doherty but one fought as John.
Perhaps not what you're looking for but Henry Cooper's twin brother was George Cooper but he fought as Jim Cooper because their was already an...
They were amateur rivals as well meeting three times, Cooper coming out on top 2-1. They fought eight times in total.
He was born in 1863, he appears on the 1871 census, the passenger list for the ship that the family sailed to New Zealand on in 1873 still exists....
Hardly an infant, Fitz had passed his tenth birthday when his family set sail from England for the Antipodes.
