Hope you enjoyed them Vic.
Thanks for the update TR. He doesn't know me but if it helps, tell him a fan was asking about him.
Jack Bodell v Billy Walker Tony Sibson v Frankie Lucas George Feeney v Ray Cattouse Kostas Petrou v Rocky Kelly, (Or indeed any fight involving...
Absurd comparison. Cooper had 13 Stone 6 pounds behind a shot that dear old Reg Guutteridge described as the best left hook of any Heavyweight....
Great post. I hope Paul is doing OK. I heard a few years back that he was living with his Mum, part paralysed and unsurprisingly, in a very dark...
Boxing history is always revising itself. At the moment a lot of people on sites like these are wetting themselves over Sonny Liston. To those of...
Exactly the point I was going to make Scar.
In that era, to get big fights and a glimpse of a Title, you had to be. I'm sure my old sparring partner @mcvey will tell you, at one time in the...
Pat Cowdell. Can't give you the stat's but Pat was a really spiteful puncher when he held his feet. Pat didn't turn pro until he was 23 and the...
Williams was the first Fighter I read about throwing the, "Bolo", punch. Took Ronnie James apart with it in Cardiff. UK Boxing writers had never...
One old, well before most of us were born but I read about it in my Uncle Joe's scrapbooks. Ted Broadribb throwing poor Freddie Mills in round...
Absolutely Mike. Worst I ever saw was Charlie Nash cornering a lad called Steve Friel at Digbeth Civic Hall. Friel had been an All Ireland...
Bruno never decked, stopped or knocked out an elite level Heavyweight. The big names on his record were either retired or going to or coming from...
Owen Moran is still name checked after over a hundred years. Jimmy Wilde was certainly respected. He was the only British inductee in the original...
Nice to hear Jim got props in the States. An excellent Champion in his time.
