An early, petrified Nelson, who still managed to floor Brian. Nevertheless, Schumacher was a fine amateur who beat Henry Maske in the unpaid ranks.
On this same theme, when Joe Bugner finally showed some aggression and stopped Richard Dunn in the first round at Wembley back in the 1970s, it...
He was a quality amateur who should have gone to the 1980 Moscow Olympics but for the fact - always very much his own man - he refused a box-off...
Yes they were but he stopped Ossie Ocasio (who also quit like Sykes) who went on to become a very successful cruiser. Gardner was a superfit,...
Not sure about Sykes as an amateur. As a pro he had the talent but not the temperament. He was a very disturbed man, in truth, and died quite...
I was always impressed with McCormack. He reminded me a little of Francesco Damiani, the blubbery Italian whose build belied his undoubted boxing...
Yeah, I watched him box live at Gloucester in 1987 in the all-England ABA championships but I cannot remember against whom (he won, of course)....
George and Ray Gilbody were brilliant amateurs who won a hatful of ABA titles between them and, from memory, were the first brothers to win ABA...
All good fighters. Marvin Stone is still involved in the game as a trainer.
Bigcat, as Scrap says, Barrett and Angol had just left Duff and challenged for WBO titles on the same night on a Warren show. It proved a...
Yeah, I remember when Ampofo challenged for a world title at little York Hall (I think against Baby Jake) there was an outcry that a world title...
He did stop him. Kilimanjaro was a pretty good fighter but lacked stamina. Hughroy Currie had beaten him couple of years earlier when Harry Gibbs...
Yes, Akinwande flopped disastrously in a couple of ABA finals (clutching) before he beat the comebacking Hylton for the title in 1988 and then an...
I know the 1980s but it all becomes a bit of a blur as the world title scene sadly frgamented from the 1990s.
Canada's Willie DeWitt beat him in the final of the 1982 Commonwealth Games at heavyweight (in about eight seconds). DeWitt could have been...
