Dick Tiger lost a load of early ones including 4 on the trot when he first arrived in England.
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Just broke the news to my dad. A real shock for someone like my dad who will always remember John as a young man. John was one of the top...
Remember meeting him when I was a kid. Lovely fella. RIP.
Didn't know that about Johnny King, but both Walter McGowan and Charlie Magri were awarded the belt due to no suitable challenger.
Mario D“Agata,
Sounds good, looking forward to reading it. I like the sound of the reformed fight stories derived from multiple sources.
Donny Lalonde vs SRL was for the WBC lightheavy and vacant WBC super middle titles.
Boxing Babylon is a good read, talks about Ketchel and his murder goes through to Tyrone Everett
Richel Hersisia who fought Audley Harrison.
Both fights in Spain as well. From what I've read Buchanan's loss to Velasquez was contraversial.
No, he got beat fair and square, was decked early on a couple of times but came back strong at that end. Getting stopped early in the Olivares...
He retired unbeaten 40 odd fights to go into a monastry as far as I know. My dad lost a European title fight against him said he really rated him...
Are you Ted as in Ted "the Bull" Sares?