Made this Thread earlier today but but got deleted, because I guess the Mods just want Threads about Floyd, Pac, Kha... This is not the first time My thread gets Deleted (Ali stripped of his title first got deleted also), so an explanation why it does get deleted will be great... Turpin documentary [yt]watch?v=eSS3oLP3YlY[/yt] He was born in Leamington in 1928 to a black Guyanan father Lionel Fitzherbert Turpin; Lionel was the first black man in Leamington and white English mother (Beatrice Whitehouse) at a time when there were almost no people of mixed race in the country. One of Britain’s first mixed race boxers Randolph Turpin (who was recently made bankrupt), committed suicide after trying to murder his 17-month-old daughter, this day in 1966 - 48 years ago. He had struggled with money before retiring from boxing in 1962 after an unsuccessful return to the ring due to business failures during a three-year hiatus. He was reduced to fighting as a wrestler and working in a scrap yard before the Inland Revenue landed the final blow by pursuing him for years of unpaid back taxes The man was widely assumed to be suffering from the silent Killer Depression. In 1948, his older brother, became the first non-white boxer to win a British title. The following year, Dick lost his British and Commonwealth middleweight belt to Albert Finch. Randy Turpin avenged his brother’s defeat and reclaimed family honour by knocking Finch out in five rounds in 1950, bringing the Title back into the Family. He beat the GOAT Sugar Ray Robinson to become world middleweight champion 15 years prior to his death in 1951. Robinson 64 Days later reclaimed his Crown. He later unsuccessfully challenged for the middleweight crown against Bobo Olson. He Retired With a Record of 66 - 8 - 1 with 45 of those wins coming inside the distance.
