july 10 1952. Thomas Reginald turnbull, a former new Zealand light heavyweight from 1950 empire games fought Robert desmond mcelwaine who were friends fought in a paddock in north rothbury to the death. http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/23186821 they don't fight like that much these days.
Nasty *******s those drapers , last time I had any truck with one of them I ended up with 982 stitches .
Yep they were tough *******s back then,been a few fighters die in the ring over the Years,the Great Man Hector Thompson was involved in 2 incidents some years back,bloody tragedy because Hector was World Class and was never the same after this happened.!!!!
Same can be said of Aussie Joe Bugner mate , death of an opponent early doors in someone's career can have an effect .
Very interesting to see this here. He was my uncle although I never met him, he was killed theyear before I was born. I still have several silver cups he won for athletics and boxing. I also have his 1950 British Empire Games bronze medal David Thomas Ray
thought this thread was about this http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/mundine-investigated-over-hunter-fracas-20121002-26xi0.html metford being a suburb of maitland
