mickey duff has died

Duff certainly was wealthy,Jarvis Astaire was nicknamed Mr.X by other boxing promoters,rivals they had none.

My first early memories of British boxing in particular was watching Sportsnight from a smoke filled Wembley,Duff a massive figure in British boxing history.

 

Like I said previously, as I remember it there was found to be nothing illegal about the arrangement. If you have any official or credible source that in fact shows there was found to be an ILLEGAL CARTEL, present it here.
I remember there being some fuss in the press, but I thought it came to nothing.
One of the main problems the press seemed to have with the thing was the fact that Terry Lawless, a boxing manager, was exclusively linked to a promoter. Which seems kind of quaint now, in an age where there doesn't seem to be much pretense whatsoever about the promoters directly managing the fighters. That whole area of 'conflict of interest' seems not to be even frowned at these days, nevermind investigated.

 

Britain had TEN WORLD CHAMPIONS in the 1980's. All under the aegis of Mickey Duff , can you name another period anywhere near as successful? Duff/ Levene promoted Terry Downes to a world title in the 60's, likewise Howard Winstone.In the 70's they promoted three men who won world titles,Conteh,Stracey, and Hope.

Britain had its first heavyweight title fight for nearly a century when Levene and Duff promoted Ali v Cooper in 1966.Yeh Boxing sucked in the 60's and 70's atsch

Those decades were the Golden Age of British boxing.

 

mcvey you are not stupid, you know exactly what happened. I suspect you know all about the National Boxing Council, who was behind it and who continually made the BBB of C back down as they did not have a legal footing in the early 80s; ending the 'illegal cartel' of Duff et al.

 

Duff/Astaire Barrett/and Levene were not illegal and they were totally exonerated in a BBOC inquiry that went on for several months. The final hearing went on for over 6 hours, and the findings were that not only had they broken no rules of the Board Of Control or the Laws of the UK, the chariman of the inquiry, Sir David Hopkin made the following public statement."Furthermore but for the input of these people British boxing would not be in the healthy state it is today".

The Office of Fair Trade also ruled they had no case to answer.

Total vindication.It's a matter of public record.