Some Vic Toweel scans

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  1. fists of fury

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    I maybe should have just uploaded these in McGrain's thread, but I feared it would get lost in the shuffle.

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    Here is Vic with his father, Mike 'Papa' Toweel, posing in the gym buillt out in the back yard of their house in Benoni.

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    Papa Toweel in the pic above, in his fighting prime, and the whole Toweel clan in the pic below.

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    Toweel with Tony Lombard.

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    Toweel in his prime.

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    Meeting Manuel Ortiz ahead of their fight.

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    Flattening Danny O' Sullivan. I think it is still a world record for most number of knockdowns in a title fight.

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    Meeting Primo Carnera in Cape Town sometime in the 50's. (Above)
    Dancing with a niece (Below.)

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    Meeting Ewart Potgieter at ringside. Potgieter was one of the tallest and heaviest heavyweights of all time.

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    Willie Toweel (With brother Frazer in the backround) with the legendary Archie Moore.

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    Vic's brother Willie, an outstanding lightweight.