Terry Spinks - £6,900 purse for a Southern Area Defence in the 1960's

Discussion in 'British Boxing Forum' started by colinthfc, Jan 13, 2011.


  1. colinthfc

    colinthfc Guest

    John McDermott in a recent BN interview said something he would change in boxing was the money. He gave the example of a £4,000 purse for a defence now, and compared it to the Spinks purse in the thread title.

    Is this true?
     
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  2. GazOC

    GazOC Guest Star for Team Taff Full Member

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    Dunno about the amounts Colin but Spinks was an Olympic gold medalist and the Area titles were a lot more highly regared back then as well but that said, theres no record of Spinks contesting an area title on Boxrec....maybe McD meant British title?
     
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  3. colinthfc

    colinthfc Guest

    That sounds more likely
     
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  4. AlFrancis

    AlFrancis Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    that would of been a big purse back then.
     
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  5. wrimc

    wrimc Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Spinks was hot property that is an awful lot of money back then but Spinks was the darling of British boxing at the time so not entirely impossible.
     
    wrimc, Jan 13, 2011
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  6. jc

    jc Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Spinks was a name.
     
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  7. Renegade

    Renegade Active Member Full Member

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    He got the info from his personal BN archive and having written a Spinks piece for our centenary bookazine I am pretty sure he is right. The 4k he referred to was not purses now but the price of a house in Spinks' day
     
    Renegade, Jan 13, 2011
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  8. wrimc

    wrimc Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I suppose comparatively you could use the potential Groves Degale matchup as an example if it goes to purse bids Degale another Olympic gold medallist will be getting 60% i think?

    The purse for this fight will be in the hundreds of thousands the price of a house
     
    wrimc, Jan 13, 2011
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