The production of heavyweight master takes years. Even great such as Ali, Marciano, Tyson and Dempsey had to learn their fighting with six dates in tiny rooms before they crashed the world rankings and fell into greatness.

Is it whose was it to let Pete Rademacher fight for the global heavyweight title in his debut? It was the idea of ​​Pete Rademacher. IN Bn Article from 1957. Rademacher, which recently won Olympic gold at matches in Melbourne in 1956 during the American army’s officer, said that “I thought my Olympic win would facilitate the good civil post. But not sir! Nobody tied any importance to my gold medal. Then I got a brain wave. I would fight for the title of the world. ” Pete organized a trustee to collect money, and the match with Floyd Patterson was relatively easily made.

Pete had no chance against Patterson. Floyd’s reputation will always suffer from his two one -off losses towards Sonny Listona, but in the behind schedule 1950s he was a class contractor and for the 1960s. Despite the fact that he was knocked down, he managed to decorate the rademacher rademer seven times on the way to the decisive six rounds of victory. Untilled Pete fought with another leading heavyweight in Zora Folley and once again Pete was knocked out.

He had to build a little lower and build a proper career, so he took a year, and then resumed his career in American boxing backwaters, winning wins in Columbus, Ohio and Greenville in Southern Carolina. Unfortunately, Piotr was a kind of broken flushing in the United States, so in 1960 he came across Europe to make something of his fame. After two competitions in Germany, in one of them he could only manage a draw, he was adapted to the former British heavyweight champion, Brian London Blackpool, in the 10th order in Empire Pool, Wembley.

Brian himself needed victory when he started three plain losses. After the loss of the British title, Henry Cooper went in a bold rehearsal against Patterson for the title of world heavyweight, and then lost in seven rounds with a Cuban challenging man, Nino Valdes. The match with Rademacher was the perfect match for him. He boxed against the fighter, but the one who did not represent too much threat.

Rademacher turned out to be popular among both fans and reporters, and you can see him how he hit the speed of speed in Toby’s junior high school in Southwark. BnUndoubtedly, delighted with the loss of Brian’s form, he recognized Pete’s chances against London, tilting him to win the fight. London was in an ugly mood, annoying the promoter of Jacek Solomons, remaining in the capital only one day while gathering before the fight before he returned to the north, where he preferred his training exercises and cooking his mother to finish the preparation.

Blackpool Blockbuster did not make a mistake at night. After what was a bad competition, during which Rademacher dominated the behavior with his stab, Brian approached the imposition of his authority and class. In the sixth round he hit the American with five unanswered, which knocked out pushing the opponent. On the floor of his man by eighth number, Brian “torn out into the rival, hit him with every blow in the book – and electrifying the couple who was not, including a powerful kitty on the neck, when the rademacher tried to break with danger, and Pete went again.” In the next round London did not waste time. He charged the ring and took his man with his left hook.

Rademacher fought for two more years and despite defeating George Chuvalo and Bob Olson, he was never the same after losing to London and gave up the game to succeed in business. He died in 2020, at the age of 91.

For everyone interested in the British boxing scene in the 1920s and the 1930s, they could not do anything better than read two books, which are unique in terms of performance not only of the national scene at that time, but they provide some context how sport was seen in society. There is a lot in them to surprise the newfangled reader.

First book, Born in BoxIt is written by a long -time collaborator in this column, Alex Daley, and tells the extraordinary story of his grandfather, Nipper Pat Daly. Second, Rochadale ThunderboltHe is equally good in the history of Jock McAvoy. This book, written by a former manager and promoter, Jacek Doughty, tells the story of boxing in Rochdale since the mid -1920s and contains some great photos of juvenile boys, mainly from the cities of Lancashire Mill, who fought in the open air at the Roiton stadium.

Jock McAVoy is one of the most arduous fighters in Great Britain. He had the title of British average in 1933–1934, after which he won the title about lithe weight in 1937. He was a great blow and a wild man in the ring. On the way, from 1927, McAvoy wore most of his national opponents, and among them there were several real people, simply passing through them before providing a blow. A very high percentage of his victories was achieved by pure knockout, and soon became the star of the best line in Belle Vue in Manchester, where, together with stable colleagues, Jackie Brown and Johnny King created a third of the triumvirus of boxers in Manchester, who made the city the capital of the province in the mid -1930s.

Jock had a reputation when he performed best when he was in front of his home fans and thought he didn’t travel particularly well. For example, in January 1935 he went to Paris to fight Marcel Thil for the title of European medium weight and was beaten on points after full 15 years. Then he had three competitions in Belle Vue against the Spanish, Australians and the Frenchman, and he licked all three. When he went to America, this fall, there wasn’t much from him. He was adapted to Al McCoya, a challenging lightweight, which won 21 at the trot, a lot at a distance. Bn I was right, saying that although they did not know much about America: “We may feel quite sure that McCoy must be a useful performer, because it usually does not happen that the British master has something effortless for his American debut.” The headline of the next week was therefore the most welcome: “McVoy mastered McCoya. The British medium weight master is a great hit in Madison Square Garden. “

American fans immediately started to Jock. Pre-fight Underdog, his two-handed impact delighted the observers and twice threw McCoya on the pants sitting. The decision in his favor was unanimous, and the promoters did not waste time to adapt him to Eddie Babe risk three weeks later. This time Jock really took the place with storm when he sensationally hit his rival in less than three minutes.

The United Kingdom produced a long line of masters who failed to find in the United States, and many of them achieved extremely badly, so Jock’s exploits were delighted not only by Americans, but also the legions of fighting fans who knew that the best of our boys were for everyone.

Jock missed his challenge in the world title with John Henry Lewis the following year, again in Madison Square Garden, but his story is good, and Douggy’s book tells it beautifully.

In 2020, in our series at the 50 best competitions, which took place in Great Britain and Ireland, I took a clash of February 1979 between Clinton McKenzie and Colin Powers for British delicate titles of lightweight weight weight to the sixth number. The competition between these two has expanded far beyond this competition and you can do a good case of return that took place later in the same year as another candidate for this prestigious list. In this case, their second fight simply missed, but what a competition it was.

Two men met twice as amateurs, and McKenzie wins both, and when they became professionals, it was inevitable that their paths would exceed again. Powers was the first of the couples who hit the salary, turning over in June 1975 and made a quick impression. As an amateur Colin, he won the title of the North-West Division in London at the beginning of this year, but in the finals in London he had a misfortune to find himself with the final winner, the outstanding Graham Moughton, who knew too much for him in the semi-finals. Powers immediately announced that he was going to transform a professional. After winning his first eight competitions, he went in five rounds to Des Morrison in the title challenge in the southern area in September 1976. In the next month, McKenzie became a professional, and as an outstanding amateur he was expected from him. Master ABA in 1976 in a delicate circle, McKenzie also passed in the European Championships at the level of under 21 and at the senior level, before he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard in the last 16 years at the Olympic Games in 1976.

As a professional, Clinton easily won his first four, and then he was adapted to Powers in the eight round at the Hilton Hotel, Mayfair. Powers returned from loss to Morrison, winning four in a row, and his victims, including two former British champions in Joey Singleton and Tommy Glencross. Bn Slightly privileged perception permissions, commenting that Powers, which was at a slight risk, took a high risk. In a match made in 9. 12 pounds, Colin was in a destructive form, and the crowd was shocked, seeing how he completely overwhelm his rival, throwing him in just two rounds.

“I never wanted to beat anyone like that,” said Colin after the consequence. “When I turned with a professional, I told my manager Vic Andreetti that if McKenzie ever decided a professional as the one I wanted to fight above all. Today everything went to the set. “

During the year, Colin defeated Morrison for a British lightweight title, defended him against Steve Walker, and then stuck Jean-Baptiste Piedvache in eleven rounds to pick up the European title. Then he lost his European title in a complex fight with Fernando Sanchez, being a victim of an absurdly early detention, and also left his British title.

Clinton did not speak not excuses for his loss for power, returned to the gym, returned to the basics, and then began to win a good win against excellent British pretenders. At the end of 1978, he defeated this challenging Irishman, Jim Montague, who received the title recently abandoned by Powers. And so the stage was prepared for a rematch between Clinton and Colin and what was the fight! As I wrote in 2020. This is one of them. “It was Colin that regained his title on one round.

In the September rematch, Clinton finally beat his professional nemesis in another outstanding competition Bn By reporting that “their two fights will have to divide the common status of the best of 1979.” Two great masters who are the direct winners of the Lonsdale belt.