Controversial decisions seem quite common today in boxing. This is not surprising, considering the way virtually every high -level competition can be seen live, and its result debated on any number of social media platforms. Judges and judges have never been more examined than today.

Fifty years ago, much less boxing was available on television, and what was often shown edited boxing events that took place at night or even a week earlier. Some decisions, however, caused confusion and no more than the Henry Cooper V Joe Bugner competition in 1971. Another one, which stands out in this era, was the Olympic semi -final between Alan and Western German, Dieter Kottysch. The fight was shown live in Great Britain, and the verdict in favor of Kottysch caused absolute smelly, both here as in Germany.

I remember these games well, unfortunately overshadowed, like them, killing Israeli athletes. Athletics events were unique, like the performance of the US swimmer, Mark Spitz. Great Britain won 18 medals at matches, but three of them, all bronze, were won by boxers. In addition to Minter, both George Turpin and Ralph Evans were eliminated in the semi -finals, but brought a medal home. There was no dispute with two of these losses, but the verdict of the mintera was bad.

Alan was one of three hopes for medals identified by Bn In their preview a week before the start of the matches. Together with Maurice Hope and Neville Cole, Minter was awarded because he was “an aged hand in the international circuit. Good banger, and has the right forecast. He respects his command of commands even at the highest level. If he is not marked, he can reach the semi -finals.” Other members of the nine team are Billy Knight, Billy Taylor and Great Graham Moughton. . Bn The reporter got this place with a slight weight of delicate based on Crawley, but Minter did not deserve to go out when he did.

Alan started the event exceptionally well, stopping the Guyana warrior, Reginald Ford, in two rounds. Bn He informed that “with professionals on the wings of Southpaw Minter gave one of his most impressive shows to completely outclass and finally crush Ford with pure knockout.” This is the same Reggie Ford, which defeated both Dave Boy Green and Kirkland Laing in duels at Royal Albert Hall in the early 1980s.

In the next round Minter was combined with Russian Valery Tregubov, a man nine years older than Minter and with a lot of experience. Alan did not show him respect and won the streets. His next fights were against Algeria, Louucif Hanmani, and once again Alan dominated his opponent in a complex competition, pushing into the decision 4-1 in “one of the growing, hardly striking performances that we expect from the 21-year-old.” The stage was now prepared in half, and Alan was drawn against Kottysch from the host nation.

The German was another Southpaw and he also looked impressive in his transition to the last four. He was well known to fans of the fight in Great Britain because he defeated Tom Imrie and Johnny Whitehorn in international matches and was a very experienced amateur who never went to a professional. He was born in Poland, but settled in Hamburg. BN described the competition as a “criminal, stimulating battle”, in which Kottysch roared through the guerrilla crowd.

Minter had to withstand bulky, exact shots all the time, but he gave more than he got, and when at the end each boxer counted two votes from four judges, he went to the fifth man to decide on the result. He even won the fight, but he gave the voice of the casting of Kottysch with one advantage.

Alan could not get closer to the Olympic final, but more than compensated for his disappointment as a professional.

One of the best fighters who have never won the British title is undoubtedly Owen Moran from Birmingham.

While Moran was vigorous, in 1900–1916, the British title really came as a prestigious title in this country. In 1909, when the Lonsdale belt was created, all eight categories of weight had only one clear and unquestioned master. Moran boxed between Bantam in weight and airy during a long career and it is demanding for me to believe that a man of such talent was not crowned with the king of his country.

Midlands was breeding for high quality fighters at the beginning of the 20th century, and earlier produced many Barenuckle masters in England, including William Perry (The Tipton Slasher), Tom Paddock and Tom Allen, and Moran was a worthy successor to these men. His first crucial competition took place at the National Sporting Club in 1903 against Digger Stanley and although Moran lost this fight on points, it led him to leading leading Bantamsweights that day. In January 1905, both met again, in the same place, this time over twenty rounds and in the match, which was settled for the 8th championship of 2 pounds in England. This time Moran made a decision and in a few months he was in the US during his first route, where he won both competitions, including victory over Monte Attell, the brother of the more famed Abe.

It was in the States that he seemed to fight at its best and stayed there between 1907 and 1912, and he gained a huge name in the world for himself. In November 1907, he turned the leading claimant to the title of featherweight Frankie Neil. The men were contracted to weigh 122 pounds three and a half hours before entering the ring, and after managing constant defeating Moran won when the police entered the ring to stop the competition.

After passing this test, Moran was invited to Box Atentell for the title of the world in a featherweight, and two men met on Modern Year, 1908, in 25-runy in San Francisco, with the referee is nothing more than the former world champion, James J Jeffries.

Jeffries was a much better warrior than he was a third man and decided to draw after two men stood on their fingers for 75 minutes. A consensus among observers, especially the British, was that Moran won quite easily. “”Mirror of Life and Boxing World“He probably called it in an editorial article, when he stated that” Moran had to do better than Attell, otherwise Americans would have received a decision. “

In his next competition, Owen decided in a newspaper in Sześcień against the Great Ad Wolgast. With so many US states prohibiting boxing, unless the warriors did not agree to the competition without a decision -making, the judge could not issue a sentence if the fight conducted a full course. To deal with this, a survey was taken among these reporters, and the unofficial winner was a man who gained the most votes. That is why the newspapers decided about the result.

Moran also defeated Harlem Tommy Murphy, Matty Baldwin and Frankie Conley, and in 1910 knocked out the fight with Nelson, one of the best and the most cruel, from early world airy masters.

When Moran finally returned to Great Britain in 1912, he was quickly adapted to the Great Jim Driscoll for the title of British featherweight, and two men met on January 27, 1913 at the National Sporting Club, and once again the decision about the draw between Moran and the title. This time the consensus was with Welsh, although Moran fought the heart, he didn’t do enough to win. He retired a few years later and died in his family Birmingham, at the age of 64, in 1949.

Two pretty exponents of British boxing in the early 1980s are Sid Smith from Forest Hill, London and Chris Sanigar from Bristol. Both were really challenging people who could hit, and although none of them won the British title, they conducted aspirants in super-files.

Chris is now a successful manager, promoter and trainer who devoted his life to sport and is undoubtedly the best man in Bristol Boxing. As an amateur, Bristol Empire ABC raised, and after defeating Steve Early and Sylvester min on the way he reached the final of ABA in 1977, losing to Jim Douglas of Camperdown. Then he won the title of Eastern County in 1978, after the second year, before he abandoned the Professional box.

Smith also had an excellent amateur pedigree. He achieved triple as a adolescent man in 1975, winning the titles of NABC, London Feds and ABA Junior at 60 kg. He boxed many times in the international arena for adolescent England, before he represented London in the match against Paris in 1977, where he convincingly defeated his man. Fitzroy Lodge’s boxing was then won by London South-East Divisionals, after which he lost to Sylvester M-Cituter in the final in London. Like Sanigar, he became a professional in 1978.

Smith signed a contract with Dennie Mancini and soon entered the top ten British in Super-Delicate weight. Despite the early defeat with the useful Frank McCord Swansea, Sid won each of the other 11 competitions, and then was adapted with Sanigar in the free crown of Sothern Area. Chris changed the professional in September 1978, six months later than Sid, and like the Londonian, he started his career, winning his first seven. Then he hit a rocky patch, starting from two round defeats of George McGurka Jarrow in the Midland Sporting Club in Solihull. After that, Chris lost four of the next 12, but some of his victories were very credible, including, in April 1981, victory for a four -shaped break over Dan M’put in Dunkierka, France, and right after this competition Chris got a phone call to the box smith for the title of the southern area.

On paper it was a very evenly matched competition. At that time, Sanigar was rated in fifth place in Great Britain with Smith only one place behind him. Due to the last fiascos on some huge programs promoted by Mickey Duff and Mike Barrett, Bn He had a policy of evaluating upcoming competitions in his previews. The fight of Sanigar-Smith took place at the Royal Albert Hall on a card directed by the heavyweight Gordon Ferris, who was tailored to the American journeyman, twoin Bonds.

Bn The A+fight was rated, stating that “Sanigar can make the narrowest point decisions, but Smith has a chance of Puncher” in how he considered “the fight of the night.”

In this case, the fight for an unsatisfactory ending, when judge Larry O’Connell stopped the fight because of the Sanigar suffered a nasty wound over the left eyebrow after the clash in the third round. It was obvious that the rematch was necessary, and the head of Sanigar, George Francis, did not waste time to organize it, and two men met six months later in the center of Leisura Elephant and Castle in Southwark.

This time the fight was very good Bn The main “such thriller like Sanigar has a title.” Two men constantly exchanged centuries in four rounds, which lasted with a report stating that “in the case of raw, concentrated excitement, compact clash must take this year the best observed in national rings. Fans witnessed boxing chaos, with an venerable -fashioned grit and determination by Sanigar. “After the second round, Chris found strength to blow up his shots in London. After the duel, Chris admitted that “I served my practice and it was challenging. I would not wish this kind of education on my worst enemy. “

They were really two challenging men.