During the office at the Sunderland show last Sunday I had the pleasure to watch how Joe McGrail won his fifth professional competition, and meeting with Peter McGrail, whose career also began. I asked Peter if they were both related to Jimmy McGrail from Liverpool, a good professional in the early sixties, and although he confirmed that it was so, he seemed a bit unclear, how good Jimmy was during the day.

The earliest McGrail, which I can find from Liverpool, is Pat McGrail, which had two competitions in 1923 and I am sure that this is the first generation of this fighting family. Both Joe and Peter boxed Everton Red Triangle as amateurs, and Jimmy also boxed the club in the north of the city, ST Teresa. However, when he served in the Royal Air Force, Jimmy really left his trail. After winning both RAF and Combined Services Championships in 1959, Jimmy reached the last four ABA championships, which took place this year – as always – at Royal Albert Hall. Contrary to Harold Mees from Patchway, Johnny Kramer from Fairbairn House and Bobby Keddie from Scottish National AC. Jimmy contested Mees in the semi -finals, and then overtook Keddie to win a welterweight title at the age of 22.

After a decent running in the European Championships, where he left in the quarter -finals, Jimmy became a professional in November 1959. He caused excellent career starts, winning his first nine competitions at a distance and appearing as a great favorite at the Liverpool stadium. He won 16 in trotters, after which he lost to Micha Leaha of Coventry, in the British eliminator of the welterweight title in February 1961.

McGrail was a known blow, especially with his right hand, and until 1962 he was still spinning in the top four or five under his weight and considered a British title very much. The Grand National Weekend was replaced by a great boxing event at the Liverpool stadium, because the racing brotherhood always liked to watch a good box, and Jimmy was tailored to the second Liverpudlian, Tony Smith from Bootle, to the central title. They both fought 12 rounds of high -quality boxing before Smith made a decision.

McGrail’s career seemed to get stuck at that moment, so he moved to London, where he had another eight competitions. He won all except one and became a favorite of a petite hall in the capital, winning in Majestic Ballroom in Finsbury Park, in Shoreditch Town Hall and Seymour Hall in Marylebone. In December 1962 he won a good competition against Johnny Kramer at Royal Albert Hall, and this was confirmed that he was the status of the number of two pretenders for Tony Smith. Under the headline “Fire McGrail Outguns Kramer”, [i]Bn[i] He informed that “Kramer’s boxing was annulled by McGrail, who dictated the tempo and beat his man to hit. Double left JABU, brief two -handed hooks and choosing the right hook, which dropped the Kramer on seven, did not enter the problem.”

Until March 1963, Jimmy fought to the top of the welterweight rankings, and after pouring the Frenchman Daniel Brunet, in the 10-Rund in Liverpool, he won two more before he went down to this great Jamaica, Bunny Grant, when judge Harry Gibbs laid the competition with McGrail suffering from McGrail suffering.

Jimmy had another one, and his last competition was against the next great star of Liverpudlian of that time, Johnny Cooke. They both clashed at the stadium in the last eliminator of the British title and what a good scrap, which they gave in front of the packed house. Cooke undertook a verdict, and McGrail retired at the age of 27. He had a great career because I am sure that youthful Joe and Peter.

Max Schmeling is primarily remembered for being the first man who won the world heavyweight title with a foul and for two meetings with Joe Louis, with each victory through a knockout. British fighting fans 50 years ago would also know that he was twice beaten by the British fighters, and Canadian Larry Gains won in two rounds in 1925, and Welshman, Daniels Gips, stopping him in one round in 1928.

Many today with the history of this sport will recognize the name of Larry Gains, a very good heavyweight, who also defeated Primo Carner, but few will know about Daniels Gips. At the beginning of 1928, Schmeling won 33 of his 39 competitions and became a champion of European hefty weight. Meanwhile, Daniels joined the Welsh and then British hefty weight on featherlight and boxed from 1919. Two men met once in 1927, when Schmeling won a challenging competition for points and yes, for Daniels, to make the future only in one round, to be sensational.

Still, I can’t find any trace of the competition for none Bn Or Ring then. Few in Great Britain would know about Daniels’s feat to a few years later, after Max won the title of World Heavyight, and few believe that it could happen even then

1929 Everlast Boxing Record BookThen the leading publication of boxer records, even reversed the result in Max’s records, suggesting that he had Daniels’s Ko’d in the round, not the other way around. Schmeling switched to great things in the 1930s, but Daniels’ career came out, and eventually retired in 1938 after winning 97 of his 158 professional competitions.

Daniels came from Newport and after the start of his career as teenage Daniels he was chosen by the MP and boxing fanatic, Horatio Bottomley, as one of his “boys of John Bull”, a group of promising heavyweight, who, as I hoped, will restore Great Britain to global size.

Georges Carpentier paid our two leading heavyweight, Bombardier Billy Wells and Joe Beckett, in round allegations and Bottomley was so enraged that he overcame the length and width of the country for promising talents that he could cultivate.

At that time, Daniels took the name “Gipsy”, although his name is Billy. In the 1920s, Ballyhoo and bold advertising were introduced to this sport and it was thought that Daniels should be added to the history of color and mystery to highlight it.

Until 1921, Daniels ran a campaign in America and began to make waves. Although he is not hefty himself, Daniels would get into the ring with anyone, no matter how huge, and his striking power made him gain many stops over the leading hefty scales.

In 1928, when he went to Germany for a rematch with Schmeling, he used this power well. At that time, the Germans had six decent heavyweight – Schmeling, Franz Diener, Hans Breitenstraeter, Hein Mueller, Helmut Hartkopp and Hein Domgoergen. Daniels passed through three of them like a dose of salt. He continued the clinical disposable Schmeling hammers with two knockouts, both Breitestraeter and Domgoergen, with three competitions held in Berlin, Frankfurt and Leipzig respectively.

German fans had to be very impressed by Daniels, a one -man destroying the ball of their talent in hefty weight, but when he returned the following year, in 1929, he was overtaken by the other three, Diener, Mueller and Hartkopp.

In the early 1930s he had two more trips to Germany, losing in both cases the latest sensation of the heavyweight of this country, Walter Neusel.

Although he lost more than he won against the Germans, he defeated the best of them in one round and he would never be forgotten.

In the autumn of 1909, boxing in Great Britain changed for the better. Two unique institutions, both today, were first familiarized with the sports audience.

The photo shows Freddie Welsh from Boxing Pontipridd against Johnny Summers Canning Town for the British featherweight championship at the National Sporting Club at Covent Garden. The fight took place on November 8 this year and it was the first British title competition for which the Lonsdale belt was awarded. Later the same year, Tom Thomas defended his medium weight title in the Belt Competition, and at the beginning of 1910 Jim Driscoll did the same in a fertile weight. That is why the first three fighters who received the Lonsdale belt were therefore all Welsh.

In Ringside, in a press box that can be clearly seen, was John Murray, the first editor Bn. At that time, the publication was in circulation for several months, and the report from this competition can be read in its 15th edition. Excluding World War II, when Bn He appeared every two weeks and strange gaps appeared, especially when his offices were bombed during Blitz and various occasional printers in the 1950s and 1970s Bn Since then, he appeared every week.

The Welsh V Summers competition was perfect, and Murray noticed that “it was a great fight, a wonderful fight. From some points of view, this is not a particularly nice fight to watch, but from others it was incredibly pretty. This last point of view is the one that should be taken by the one that appreciated all the stout games. To speak with no quantity, there was no quantity, but there was no game, there was no quantity, but there was no expenses.

In addition to the fact that it was the first competition in the history of the belt, it was also the first British title competition submitted by [i]Bn[i]And it is captivating to see how journalistic methods have changed compared to today.

Summers won the title almost exactly a year earlier when he defeated Jacek Goldswain. All British title competitions took place within the sanctified borders of the National Sports Club, when these two met, until one of two exceptions did not change until the sport became more commercialized in the 1920s, when the club said that he could not compete with bags offered by more entrepreneurs.

A few days before the fight, Welsh, who trained in his hometown, pontypridd, took the car to Gilfach Goch and had to jump out of the vehicle when he slipped on a greasy road, destroying his leg. There were some fears that this could affect his ability during the competition, but these fears were unfounded, he burst out majestically.

A few years earlier, Welsh moved to America and in this country he learned his trade. His style was very different from Summers, who also experienced American rings during the route in 1907 and 1908, and his style and methods were novel to the British audience. Tom Scott, Tom Scott, can be seen on your chair directly between the boxers. At that time, a judge in all national competitions of the Sports Club of officials from outside the ring and his decisions, voting casting, was only issued if both judges disagree.

Elsewhere in the UK, the judge was the only arbiter and it was his choice whether to get to the ring or not. So much has changed in 113 years, but many are still the same.