It has always been discussed who was the best of the two pre -war world champions in the fly weight: Jimmy Wilde or Benny Lynch? After two early losses as a teenager, Wilde lost only four times in his long career, and each of these failures was against a world -class fighter. He could hit the venomous strength and dominated the flyweight division for seven years. Lynch [pictured] The loser quite regularly in the very early years of his career in 1931–1933, but these defeats taught him a lot and until 1934 he was practically impossible to defeat. His career was harassed by the inability to conveniently attract weight and infamously by drinking. When in 1935 he defeated Jackie Brown for the title of world champion, he looked great, but his demons soon caught up with him, and his career became badly used, and one man, Jimmy Warnock from Belfast, clearly emphasized the shortcomings of the Scots.

Warnock comes from a fight family, because in the 1920s and 1930s there was a fighter cluster with Belfast, including Billy, Freddie and Dave, but Jimmy was by far the best. He began his career, fighting in countless places of Diminutive Hall, and then acting around the city, including in Rialto, Beresford club, Ring Street Thomas, and in the summer, in the open air in Grosvenor Park. In 1935 he became a Bill-Toper in Ulster Hall and Kings Hall, and a year ago the Ring magazine assessed him in the top ten of the world.

After destroying Brown, Lynch fought with three fights outside the titles in his hometown, winning them quite comfortably, and then went to Belfast to meet Warnock in what was another basic competition. The newborn Scot was “on the way”, allegedly earning money, defeating newborn ejaculation. In Kings Hall, in front of a crowd of 12,000 people, including the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and most of his office, he received a great shock when Warnock withdrew him in a sensational fight. BN informed that “in the fighting Melees Warnock never had something to learn from Lynch, who said that the Irish star could have a high speed and body at a high speed, while ignoring the hit of the master. Lynch was equipped and thrown by a boy whose versatile equipment was better.” Whether Lynch’s problems with weight turned out to be a factor in this competition is unknown, but because the match was made with four pounds above the flying weight limit, it should not be the main factor. The fact is that Lynch was simply worse at night.

Two men met again the following year at Parkhead, the Glasgow Celtic Football Club house, in a match made for 4 ounces above the flying weight limit. Inevitably Lynch took two pounds of overweight and paid 150 pounds at that time, a huge amount of money. Even with this advantage, he could not master the newborn Irishman. About 20,000 people saw Warnock dominated the world champion at the full distance of the 15 round championships. After an early surprise, when Lynch dressed him during the first minute with pruning right -handing to such an extent, Warnock never looked back, and BN lamented: “Benny’s form was enraged that it was true. Where was the whole active attack in this competition!

Lynch’s story is very sorrowful and despite his splendor, when he was at its best, he ranks second in my book by Jimmy Wilde. As for Jimmy Warnock, his two victories over Lynch were the most vital event of his career. He beat some great fighters and earned a lot of money, but Peter Kane turned out to be his Nemesis. He won 74 of 101 competitions and retired in 1948. He was a great petite scenario.

Today, Glasgow is widely perceived as a spiritual home of Scottish boxing, but in the 1920s, when sport flourished north of the border, Edinburgh was a boxing epideror in the country. This was largely thanks to the ambitions and entrepreneurship of one pioneering promoter – Nat Dresner.

Born in a Jewish family in the middle class in Leith around 1880, Nathaniel Dresner was the son of an importer of the Baltic shoes and pawnshop. NAT started his career in theater management and branched in boxing in 1922 accordingly. His growth in sport was meteoric.

In his first year, as a promoter, Dresner put up a sale at the Waverley Market, the roof fruit and vegetable market at the Edinburgh City Center, each time drawing thousands of viewers. In November, Nat reserved the prevailing world champion of weighty weight, the legendary fighting pee for an exhibition on the market. The fight collapsed, but the program appeared on the headlines. Prince George, Prince Kent, whose ship Royal Navy was abandoned in Port Edgar, was the ring to see local favorites, Alex Ireland and George McKenza, winning clear wins over Billy Mack from Liverpool and Londoner Fred Bullions. Ireland and McKenzie, both managed by Dresner, were to win British titles, and the European Crown Ireland.

January 2, 1923 – less than a year after entering the combat industry – NAT achieved a solemn, almost unthinkable coup in the state of the coup when he issued the first British and European struggle in Scotland; That he was questioned two Scots, there was cherry on the cake. At that time, England – especially London – had a virtual monopoly on master competitions. In the event, in the industrial hall at Annandale Street in Edinburgh, he saw the delicate champion Seaman Hall of Peebs, he saw the pretender Johnny Brown of Hamilton in over 20 rounds, before 12,000 fans. Nat cleverly staged a match just after the Sprint Race race, an athletics event, which attracted tens of thousands of enthusiasts to Edinburgh.

In November 1924, Dresner tempted a great kid Ted Lewis in defense of his British and European welterweight titles in the industrial hall. In the crowd of 20,000 (2000 disappointed slow lately closed) that Scotland Tommy Milligan conducted Teda titles with the 20-Rund win. The program has set a foreign attendance record for Scotland, which I think is still standing.

NAT used every opportunity to pack boxing into a wider audience. Unlike the London National Sport Club, which excluded women from the promotion, Dresner reserved some of the places in the field of rings for exclusive apply by women on all their programs. He also offered the unemployed reduced admission indicator if they produced their “bottom” cards. On the other hand, he willingly accommodated members of the Scottish nobility: Marquis Clydesdale was employed as a constant time in Ringside, and Sir Iain Colquhoun from Luss was MC at the main shows of NAT.

Dresner was also an experienced marketer who understood the value of branding. Judge George Smith, who worked as a program seller in Dresner’s promotions, told the boxing author Brian Donald: “We were all flawlessly dressed by a promoter in white woolen jumpers with the inscription” Nat Dresner “with the inscription and front of bold green letters. Everything was meticulously planned. “

In six low years, Dresner made great progress in this sport and it seemed that it was just beginning, but health intervened badly. Nat died on March 31, 1928, at the age of 48, after a two -year illness. Two -week before his death he left the ill bed to take part in his last promotion, when the versatile British and European title Milligan and Alex Ireland attracted 10,000 fans at Waverley Market. His coat now goes to other promoters, but Dresner’s place was provided in the history of the Scottish ring.

The twins in boxing are quite infrequent, and yet in recent years two pairs, Galaxy and Charlo Brothers, have won the main lanes at the world level. Over 100 years ago, in the States, Mike and Jack Sullivan were world -class operators, with the previous attachment of the world -class weight title in 1907. In Great Britain, there are few successful twins, although on many boxes. In the 1950s and 1960s, two sets of twins are wavy in heavier divisions on the home. Johnny Ould from Bermondsey was a representative of GB on the weights of lithe at the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960. He avoided the final winner, Cassius Clay, due to the happiness of the draw. Johnny was the champion of ABA of this weight in 1959 and twice unsuccessfully boxed the title of the southern area as a professional. His twin brother, Dave, though less successful as an amateur, won the heavyweight title in the southern area in 1964 after defeating Len Hobbs at points at the 10-Runder at Cafe Royal. I remember how many years ago I met them in Leba and although Dave is no longer with us, you can see him in many films, including Długi Good Friday.

Of course, the most notable couple were Henry and Jim Cooper. Henry fought Muhammad Ali twice, and also boxed Floyd Patterson and Ingemar Johansson. Only Tommy Farr, who lit Joe Louis, Max Baer and Jimmy Braddock, can also apply for a distinction between being a British warrior, who in the preceding days became stupid with many titles.

But what about Jim Cooper? His real name is George I, like Dave OFF, had to endure his twin master ABA, as well as an Olympic representative, while his own amateur career was much less successful. While Henry became a home brand in Great Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, few knew about George and his own professional career, and yet he was a very decent hefty weight and was once assessed as the fifth best weight in the country behind his brother, Dick Richardson, Brian London and Joe Erskine.

He made his debut against Dick Richardson George in a professional debut and from the very beginning Jim Cooper was. During the concert in Elderly Harrinringay, Arena from 1954 beat Richardson at points in six rounds after he was dressed twice in an opening round. He came back extremely well to come back from such a needy beginning to win the fight. Henry also became a professional on the same bill, dropping Harry Painter in one round. After winning the next competition in one round at Manor Place Baths, Jim returned to Harringay to be stopped in 55 seconds by Bob Gardner. The reason for this shameful failure was a badly cut eye. This type of injury harasses Jim’s career, as, unfortunately for Henry.

In 1957, Jim had to be in despair, despite winning five of his first seven competitions, he was then battered by Brian London in four rounds, he was disqualified against Albert Finch and lost another three stripes because of the cut -out eye. As a result, in 1958. In 1958. In 1958, when he returned in 1959, it was the same senior story in which he was detained again with cuts against Nigeria, Sammy Langford. In the sixties he fought back to the fight against the victory over Johnny Prescott, Ray Shiel and Peter Bates.

Jim was never as good as his brother, but he was a very talented hefty weight at a time when the division was affluent in home talent and deserves well to emerge from the shadows and remember independently.