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Jack London had to move around the great crisis and World War II before the British title shot came

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Reading the recent death of Brian London, I was reminded of his father, Jacek, and I was struck by how special achievement was for my father and son to keep the British heavyweight title only 13 years. However, their career paths could not be more different. Brian took three years to win the British crown in his 24th fight. After losing the title, he had the opportunity to recover it, two European title and two shots in the world crown. For his father there was only one shot in British Honors and it took 13 years and 121 fights for his achievement.

Jack turned to Pro in July 1931, at the age of 18, to complement his work as a truck driver. It was the era of a great crisis, when 20 percent of the insured labor force was unemployed, and the men in the queue and literally fought for tickets for their daily work to aid feed their families. But pro boxing developed. The fights were staged with stunning frequencies in combat halls, public baths, ice rinks and other improvised stages throughout the country. It is not surprising that these boxers fought as often as possible, many of them in a low time against more experienced men.

Carefully selected entries simply did not exist, and this is reflected in Jacek’s fight. In the first month he had four fights as a professional, and in his eyes 29 in the first year. There were many losses in his early book, but he studied fighting through the fight. He went down to second place with experienced performers, such as Daniels, Jack Casey, Charlie Smith, Len Johnson, Ben Foord and the world -class Larry Bains. But he benefited from these experiences and avenged losses in Casey, Smith and profits.

At the end of the 1930s, London was a very improved warrior and most of the time. In 1936 he defeated two good Americans in Roy Lazer (who defeated Jersey Joe Walcott the following year) and very involved in both Walker. Jack also went on a distance with the former world king Tommy Loughran, who was too clever for him. But Jack put up the game and did it similarly in the following year, when he lost points with a immense future double contender to the title of the world, Buddha Baer, ​​brother of the world leaves Max.

Jack fought towards a crack in the British heavyweight title, but the outbreak of war seriously hindered his ring activity and only September 1944 had a chance. London [inset]Until then, a veteran 31 from Łyse, 31 years, faced the 25-year-old star of Rising Freddie Mills (the master’s featherlight) for a free crown of heavyweight. Despite the fact that he is 36 pounds lighter than London, Mills overtook him three years earlier. In the fight, the return divergence was even greater – stunning 43 pounds!

Watching a pair that devotes himself to the Newsreel clip on YouTube, a huge difference in weight is not obvious, because phenomenally powerful Freddie looks like he learns Jacek almost on equal conditions. It was not a fight for lovers of sweet science, but the crowd got money that is worth watching how these two gladiators went to the skin for 15 rounds, after which London won the decision, and the British titles and the Empire, just to lose them 10 months later, 10 months later, 10 months later. Bruce Woodcock.

Fight the fans whose memories, dating back to 1960, will probably meet Jacek best for his role in the infamous fight in Porthcawl, when tension after the ugly fight between Brian London and Dick Richardson caused that even uglier scenes when a massive fight broke out, and his older brother (and colleague professional) Jack Jnr and Jack Snr proved that he could aid in Samowners as a sanction. The material of this is also available on YouTube and is worth seeing.

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The first 10 opponents of future heavyweight masters

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  1. Lionel Butler
    The earnest butler passed from losing to the debutant of Riddick Bowe in 1989 to secure the WBC eliminator with Lennox Lewis in 1995. Finally, he gave up in 2010 with a record of 32-17-1 (25).
  2. Howard Smith
    Eight years before getting the WBA belt in 1980, Mike Weaver lost to Smith during his first two professional trips. Howard also fought Earnie Shavers, and its last part was decent 17-2 (10).
  3. Tunney Hunsaker
    Six months before losing more than six rounds with Cassius Clay, Hunsaker survived the ninth round with the former contender for the title of the world, Tom McNeley. He will retire in 1962 with an estimated record of 19-15-1 (10).
  4. James Broad
    The talented man Greensboro had 2-0 when he knocked out the future of WBA Titlist, James “Bonecrusher” Smith in his debut in 1981. He retired in 1993 in 23-10 (15).
  5. Al Malcolm
    Malcolm, who lost to Lennox Lewis in 1989, was a solid professional who could not cross him at the top of the national level. Although he won the Midlands Area Pas, he shortened Gary Mason, Hughroy Currie, Noel Quarless and Michael Murray.
  6. Don Waldham
    Troster in the third round with George Foreman in 1969, Waldham managed to pass longer than many future enemies of Slugger in ponderous weight. Waldham, 5-5-2, did not fight again.
  7. Woody Goss
    Goss was detained in the round of opening by Joe Frazier in 1965, when he abandoned his future king. He got involved in two fights with a noteworthy difficult, Jacek O’halloran before he left in 1969 with a record of 6-5-2 (3).
  8. Lupe Guerra
    The debut opponent of Frank Bruno mixed with a decent company. Guerra, flattened by Substantial Frank in one round in 1982, also fought (and was hit by) Leon Spinks, Tony Tucker and Jerry Quarry.
  9. Rodell Dupree
    After staying four rounds with Larry Holmes in 1973, Dupree was detained by some fighters who would unsuccessfully challenge Larry when he was a champion, like Renaldo Snipes and Randall “Tex” Cobb.
  10. Hector Mercedes
    Mercedes was not much better after he was steam by youthful Mike Tyson in 1985. The only other significant name on his album 1-10 is Paul Poirier, who stopped the Mercedes in two parts.

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Mike Milligan, a man behind the scenes of one of the most colorful eras in British boxing

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Every solemn boxing ephemeral collector has repeatedly seen the name Mike Milligan on British programs and hands in the 1930s to the 1960s. At various times he was a professional boxer, trainer, second, whip and matchmaker. Although his own rings career was miniature and unusual, he was present in other roles for many vast British fights.

Born in London East End in 1908, his Boxing news The obituary states that his real name is Mark Vezan. However, I cannot find a list of this name in official birth or death indexes, so it’s probably wrong. At the age of 15, Milligan joined the Victoria Working Boys boys club in Whitechapel, where the British and European master Harry Mason had his first boxing lessons. At the age of 16, Mike changed his professional, debuting in the notable Premierland, where he won the prince’s sum of 17s 6d (88 pence) for six -handed. He had a few more fights before he turned to the training and made contact with Kingpin Emerging End End Kingpin, Johnny Sharpe. Johnny set Mike for his gym “45” on Mile End Road. Two early Milligan students are Moe Moss and Kid Farlo, both of which he gave Sharpe to manage and became leading professionals. Others Mike trained at 45 gyms, to Jack Hyams, Archie Sexton, Laurie and Sid Raiteri and Billy Mack.

After a few years with Sharpe Milligan, he went to work for Joe Morris, a manager of such stars as Teddy Baldock and Dick Corbett. Mike still worked for Morris in 1934, when Joe, supported by a petite syndicate, bought the lease of an vintage church on Devonshire, Hackney Street, transforming him into a boxing room. The Devonshire club, as it was called, coped with us, prompting Morris and other investors to sell his future promotional Supremo (but then little known) Jacek Solomon. Milligan stopped at Devonshire and worked as an assistant to “home” and Jacek until 1940, when this place was blurred by the Luftwaffe bomb.

In this miniature time, Devonshire became the leading petite hall of the eastern London. It was during this spell that Mike, who had a gift to detect talent, discovered his greatest discovery of his fists. Milligan took the future British featherlight champion Eric Boon [pictured above right with Milligan] Under his wing after he saw him as a 15-year-old on the account of the Devonshire club. Mike trained Eric and was a key impact in the early years, traveling with him wherever he fought.

In 1940, Milligan joined the army as a shooter in Ra, and also served as an instructor entitled He was annulled from the army after an injury at the site of the weapon and spent six months in the hospital. From there, he returned to work as a whip for Salomons and many other promoters, and became a lasting element of what is on a wonderful pregnancy on the shelf, a place outside, located in a crumbling brick and wavy iron walls. From 1951, Mike worked as a match in places such as Mil End Arena and Epsom Baths, and for many years he was a member of the South Council of the region.

“A lively personality with a pleasant way and enthusiasm for boxing, which radiates positively from him,” was like one newspaper described him in 1940. And this enthusiasm for the game has never decreased. “Mike worked as a bookmaker, but boxing was his life,” noted the obituary in boxes in 1964. “He ate, drank and slept boxing … he rarely left the program, vast or petite.”

The sudden death of Milligan, at the age of 56, shocked the British brotherhood of the fight. Many leading boxing characters – among them Salomons, Sharpe and Benny Huntman – were at his funeral in Rainham in Essex to respect a man who left his marks behind the scenes in one of the most colorful eras of British boxing.

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On this day: an everlasted kalambay Sumbay hand Iran Barkley boxing lesson

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Axis Kalambay at PTS 15 Iran Barkley
Octabar 23 1987; Palazzo dello Sport, Livorno, Italy
Kalambay’s Sumbay is often overlooked when historians call the best medium weights in the era of post-Marvin Hagler. But when someone thinks that Kalambay defeated Herola Graham (twice), Mike McCallum, Steve Collins and Iran Barkley, it is clear that he should not. The Italian silky idol was Muhammad Ali and against the free, gritty and strenuous (and let’s not forget, very good) Barkley, Kalambay showed his extensive repertoire in the last fight for the title WBA Middle Wweight to plan 15 rounds. More educational than exhilarating, Kalambay shows exactly why it was very arduous to beat to raise a free belt.

Do you know? The title of WBA was deprived of Hagler after he signed a contract for the fight with Sugar Ray Leonard instead of a compulsory pretender, Herol Graham. Kalambay upset Graham in the fight for the title of EBU – which was a crazy fight for a “bomber”, in retrospect – to get a shot in a free crown.

Watch out for: The operate of a left stabbaya is arduous to determine. At the end of the fight, Barkley is bruised, bloody and well beaten.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmmykev8GSE

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