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Liverpool vs Manchester – great amateur boxing competition

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Robbie Davies of Liverpool

Ordinary readers of this column will know that I have a weakness for amateur boxing, especially for the Golden Age of Sport in Great Britain, the 1950s to the 1980s, when amateur boxing was the most competitive and the standard was so high. They will also know that I regret the changes introduced to the ABA structure, and aged regional competitions lose their identity to a gigantic extent. London divisions, which I wrote about in June 2019, were very hard to win, and the same applies to the Northwestern Poviat Championships.

At that time, the northwestern poviats were divided into two regions, east and west. This meant that the boys from Liverpool, in the western area, began to compete directly with those from Manchester, in the eastern area. It would be hard to find two English cities that have a greater competition, which was reflected in boxing, when the appropriate masters from two cities often met in the north-west finals. Of course, there were many other boxers from various parts of Cheshire and Lancashire, who won these finals, including Frankie Taylor (Lancaster), George and Ray Gilbody (St Helens), Kelvin Travis (Oldham) and Steve Hill (Blackpool), but boys from two cities dealing with the dominance of this event.

The championships were often held at the Liverpool stadium and in Belle Vue in Manchester, with Preston Guildhall and Kirkby Sports Center, as well as the list of masters sounds like who to who to who of British Greats – John ContehAlan Rudkin, Joey Singleton, George Turpin, Terry Wenton, John Lynch and Robbie Davies from Merseyside and Phil Martin, Ray Shiel, Alan Tottoh, Kenny Webber, Eddie Copeland and Lee Hartshorn from Cotton City.

Let’s go back to one of these championships and try this opportunity. On March 15, 1973, the championships were held at the Liverpool stadium before a huge crowd of almost four thousand. In the heavyweight Les McGowan from Speke, which was at that time rated first in Great Britain, he had to withdraw due to a back injury. This opened the door of Paul Sykes, a boy Wakefield, who recently enlisted to Liverpool Club, Golden Gloves ABC. Sykes destroyed the former master of NW, Terry Connor, in two rounds to win the title of West and did a similar job at 19-year-old Barry Peacock in Manchester (Cavendish ABC) to win the title. Finally, he lost to Garfield Mcewan in the ABA semi -final, and Mcewan won the title of ABA this year before he became a decent professional.

Two other warriors from Liverpool, Joe Lally and Robbie Davies, also won their titles in a welterweight and lightweight weight, respectively. Both were great punchers, and Davies was particularly destructive when he sent another Mancunian from the Cavendish club, Carlton Lyons, for one round. Carl Speare, who as a professional fought with Larry Paul, Billy Knight and Maurice Hope, won his only championships of NW, via Outhustling Terry Dolan (BDS) during full course, and George Gilbody, one of the greatest amateurs in this era, won in Bantamweight through Walker, Keith Howard (Ardwick).

Another unique talent, Southpaw John Lynch from Kensington, won in a featherweight, defeating Paul Dykes (Brookdale Park), and Tony Carroll and Steve Hill were outstanding winners in featherlight and lightweight, respectively. Among these names there were many future specialists and everyone went through a hard series of competitions to become a northwestern champion in a hard era. From 1957, two teams from the eastern and western areas competed for Jacek M. Peel’s memorial trophy, awarded the area, which had the most winners, and Liverpool Lads never lost him. In 1973, they triumphed nine duels to one, but only one of their representatives, John Lynch, won this year by ABA.

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10 most renowned fights by Jacek Dempsey

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Jack Dempsey


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  1. Gene Tunney II (September 1927)
    After dropping Tunney in the seventh round, Dempsey initially failed to go to a neutral angle, which means that the judge was unable to start the number for five seconds. Tunney got up on the official number of “nine”, but unofficially fell for 14 seconds. Tunney would triumph with a decision, and the long number was remembered as one of the most controversial moments in the history of boxing.
  2. Georges Carpentier (July 1921)
    Near between Dempsey and Carpentier is renowned for generating the first gate in sport for a million dollars. Dempsey Ko’d Carpentier in the fourth round.
  3. Luis Firo (sister 1923)
    Dempsey vs Firpo is rightly considered one of the most full struggles of all time, despite lasting less than four minutes. Firpo remained five times in the opening round, but he gathered to throw Dempsey through the ropes and the ring. In the second, Dempsey conjured up a blow to gain victory.
  4. Jess Willard (July 1919)
    Dempsey also scored seven knocking down in the first round, when he dethroned Willard to become the world king of heavyweight. The wild coronation was completed when Willard failed to be fourth.
  5. Gene Tunney I (September 1926)
    In his first fight with Tunney, Dempsey lost the world heavyweight title in points before over 120,000.
  6. Jack Sharkey (Jul 1927)
    Between the two losses of Dempsey with Tunney was scintiling in the seventh round of the knockout of his favorite Betting Sharkey, who later complained that the final shot was preceded by a low blow.
  7. Tommy Gibbons (July 1923)
    The lonely Gibbons fight was not particularly unforgettable – Dempsey won a relatively unlucky competition on the results cards – but she had mutilating consequences for Guest Shelby, Montana, which was financially ruined after extreme excessive investment.
  8. Bill Brennan II (December 1920)
    Dempsey got involved in a cruel war with an aged rival Brennan, about which he apparently had bonds with the Al Capone gangster. Dempsey won through the 12th round of KO.
  9. Billy Mulke III (September 1920)
    In the first defense of his world crown, Dempsey sent a friend of the enemy in the third round. The ladies suffered from severe kidney disease, which would be fatal.
  10. Fred Fulton (July 1918)
    Opposing DDSMakers, Dempsey instituted as the most vital pretender to heavyweight in the world, rejecting Fulton after just 23 seconds.

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Was Dai Dollings the most influential British coach in history?

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Dai Dollings

What to do Gene TunneyAl Brown, Jimmy McLarnin, Jack Britton, Mike Mctigue, Ted Kid Lewis and Johnny Dundee have in common? Of course: they were all world champions in the pre -war era. Less obvious answer: everyone was trained at some time by Dolls Welshman Dai.

Dollings, who trained masters, swimmers, wrestlers and swingers with the Indian club before focusing on boxers, is one of the largest trainers ever produced. It can be said that his influence extends, at least diagonally, to the contemporary era and Roberto Duran, but today Lalling is practically unknown.

Driving from Swanse, in his youth Dai was a warrior from a certain reputation, and he was also a competing champion. As a boxing trainer, his devotion went beyond training and corner work. He also cooked for his people and was a masseur expert. His first great successes as a coach came with Tom Thomas (winner of the first lane of the medium weight Lonsdale), master of the British featherweight master Spike Robson, youthful Josephu Joseph, Digger Stanley Stanley and the massive heavyweight king. In 1909, Moir said about the dolls: “I don’t think I could find a better trainer than Dai, and he knows me exactly.”

This knowledge of the warrior was one of Dai’s successes. In February 1911 he trained Matt Wells for his nervous victory over Freddie Welsh for British and European delicate awards. Wells and Dollings soon went to America to America, and Dai led his fee through a glorious state campaign, which covered the victory over the prevailing world champion in the featherweight world weight Abe Atell.

But did the dolls just frying in the print glory of Wells? Apparently not. In a letter to Boxing news Posted during the American journey, Wells said: “There is one thing that Wales should be proud of, and this means that they have the best coach in the world in Dai Dollings. It was that allowed me to defeat Freddie Welsh … Dai and I are like brothers. We’re never a look … Americans think that Dai is the best trainer.”

After returning from the USA, Dai continued training fighters in Great Britain, usually at Black Bull Pub-Cum-Cum-Gym in Whenstone. In 1913, he prepared Ted Kid Lewis for his British title of featherweight over Alex Lambert.

But Dai decided to move to America. He settled in Recent York to become a resident of the Grum Grum coach at 116th Street and Eighth Avenue, then a leading gymnasium in the city. There he found a vivid youthful man who wanted to learn from one of the best. This youthful man was the future coach of Hall of Fame, Ray Arcel, who consumed the knowledge of dolls with balmy enthusiasm.

Dai was impressed by the Arcel of the meaning of the study of the nuances of various styles of the warrior. He also taught Ray to treat every boxer who trained as an individual. “Every youthful man who came to me made full study of his personal habits, his temperament,” said Arcel later. “No two people are similar. What you say to one colleague could not lend a hand another guy.”

From Recent York, Dai trained such as Bill Brennan, Jack Britton, Dave Shade, Mike McTigue, Jimmy McLarnin, Johnny Dundee, Harry Wills I, according to some sources, Gene Tunney. When the brilliant Bantamweight Al Brown came to the city from Panama, according to Biographer Brown, Jose Corpas, Dollings told his style, pushing Al from right joy to one of the perfect left stick and ballet work built around the perfect left and ballet work, which became his personal brand.

But perhaps Dai’s greatest heritage came to convey his philosophy and Arcela techniques. Ray used these methods or their variety to direct the next generations of boxers, so that glory as a trainer and Conerman. Jack Kid Berg, Billy Soose, Ezzard Charles, Tony depends, Roberto Duran and Larry Holmes used at least to some extent from Dollings, according to the adopted and adapted by Arcel.

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Ear fight. When Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield

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Mike Tyson

Commentator Sky Ian Darke was in Las Vegas in June 1997, unaware that Mike Tyson was on the edge of the destruction of his reputation forever. Below is his journal of events, which ended with the most infamous disqualification in the history of boxing.

Sunday, June 22, 1997

I don’t remember who said Las Vegas makes Blackpool look like Venice, but they were not wrong. After 14 hours of flying Glenn McCrora and I came to discover that Elderly Sin City in the desert fell to the novel depth without taste. Our hotel opposite MGM had an electric chair, where you can pay 2 USD for “fried live”. The loud mountain queue is located just outside the bedroom window. Try and don’t go as usual to get to the west coast, fighting for sleep as overdue as possible. You still wake up in the middle of the night and fall asleep in the afternoons.

Monday, June 23, 1997

Mission Impossible – get one interview with Mike Tyson. Over the years, repeated efforts to go through the official channels have proved hopeless. The only hope is him when Golden Gloves Gym leaves after training. We come to find closed doors and ordinary gloomy difficult to guard. Rory Holloway, co -author of Tyson, Rory Holloway. We ask if Mike will speak on British television because he has so many fans there. GROVELING helps – does it do it? “I don’t ask him,” Holloway stops.

“But you have no objection if it’s okay?”

“To you, what you do. I can’t stop him.”

You are gathering that seeing Tyson is like an attempt to organize an audience with the Pope. In the end it emerges, it looks gloomy. “Hi Mike, I wonder if you could spend three minutes on Sky Sports from Great Britain?”

“I don’t know about three minutes,” he will pay back. You think we asked him to surpass nine-o’clock-new. And that’s how we throw the camera. “Interview” is monosylbical. The truth is that Tyson hates the media. He is usually contemptuous and disregarded even the most reasonable and polite investigation. The camp here has an impenetrable mentality – some may say that persecution.

Tuesday, June 24, 1997

Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield They are completely different animals in the same jungle. Evander is helpful and available as Mike Nie -SPRING. Holyfield works in the ring set up in a media tent and does not leave until everyone who wants to talk to him did not do it. The man is a pure class, it is clear that Tyson still does not keep any terror for him. Indeed, many of us wonder if this is the opposite after the beating Tyson took care of the first fight.

Wednesday, June 25, 1997

Press conferences are one of the huge sets of every week of fighting in Vegas. There are 1,500 media in the city. Mike Marley, director of Don King advertising, says that for all the accreditation of 10 was reversed. The Russians are here, and broadcasters in three Chinese dialects. As usual, Glen McCrory and Bob Mee have a lottery about how long Don King will take to present everyone. The record is 53 minutes on Akinwande-Welch. This time Don holds it up to 18 minutes. According to his standards, this is almost “without comment”. The most significant most significant stock exchanges between Christa Martin, a women’s boxing star and the only women who defeated her, Andrea Deshong. Deshong: “I will give you a boxing lesson.” Martin: “It’s nice to see you in a dress, you looked like women for the first time. I’m going to run shoes to chase you faster than you’ve ever been prosecuted … except your girlfriend!” There are more. Tyson bored and placid Holyfield are tamed in comparison. Then the coach of Lennox Lewis, Manna Steward, says that Holyfield seems “too relaxed and the edges are missing.” Eddie Futch says that after seeing the warriors this week he changed his mind and chooses Tyson.

Thursday, June 26, 1997

Weighting. This fight is so great that ESPN, All Sports Channel, show it live. Tyson is his lightest than prison- but he looks older, his skin looks gloss. Holyfield is his heaviest in history. It seems that Tyson suggests his look when they pose for photos, significant? Later, the Nevada Commission is taking place in front of the world media to hear the protest of the Tyson camp about the judge Mitch Halpern. Can you imagine how the British boxing control council does it? Manager Tyson, John Horne, believes that Tyson will be “physiologically affected”, having the same man who stopped him last time. Is this a tip on the mental state of Tyson? If he is worried about the same director, how does he feel about the same opponent? Elderly Tyson would only worry if the judge could not count until 10. Quite rightly, the commission throws out protests 4-1.

Friday, June 27, 1997

Christmas Eve. I am not sleeping at the news that Halpern has subsided. The Tyson camp has its own, Halpern was placed in an impossible position in which he would certainly have to subconsciously bend back to be candid to Tyson. Mills Lane is developed to “get”. He couldn’t know much what central role he was supposed to play in the drama. The survey of the best American boxing writers gives Tyson only six votes for 23. However, bookmakers still have Holyfield at the age of 13-8 years. This may be the first registered instance of generosity from the layers of Vegas opportunities.

Saturday, June 28, 1997

Fight. Boxing ability to dream of some novel sensational endings is inexhaustible. Both Glenn McCrora and I are terrified by the outraged behavior of Tyson. The words “coward” and “Łobuz” come to mind. Who would have thought Tyson would lean to make a “real offer” for a “real meal”? There is no doubt that Holyfield intends to defeat him, Tyson knew about it- so he gave up, hoping that he would be able to demand an ambiguous result. In my opinion, he threw out all claims that can be considered one of the best massive in history. As Glenn said on the air: “Cus d’Amato would turn in the grave.” Then we are caught in Stampeded to escape the reported shootings at the MGM casino. What a night!

Sunday, June 29, 1997

American recipients had a field night: “Bite of the century”, “Fight of the Ear” and so on. We’re going home at dawn. Sky Sports is again on Monday evening … at York Hall, Bethnal Green. It’s a long way from Vegas …

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