This is the latest in the occasional series about the heavyweight champions of the world and their visits to Great Britain. In previous articles I wrote about Primo Carner and Langford himself, and this week I will look at Jacek Johnson and his British concert tour of 1908. Jackjohnson came to Great Britain on Monday, April 27 from the States, when the German steamer, Kronprinz Wilhelm, did in Plymouth. He was accompanied by his manager, Fitzpatrick himself, and two men immediately followed the train from Plymouth to the Paddington station in London, checked in at the Adelphi Hotel, and in the evening he visited the British Botker, in the field of eight circles, to see 20 rounds.

Johnson was in Great Britain to hunt Tommy Burns, also visiting London, to force him to defend the title, which, as we know, took place in Sydney eight months later. Two men exchanged words in Sporting Press and Burns, who stayed in Jacek’s Castle, in a pub in Hampstead, immediately published 1000 pounds from The Sporting Life, stating that if the Johnson camp was fitting to this amount, the fight was turned on. Fitzpatrick opposed the terms for which Burns insisted on the proposed match and refused to cover money. Johnson challenged the shooting moir, but it was rejected when Moir drew a color line and refused to meet the American.

Johnson spent the majority of this summer, appearing in various music rooms in Great Britain, boxing at exhibitions with a wide British heavyweight, including Jewey Smith, Jam Styles and Fred Drummond. In those days it was quite lucrative for the highest level boxers. Then he was tailored to Ben Taylor (Woolwich) to a 20-round competition in Plymouth. Jack trained on a fight at Regent’s Park and at the Junior High School at the National Sporting Club. He left the Waterloo station on July 30 to go to Plymouth for a fight, which was to take place the next day in Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Mill Street. A vast contingent of fans welcomed him in the city of Devon, which at that time was the center of the fight of the great importance.

The competition, as you can expect, turned out to be one -sided when Johnson defeated Taylor with ease, raising him 11 times in front of a judge called Halt in the eighth round. After the duel, Johnson praised Taylor at his break, stating that he never met a player during his entire career. Later that night at the Mount Pleasant Hotel gathered at the Mount Pleasant Hotel, near the cosmopolitan, where Taylor founded his training camp, and Jack appeared to give Taylor again congratulations to Taylor for organizing such a good competition.

Johnson took part in a series of exhibitions in Dublin, and then in Bristol, where he participated in the Bristol City Vs Everton football match in Ashton Gate – his first experience in sport. Until September 7, he returned to London and announced that in October he was adapted to Box Mike Schreck at the National Sporting Club. On September 14, Schreck manager Jimmy Kelly was announced that the fight was not turned off because Schreck could not be relied to get to a decent condition for the fight.

Together with Burns in Australia, Johnson remained high and desiccated, without a significant fight, so the National Sports Club organized a competition against Sam Langford, which took place at the club on November 9. What would be a coup d’état – a match between the two best bulky scales in the world – but unfortunately this did not happen. On Monday, September 21, Johnson left the Charing Cross Station on the planned Łódź train at 13.20 to France to start a long journey to Australia, where he finally met and defeated Tommy Burns three months later.

In this contemporary era 15-plus, the British title does not wear elderly size. For some youthful perspectives, protecting the British crown is almost an election exercise-perceived as a plain stone on the way to the tilt on World Honors

When there was only eight weights and one world champion, the British crown was the peak of realistic ambitions for most boxers in this country. To win, you had to be good – especially if you had a misfortune to be in the division arranged. Albert Finch from Croydon was on this untruthful when he entered professionals as an average weight in the 1940s.

Born on May 16, 1926, the earliest fights of Albert were on the makeshift ring in the back of George Tavern in the Elderly Town of Croydon. As an amateur he won 63 of 68, chose the title of boys’ club in London, as well as the titles of London and South ABA. He lost in the semi -finals of the medium weight of the ABA championship in 1945 with Faul for this year’s winner Bob Parker.

Albert turned to Pro in August and in the next few years he accumulated a long record of mainly winning points. The impressive silhouette of Finch, the impressive silhouette of Finch – was polished with wavy wooden blocks for the transport and fuels of his father – she denied his boxing style. Skill, endurance and fantastic left stab – which brought him the nickname “The Croydon Woodpecker” – were the features of Albert Finch.

In April 1948, Finch inflicted the first defeat of Pro at Randolph Turpin (then 18-0-1), when he defeated the future world of the middleweight king at Royal Albert Hall. Randolph would suffer only one loss in his next 25 fights, which ended with his historical victory over Sugar Ray Robinson. But it was another Turpin, on which Albert had his goal, older brother of Randolph, Dick.

This year, Dick has gone down in history as the first non-British BBBOFC Era Master, after arranging the Crown of the average weight of Vince Hawkins after raising the archaic “color bar” of the board. Until 1949, the Finch record contained Skalps of most of our leading medium weight. He had 37-5-1, when he finally got a crack in the title as the first contender of Dick’s reign in June this year. Dick kept his British and empire stripes in the fight that Albert won. But for the second time luck for Finch, when in April 1950 he introduced Dick to win both titles, and also stopped him in the third match in July.

However, Finch’s reign was surprisingly compact. In October, Randolph revealed his brother’s failure, as well as his own when Ko’d Albert in five to restore the crown of medium weight to the Turpin family.

Until then, Finch fought for a medium weight. Super-Middle would suit him better, but this division did not exist, so he was obliged to go to massive weight.

He fought three times for the British, massive crown, losing to the three excellent masters in Don Cockell, Alex Bxton and Ron Barton. In 1954, Albert housed Future Empire Titlist Titlist Joe Bygraves, awarding 10 pounds. It was only two years before Bygraves won the title and three before Henry Cooper’s Ko’d in his first defense.

Finch was the favorite sparring partner of Ingemar Johansson, who helped to prepare for the European fight with Cooper in 1957. On the same Bill Bill Albert defeated the twin brother Henry, Jim.

The record of the Finch championships as a professional-month professional reign as a British and empire average in medium weight and only the southern crown as a slight heavy-does not reflect his talents full of justice. Albert (72-21-9) was one of four men who won British titles after World War II, who achieved over 100 professionals. He is in good company. The others are Dick Turpin, Ronnie Clayton and Alex Bxton.

The birth of the ward in the circuitous weight at the turn of the seventies and 80s were a benefit for the boxers too vast, but too miniature to get to the world stage as a massive weight. However, save the thought of countless “Inbetweeners” who overtook the creation of the division and were often forced to face larger, stronger people.

There are many miniature weights from boxing annals that could be argued, it would be world -class if there were a cruiser’s weight in their time. The one whose current weight limit 14. 4lb (200 pounds) would fit into the shirt, was Joe Erskine Cardiff. At 5 feet 11 inches and usually scaling below 200 pounds, Joe was simply too miniature and did not hit demanding enough to take the best in the world in the boxes of beef. But he was good enough to win British and Empire Honors, which was not a mean feat in the era of a competitive age in the country of the 1950s and 60s.

Erskine was born in January 1934 at Cardiff’s Dockland District in Tiger Bay, in Welsh mother and Jamaican. The area had a spirited multicultural community that produced several sports and music stars (the most celebrated singer Shirley Bassey), but was known from her district of red featherlight and gambling.

As a boxer student, Joe won various titles from Victoria Park ABC and was a heavyweight champion by ABA in 1953. He ended a professional in 1954 as a member of the celebrated stable Benny Jacobs and underwent 30 competitions without defeat.

In November 1955 he defeated Henry Cooper in the Eliminator of the British Crown heavyweight and was appointed the best adolescent boxer this year by the boxing writers. In May 1956, Erskine defeated a colleague from Welsh and the future European heavyweight champion Dick Richardson before he faced another Welsh, Johnny Williams, for the British title released by Don Cockella. Joe overtook Williams during an exhausting meeting at the main Cardiff stadium in August 1956 – for the first time the heavyweight crown was questioned by two Welsh.

The sky seemed to be the border of the talented invincible Cardiff boxer, but in his next fight Joe returned to the ground, figuratively and literally. The world Cuban Cuban Nino Valdes was a scourge for our best weights. He finished Cockell, Richardson and Brian London in a schedule, and did the same with Erskine when they met at the Earl court in February 1957 with a stunning knockout in the first round.

His undefeated album disappeared, but his intact faith, Joe again defeated Cooper in the title defense in September and did the same with Joe Bygraves in November to add the crown of the Empire to his title.

Of course, his monuments were now on the European belt kept by the undefeated Swede Inggemar Johansson. They met in February 1958 and Joe fought bravely for 13 rounds before they were pulled out by his corner. Three fights later Johansson took over the world crown of Floyd Patterson, but for Erskine the national control of the championship was to end soon. In the next fight he lost both titles to London.

Joe fought for the next six years and submitted three unsuccessful offers of recovery of titles, losing each time with Cooper’s rival, who took the titles from London and kept them in possession long enough to become the first and only winner of the three lanes Lonsdale straight.

Nevertheless, Erskine has established some great wins in the last few years, defeating Jacek Bodell, Johnny Prescott, Richardson (again), George Chuvalo (though due to disqualification), Up-to-date York Freddie Mack and the future world of the Delicate King Willie Pastano. Joe’s victory over Pastrano will lead manager Willi, Angelo Dundee, to write in his book, I’m just talking about victoryThat the British would be a global download if he had a larger frame and more challenging digging.