Boxing History
An unusual return that made the oldest Olympic champion Dick Gunna
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2 months agoon

Sata of the seventies were a fantastic era for domestic boxing, but, to be forthright, they were not so good for fashion (I know, I was there). It seems that they have just left the Bond Street boutique, we can see the brothers Chris and Kevin Finnegan look particularly elegant. Between them and much more reasonably dressed is their amateur trainer, Dick Gunn. There is probably not many now who remembers Dick, but as a coach in Hayes BC, where the Finnegan brothers put their mark for the first time, he was a first -class coach. Dick had one professional duel, in Rochester Casino in 1949, and because it did not go well for him, he decided to concentrate his energy in the gym, and that he did it because he was largely responsible for Chris Finnegan, he won gold at the 1968 Olympics.
Dick could draw on his family experiences when it comes to the Olympic Games, because he was a descendant of the oldest boxing master in the history of Master and three -time featherweight master ABA, a man of the same name, Dick Gunna. Ancient Dick won ABA titles in the following years between 1894 and 1896 during boxing for Lynn BC. It wasn’t until 12 years later, in 1908, he won gold at the Olympic Games in London with the same weight. Until then, he was 37 years senior and was withdrawn from the ring for many years.
He was one of the members of the founder Lynn and what club turned out to be. Matt Wells, Dave McCleave, Terry Waller, Billy Wells, Billy Knight, Gary Davidson and Henry Akinwande are among the outstanding ones who learned trading in the club. He won the first of his ABA titles in 1894, when the boxing took place at Ancient Queens Hall at Langham Street, Westminster. His colleague from the club Percy Jones took the title of Bantamweight this year, and until 1896 each of them managed to win the hat-trick of ABA titles at their weights, and Lynn really left its trail. In the real amateur sporting spirit of those times and after he dominated the featherweight division over these three years, Dick – at the age of only 25 – withdrew from the ring to give other boxers a chance to win the amateur championships. He really believed that sports was not good so that one man would not win the same title, so he became an administrator, helping in various ways in his beloved club.
In 1904 he moved to Gainsford BC, where he often took part in exhibition competitions. One of them took place at the National Sporting Club, when he took over three rounds with the British featherweight champion, the Great Jim Driscoll. When the 1908 Olympics were announced in London, Dick could not resist the idea of returning so that he could take part. The whole generation of youthful people, equally determined to create a team, probably had no idea about his skills and achievements, because Dick was about 15 years older than most of them.
He trained persistently in Gainsford and created a team with four other British participants among 14 fields. He sent the Frenchman in the opening competition, and then defeated the prevailing champion Abb Tom Ringer, another Lynn Man, in the second.
After receiving a farewell in the initial round, these two victories were enough to put him in the final in which he met Charley Morris from the polytechnic BC. Ancient Dick knew too much for his younger opponent and in patted him for three rounds to take gold.
Then Dick became an amateur judge for many years before he finally bowed as time rates. In this character he appeared at another London Olympic Games, in 1948 Dick became the vice president of ABA before his death in 1961, at the age of 90. Each Dick Gunn has made a significant contribution to the Olympic boxing in Great Britain.
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Boxing History
The Green Man: The Pub/Boxing Gym, which attracted Tommy Farr, David Bowie and more
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Blackheath-Urocza, a wealthy, relatively deciduous part of the south-eastern London-does not have obvious boxing ties. From sport, he is best known as a starting point in the London marathon and for the apartment of the world’s oldest open rugby club. But return 60 to 90 years, and the surrounding area had a prosperous boxing gym, popular among the best characters of this sport.
The green man was a pub on Blackheath Hill with boxeria above him. He shot in importance as a boxing plant in 1937, when two world warriors, Great Britain Tommy Farr And America Petey Sarron decided to train there. The British weighty title Farr was preparing for Showdown on April 15 with Max Baer, who would ultimately lead him to a heavyweight title defining the career with Joe Louis four months later. The prevailing champion of the world featherweight, Sarron, was preparing to fight with the same Survivist-first in this country-a former British Lightweight King Harry Mizler.
At the beginning of April Boxing news The columnist “The Watcher” visited Green Man Gym, and then using the boxing manager Walter Daya and the seriously striking seafarer Jim Lawlor to see Train Farr and Sarron. The banner above the door proclaiming “Tommy Farr and Petey Sarron Tround here” told him that he was in the right place. However, he arrived too overdue to see how the warriors were working and said that Farr was changing after his session.
“Tommy welcomed me warmly when I regretted that I was too overdue. Jim Lawlor was at hand and he welcomed me a lot, invited me to a cup of tea, and I was very worried about showing me. The wardrobe was equipped with a shower bath, rubbing the table and everything. Large windows overlooked Blackheath and said that here was the perfect place to prepare here. to the competition, because such a wonderful open space – and it could be high – and it could be up – and it could be up.
“Tommy finished the dressing, and then I was taken over to junior high school. A full -size and properly staged ring was erected in a roomy and well -lit room, while ordinary amenities necessary for training had a desire for training. The place was vast enough to issue the program, and Lawlor told me that they introduced several amateur shows.
“The presence of Tommy Farr and Petey Sarron will undoubtedly bring them a lot of publicity and recommendations, because in addition to the fact that the British champion was very enthusiastically focused on it, later I learned from Jimmy Erwin, the world champion manager that he was looking at all training exercises in the south of England, not finding a place that suited him better.”
In 1939, Jock McAVoy trained at Green Man-Swoim with his first training in London-his last fight with Len Harvey’s rival, in a program that set a attendance record in Great Britain over 90,000. Seventeen years later the Green Man’s gym was still busy when Dick Richardson prepared for his clash of December 1956 Nino Valdes.
In the 1960s, the pub became a popular place of music where Paul Simon, Manfred Mann, Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott performed. In 1963, 16-year-old David Bowie played there with his first professional band The Konrads. At this memorable concert of Bowie, until then, the saxophonist entered as the main singer, when the band’s frontman cut his foot on a broken glass in the cloakroom in a pub. Then Bowie took the position of the singer. Unfortunately, for sentimental fans of boxing or music, in 1970 a green man was demolished. Today, there is an indefinite block of flats in its place.
Boxing History
Version – Marco Antonio Barrera wins a furious and electrifying rubber match over Erik Morales
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Marco Antonio Barrera in MD 12 Erik Morales
November 27, 2004; MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV
Mexican warriors Barrera and Morales ended their epic trilogy in a properly urgent style, creating another unforgettable war. Entering in the start, in the case of the Super Feather WBC Morales belt, the series stood with one winner per item. Morales won the initial meeting in Super-Bantam in 2000, and Barrera secured the creation of a rematch in 2002 in a featherweight-the decisions were questioned. Accordingly, the verdict in the rubber match also caused a debate. As in the previous two meetings, bitter enemies got involved in a furious fight, and the electrifying 11 round turned out to be particularly cruel. Ultimately, Barrera went to the top and adapted Morales’s achievement, becoming the three world letter.
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