“Malta Championships” may seem like a unlikely slogan of a fight on a macula of a wasteland at the eastern end of London between Mancunian and Cockney. Nevertheless it was a description A Boxing news The writer used in 1953, looking back at the fight, which took place last year at the Mile End Arena between the featherweight prospects Skinkiss and Sammy Bonnici. Although the conversation about the championships was a hyperbola, both had connections with Malta, who was then a British colony.
Skinkiss was born in Bury in 1931, and two years later he moved to Malta, where his father, a British soldier, published. The family lived there for a decade, leaving the country torn torn to the war in 1943. Then they spent four years in South Africa, but returned to Great Britain and settled in Manchester in 1947. Skinkiss soon joined the Lily Lane boxing club. He won the youth titles for three years, and in 1950 he won the crown in the northern featherweight of the north. After losing in the ABA semi -final in 1950 to this year, Peter Brander, the state decided to change the codes.
Skinkiss [pictured above] I turned around in March 1951 under Jacek Bates, and he had 20 fights in his first year as a professional, winning 15, losing three and attracting two against solid opposition. He really scored in his second London competition, when Ko’d Sidcup from Charlie Tucker Sidcupa in three in West Ham Baths in front of the live television audience live in February 1952. “The next morning his name was on the lips of every fight of the fight,” Ron Olver Bn remembered. At that time, however, the state lost to Teddy Peckham, Johnny Butterworth and Freddie King. He says a lot about the competitiveness of the era – and focus on science, not to preserve unbeaten records – that he was still considered a decent perspective.
On the other hand, the Bonnici was born in the capital of Malta, Valletta, in 1930 and came to Great Britain as a child, the family settled in Stepney, Eastern London. His first boxing taste was during national service and reached the final of the 1950 Army Championships. In July 1951, he turned to professionals with Jim Pettengell and had 16 matches in the first year, starting with mixed success, but finding his form in early 1952 with wins over good people, such as Jackie Turpin, Johnny Mollo and Freddie Hicks.
Boxing news Bonnici vs Skinkiss Eight-Rounder, dedicated to almost the full side, which took place on July 22, 1952, our reporter writes colorfully: “On the night, which was sizzling enough and stuffy for Spain, the droughty Tieless shirt was sweating, and he decided and fell in love and supported his skills and science, he ever went to skills and science. Master. “
The Bonnici was Matador and Skinkiss the Bull. From the very beginning, Londoner put in a boxing class when a man in Manchester was constantly bored, knowing from the stage halfway that he needed a knockout. In the last round he was in trouble, but the clever Stepney Lad remained on his feet to receive the verdict.
The Bonnici strengthened his superiority, again beating Skinkiss four months later. After her career, Stan reached the trajectory down. Sammy was still impressed by defeating the highest innovators, such as Teddy Peckham, Allan Tanner, Boswell St Louis, South African master Alby Tissong and British pretenders Dai Davies and Bobby Boland. But the bonnites had to feel as if he was walking in the water. Although he was a British citizen, he could not box the British title because he was born abroad. Sammy spent the last two years of his career in Australia. He liked this place so much, he stayed there and married the Australian.
“Being Southpaw and a contractor,” reflected Ron Olver, “Sammy was not a cup of tea at the ticket office. But his record shows that he defeated one of the best. He wonders what could happen, allowed him to fight for the British title.”
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