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Captivating case Max Smith

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I recently scanned an senior copy of the Ring magazine since April 1974, and my mind was passed by something I forgot. The assessment of weighty delicate this month was replaced by the following: Champion-Bob Foster, 1. John Conteh, 2. Len Hutchins, 3. Tom Bogs, 4. Victor Galindez, 5. Max Smith.

I suspect that five of these names still mean something, even for state-of-the-art fans, but who is at number 5? It is tough to believe that a warrior from the northeast, then a very impossible area with a only handful of professionals, a man managed by Tommy Miller, whose stable contained a long list of journeymen, and a boxer who never got smelling in a British title can be so highly rated among the world élite. BN was not so nice, because at no time in any of their ranking lists Max appeared in the world top ten in boxing, at that time the weekly rival BN, he assessed Max at level 24 at the end of 1973. So what is Nat Loubet saw in Max to evaluate him so much?

Maxa was a service technician in one of the elite units in the country. During service, both Royal Navy and the Combined Services Championships in 1967 and 1968 won as the royal infantry. He was also the champion of ABA in 1967 and had to withdraw from the final of 1968 with a hand injury, leaving Ray Brittle as a master of this year.

With such an excellent amateur pedigree, he was very wanted as a professional, and when he signed a contract with Arthur Boggis’s manager in August 1968, he became the first vigorous soldiers who could professionally hurt for many years. He fought 10 times for Boggis in 1968–70, winning seven and losing three.

After a good start, the loss of losses with Roy John, Dervan Airey and Bunny Johnson was derailed. This last defeat was particularly disappointing because he was knocked out in three rounds in Empire Pool, Wembley, on Undercard of Henry Cooper-Jack Bodell for the title of British heavyweight.

Maxa packed him for a moment, and when he returned, in 1973 with the modern manager, Tommy Miller, was rejuvenated. He won nine competitions in a row and it was these fights that led him to his world assessment. Starting two good victories over space, defeating Harry Scott in five and Ade Ajasco in six, then said Sid Falconer, Graham Sines and Bunny Sterling, within eight rounds. Until now, BN has finished fifth in Great Britain. Then he stopped Falconer in four, then met American Eddie Duncan in the 10-Rund in Belle Vue, Manchester in October 1973. It was a fight that convinced the ring of its quality.

Duncan was no stranger to Great Britain. In September 1972, he became the first man who defeated John Conteh, and also attracted here from Johnny Franham before he overtook Rossendale Banger, Phil Matthews. Max managed Duncan with relative ease, experiencing an early attack to gradually work out his man. BN informed that “the judge of course decided that Smith’s durability exceeded the spectacular but rarer hit in Philadelphians.”

Max continued this victory with the victories of points over Roy John and Bob Tuckett, and at the end of 1973 BN took three place in Great Britain, behind Conteh and Chris Finnegan. By the way, when the Ring magazine placed Max on the fifth, Finnegan was behind him at the eighth number. In 1974, Max was detained by a cut-off eye against German, Karl-Heinz Klein, and then stopped at three by Avenemmar Pealta in Austria. His last fight took place in 1975, when he stopped again in the third by Steve Azel for the title of the community of nations. He never got a British title, and today, at almost 80 years senior, Max still trains every day in his own gym in Stockton. He was a warrior of the ranking around the world.

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10 times WBC changed the game

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Vitali Klitschko WBC

  1. Reduction of 15-order
    After the death of Deuk Koo Kim during the fight with Ray Mancini in 1983, WBC issued a principle that stated that the maximum distance for the fight for the championship would be 12 rounds.
  2. I weigh at least 24 hours earlier
    Due to the fears of weakening of the boxers due to the weight production process, and then the fight on the same day as the indicator, the day before the introduction of defects.
  3. Intermediate weight classes
    Sport once had only eight classes, but now it has 17 (well, 18, if you include the producing weight). WBC introduced several novel divisions, recently in weight, super-medium weight and circuitous weight.
  4. Gloves without your thumbs
    In 1983, Everlast created the first thumb glove and was accepted by WBC due to fears related to eye injuries associated with the “thumb”. Today, the thumb is attached.
  5. Doping tests
    WBC were one of the first to enforce doping tests after the fight, and in 2016 introduced their immaculate boxing program, which required the fighters to want to be classified to register in random tests.
  6. Retired
    Masters who retire, still having the title of WBC, are usually awarded with the status of a “retired”, which means that if they return, they will automatically get a shot to the current master. Vitali Klitschko [above] He started it in 2008, when he returned to defeat Samuel Piotr.
  7. Four ropes
    It often happened that boxing rings have only three ropes, but WBC made it obligatory for all rings to put up the championships that consist of four.
  8. Diamond Championships
    A bit nonsense championship that appears in the “historical” battle in the division. Manny Pacquiao won the first welterweight division when he defeated Miguel Cotto in 2009.
  9. WBC Cares
    The organization performs a significant charity work with WBC Cares, which since founded in 2006 has over 160 volunteers around the world (their British branch is managed by Scott Welch).
  10. Franchise championship
    The franchise championships, which were introduced with great mockery in 2019, are different than diamond, silver, transient titles and allows masters to move between divisions, ignoring mandatory obligations and doing almost what they like. Probably it’s best not to start with this …

Read our interview with the President of WBC Mauricio Sulaiman HERE

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The Green Man: The Pub/Boxing Gym, which attracted Tommy Farr, David Bowie and more

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Tommy Farr

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.

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Version – Marco Antonio Barrera wins a furious and electrifying rubber match over Erik Morales

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Marco Antonio Barrera

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.

Do you know? At that time, WBO Feather Highland Scott Harrison was interested in an observer in Ringside. He hoped to catch the winner.

Watch out for: In the middle of nine, the fighters are involved in the clinch, and Barrera is bursting morale at the back of the head with a legal apparatus. Uninvited by his opponent, Morales refuses to touch Barrera gloves when the judge was asked.

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

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