Everyone who tries to promote at a miniature boxing event in the 1960s, just like today, had to be prepared for a lot of money. The...
Controversial decisions seem quite common today in boxing. This is not surprising, considering the way virtually every high -level competition can be seen live, and its...
One of the best fighters who have never won the British title is undoubtedly Owen Moran from Birmingham. While Moran was vigorous, in 1900–1916, the British...
In the Ring edition in November 1930, the 10 best medium scales are fine for the master, Mickey Walker. It is crucial that the most crucial...
Two pretty exponents of British boxing in the early 1980s are Sid Smith from Forest Hill, London and Chris Sanigar from Bristol. Both were really challenging...
Every year in 1948–1955 Jack Solomons, then the largest promoter in British boxing, accustomed to the stage of one show per year, in the open air,...
Currently, I combine and index my results in 1904 before they are introduced into my database, and I came across several captivating entries that show how...
Max Baer was one of the most colorful heavyweight masters. He was a destructive blow, and his escalate in the title in 1930–1934 showed him at...
In the 1980s, there was a very popular advertisement on British television for yellow BT pages, in which the elderly gentleman finally follows his beloved book...
On October 14, 1980, it will be remembered as a black day in a British professional boxing, and a particularly low point between the editor and...
Just three weeks ago I wrote an obituary for Bn on Ron Cooper, Olympian at the 1948 Games. Ron was one of the two survivors from...
Between the wars, when British boxing was the most strenuous -working, there were plenty of entrepreneurial promoters who want to earn a few pounds, putting professional...
In this column I can’t ignore Ken Buchanan’s recent death. Earlier I said that I think Ken was the best purist that the United Kingdom has...
When Lonsdale’s belts were first awarded in 1909, the first three three went to Welshmen. Freddie Welsh from Pontypridd won the first BELT competition in the...
After the departure of Steve Hiser Bem, Amateur Boxing lost the third of the three titans who dominated the London coaching stage for half a century....
In boxing, there is a saying that if the promoter wants to make a compact fortune from sport, he will start better with a enormous one....
The theme in which the parrot still lies in the fact that in the 1930s, when there were so many professional fighters up and down, virtually...
Last month it was marked 50 years since I bought my first copy Boxing newsAnd since then I bought it. On the front cover there was...
