Today, Glasgow is widely perceived as a spiritual home of Scottish boxing, but in the 1920s, when sport flourished north of the border, Edinburgh was a boxing epideror in the country. This was largely thanks to the ambitions and entrepreneurship of one pioneering promoter – Nat Dresner.

Born in a Jewish family in the middle class in Leith around 1880, Nathaniel Dresner was the son of an importer of the Baltic shoes and pawnshop. NAT started his career in theater management and branched in boxing in 1922 accordingly. His growth in sport was meteoric.

In his first year, as a promoter, Dresner put up a sale at the Waverley Market, the roof fruit and vegetable market at the Edinburgh City Center, each time drawing thousands of viewers. In November, Nat reserved the prevailing world champion of weighty weight, the legendary fighting pee for an exhibition on the market. The fight collapsed, but the program appeared on the headlines. Prince George, Prince Kent, whose ship Royal Navy was abandoned in Port Edgar, was the ring to see local favorites, Alex Ireland and George McKenza, winning clear wins over Billy Mack from Liverpool and Londoner Fred Bullions. Ireland and McKenzie, both managed by Dresner, were to win British titles, and the European Crown Ireland.

January 2, 1923 – less than a year after entering the combat industry – NAT achieved a solemn, almost unthinkable coup in the state of the coup when he issued the first British and European struggle in Scotland; That he was questioned two Scots, there was cherry on the cake. At that time, England – especially London – had a virtual monopoly on master competitions. In the event, in the industrial hall at Annandale Street in Edinburgh, he saw the delicate champion Seaman Hall of Peebs, he saw the pretender Johnny Brown of Hamilton in over 20 rounds, before 12,000 fans. Nat cleverly staged a match just after the Sprint Race race, an athletics event, which attracted tens of thousands of enthusiasts to Edinburgh.

In November 1924, Dresner tempted a great kid Ted Lewis in defense of his British and European welterweight titles in the industrial hall. In the crowd of 20,000 (2000 disappointed slow lately closed) that Scotland Tommy Milligan conducted Teda titles with the 20-Rund win. The program has set a foreign attendance record for Scotland, which I think is still standing.

NAT used every opportunity to pack boxing into a wider audience. Unlike the London National Sport Club, which excluded women from the promotion, Dresner reserved some of the places in the field of rings for exclusive apply by women on all their programs. He also offered the unemployed reduced admission indicator if they produced their “bottom” cards. On the other hand, he willingly accommodated members of the Scottish nobility: Marquis Clydesdale was employed as a constant time in Ringside, and Sir Iain Colquhoun from Luss was MC at the main shows of NAT.

Dresner was also an experienced marketer who understood the value of branding. Judge George Smith, who worked as a program seller in Dresner’s promotions, told the boxing author Brian Donald: “We were all flawlessly dressed by a promoter in white woolen jumpers with the inscription” Nat Dresner “with the inscription and front of bold green letters. Everything was meticulously planned. “

In six low years, Dresner made great progress in this sport and it seemed that it was just beginning, but health intervened badly. Nat died on March 31, 1928, at the age of 48, after a two -year illness. Two -week before his death he left the ill bed to take part in his last promotion, when the versatile British and European title Milligan and Alex Ireland attracted 10,000 fans at Waverley Market. His coat now goes to other promoters, but Dresner’s place was provided in the history of the Scottish ring.

When Manny Pacquiao – Juan Manuel Marquez IV was announced that there is more than dissatisfaction among boxing boxing members. This concept will quickly be eliminated by rounds 37 to 42 tetralogy, which was probably the best of the group. The fight would gain a distinction between “Fight of the Year 2012”, but will be remembered for one unforgettable and destructive right fight after 2 minutes of 59 sixth round forever.

The previous three meetings between the couple were extremely close fights that could go both ways. Nevertheless, historical books will always be surrounded by two decision-making victories for Pacquiao and one 12-round draw after all three competitions hit the results of judges. Three Ringside judges on December 8, 2012 at MGM Grand Garden Arena would not be needed.

The fight began clearly, from Pacquiao trademarks, and the speed of the hand was enough to take the first two rounds on the cards, but the shoot changed in the third place, when the juggernauta on the right from Marquez knocked Pacquiao for the first time in 39 rounds between the couple. Herring raised the crowd to his feet and noise to almost carrying the level of decibels. Pacquiao, undetermined by this failure, will recover and have caught caution on the wind in the fourth round, waging a war with Marquez, which was more than willing to get involved. Marquez, which has swelling under the right eye, was dropped in fifth place by a velvety meter, which leveled the number of knocking down at one by one. When Marquez returned to his feet, the stock market stock exchanges followed the fact that both warriors were tearing in a cruel and thundering hit. The sixth round lasted, in which the exhausting fifth ended – Pacquiao detonates numerous harmful blows when it began to approach the detention of a brave Marquez. However, when one second of the round remained, Manny’s momentum was going to stop.

When Pacquiao closed the range, popping up twice the left stab, Marquez plunged to the left and exploded with the most destructive blows to the Filipinos, which immediately disconnected Pacquiao from his consciousness. Tris Dixon, in the ring that night, described the changing game as a “compact, atomic right hand, wandered about five whole grave backswing [that] He was rammed directly in the face of Pacquiao. ”

Time became still when Pacquiao crashed onto the floor, which caused judge Kenny Bayless not even to serve the count. The fight is over.

Almost 17,000 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena was silenced for a split second with a dramatic effect of a fist on the skull before exploding Mexican hysteria. Mexican fight fans finally won their victory to celebrate the great manny Pacquiao and did it happily. The increased contrast between these scenes and the shocking photos of the desperate wife Pacquiao, Jinkee, on the large screen, would somehow qualify the colossal historical significance of Marquez’s knockout.

That night, Marquez had the moment of defining his career, while Pacquiao will be able to decide whether he would extend his long and glorious ring career further, whether he would go away from sport and focused on a demanding congress calling. It testifies to the strength of the character and passion of Pacquiao to this sport that he chose the first and that three years after his destructive defeat with Marquez, boxing boxing fans in 2015 saw one of the biggest fights between the rejuvenated Pacquiao and the still pound-carrier king Floyd Mayweather Jr.

What a fantastic set of fighters in the photo this week. You can say what you like in Terry Lawless and his relationship with Barrett and Levene promotional syndicate, but he certainly knew how to produce world -class fighters. Before the appearance of Frank Warren in the early 1980s, these three promoters had a virtual thrill at the highest level of British boxing and were responsible for most of the most significant programs that took place at that time. They regularly exhibited regular concerts on Tuesday at Royal Albert Hall or Wembley Arena and at least one of the boys appeared unlike the majority, not all, bills that took place in 1977–1981.

Terry Lawless began as a boxing manager in 1956, and his gym was on the first floor of Royal Oak Pub in Canning Town for many years. The pub became a paradise for East Enders who liked a mug, as well as their boxing. Lawless learned lines as an assistant to Al Phillips, Aldgate Tiger, a man who led a very successful stable of fighters after his own days. Lawless was quite a successful businessman with a number of stores in retail, but boxing was his first love, and until the 1970s he was probably the leading and most renowned coach in Great Britain, and the boys were a cream of his crops.

Most readers will easily recognize Charlie Magri, Jim Watt and Maurice Hope, but I wonder how many of you can exchange them all of you? On the left is John L Gardner, British, Commonwealth and European Heavyweight Champion. John was a very decent heavyweight, but when his career fell between the career of Joe Bugner and Frank Bruno, it’s simple to forget him, but I loved the way he demolished Paul Sykes in 1979, and the game competition gave Jimmy Juvenile in the same year.

Next to John is a great Jimmy Batten. This boy was an outstanding student, one of the best since the war, and more than he met his potential as a professional. Batten was involved in one of the most exhilarating battles to the British title at a 15-round lightweight course and won the Lonsdale belt, and each competition ended at a distance. Let’s not forget about his scrap with great Roberto Duran. Charlie Magri It is unique, and its achievements are very well known, one of the best London fly scales. On both sides of Charlie are Johnny Waldron and Jimmy Flint. Waldron was a very good amateur who started in Beccles, where he won many titles before he moved to Fairburn House BC, and then Repton in the early seventies. During his stay in Repton he won the title in London in 1975. As a professional, Johnny never did it, and after a tiny career only 12 competitions, of which he lost only one, he made a brand on an unlicensed circumference. Johnny was the right tough man, and his life story is colorful.

Flint was one of my favorite fighters, he was a destructive hit in a featherweight and very exhilarating, and took his second career as an actor. Maurice Hope was an excellent owner of the WBC belt in the lightweight of weight. He had two great scraps with the rocky Mattiola, and the warrior of Caliban Wilfred Benítez eventually detoped him, and I think that his achievements are less remembered than today because he was a great warrior. The last group is Jim Watt. Jim signed a contract with Lawless in 1976, and Terry turned his career, leading him to the WBC title in just a few years. What a set of competitions for you boxers contrary to their counterparts today.