By Miles Templeton

Greg Evans was a particularly colorful warrior from Liverpool in the seventies. Lively in 1976–1982, Greg won 10 and lost 10 with massive weight. The division was of course dominated by a colleague from Liverpudlian and WBC master, John Conteh, as well as Pat Thompson and Francis Hands also from the city and boxing of the same weight, Merseyside certainly contributed to massive weight at that time.

Greg was the champion of ABA ABA in 1976, which he achieved only 22 amateur competitions at the back. When he changed the professional in September 1976, he did it in a substantial concert at Empire Pool in Wembley. Joe Bugner destroyed Richard Dunn in one round at the summit of the bill, and Dave Boy Green, Jim Watt, Vernon Sollas and John L Gardner can also be seen, Greg had many investigations. You should surpass the experienced veteran Manchester, Terry Armstrong, over six rounds to start your professional career.

Greg has ever banned only one man with a loss of record throughout his entire career, far from the situation for future perspectives today. In his third duel he was surprised by Bob Pollard, losing in a tight eight round, but soon he showed a completely different approach when he blew up Warley Tough Man Brian Huckfield in one round at the Liverpool stadium, his first competition in his native city and, which is surprising for the five -foot novice In such a prestigious place, at the top of the bill.

He followed this with eight rounds of the decision about Roy Gumbs in Wembley, and Dave Boy Green lost his challenge in the title of the world in Carlos Palomino as the main star. What were the great cards in this era, with most of the huge ones that take place on Tuesday evening, [i].[i] Night to boxing in those days.

In November 1977, Evans was surprisingly beaten by Vernon Scott, and the loss was bad, a five -curing knockout. After defeating Harry White, the 11th assessed pretender, Greg was then chosen to fight Rab Affleck in the British eliminator of the title. I remember Raba as a banger well and he showed it very clearly in September 1978, when he undressed Evans, stopping him in just two minutes and nine seconds of the first round.

With three losses with only 10 matches and Evans hanging around the lower orders of the British top ten, it seemed to be at a crossroads. He did not meet expectations and needed a lot of win. Under the headline “Billy Blitzed”, Bn He informed exactly about this, the biggest win in his career just seven weeks later, when he took Billy Knight, one hell of a warrior, in less than three minutes. The report states that “for two minutes Knight easily poured Evans, showing his undoubted skills. Then Evans grabbed the knight with his left hook in his head and quickly followed his right to the jaw. Knight knocked down on canvas and could only float at six. “Then Evans ripped off in it, and judge Frank Parkes entered the knight with vitreous eyes and spinning.

Greg’s rollercoaster career then turned down to finish the year. After Harry White’s arrest in the return competition, he did not refrain from Roy Gumbs. Boxing for the first time in the style of Peek-a-Boo traded freely with Willlesden Fighter, with one and then the other, winning Acendoman, before Evans ran out of couple. He was finally detained in a defenseless state in the sixth state. Bad losses for Johnny Waldron and Tom Collins, in the central title of massive lightweight, were to occur, and things did not improve after his final victory in 1981 on Rupert Christie. Greg lost the last three, and then leaned after a miniature but very fun career, in which he mixed with challenging men while there were no straightforward rides.

The largest in history, Sugar Ray Robinson, 30 years aged February 14, 1951 against the 29-year-old master, Jake Lamottafrom Bronx.

14,802 The crowd produced a net gate of USD 138,938 tonight – the Lamotta master took 45 for a percentage of this, earning it 62,522 USD plus USD 1,500 from the sale of television and radio rights, 15 -percentage of Sugar Raya put it on $ 20,840 television.

It was the sixth and last meeting between the couple. Robinson won four out of the previous five, but Lamotta was the first man who defeated Sugar Ray in 41 fights in February 1943.

In our preview, Boxing news He said that it was one great advantage in favor of Lamotta – the fact that he was the only man who defeated Robinson as a professional. If Sugar Ray won, it was expected that he would give up 10th 7 pounds and concentrated on the middleweight division.

Boxing news He stated in his combat report that Lamotta kept his own in the early rounds, and on the fourth he fought furiously, but the straightforward -moving Robinson cleverly avoided turbulent attacks on the body.

After the criminal survival survival in the seventh and eighth round, Robinson cut Lamotty with a furious counterattack on his head and body during the next session. The master made another desperate effort to break through to the 11th, but Robinson, with a nice, wonderful coverage and counteracting, reduced Lamotty’s efforts into wild, unsuccessful explosions.

For the rest of this round and the next session, the blood flowed from the cuts of the face, when the ring rushed forward with powerless blows. Groggy, the helpless Lamotta, fell to his knees, desperately holding his rival to avoid knockout failure when Robinson hit in Wola when the judge intervened.

At the time of detention, Judge Frank Sikora had Robinson before 63-57, Franklin McAdams had 65-55, and Ed Klein was shot by 70-50 for Sugar Ray.

As a result of the beating of Lamota in later rounds, where he consumed such a sedate beating as every man he had ever taken in the ring, without falling on the canvas, the fight became known as “Valentine’s Massacre”.

At the end of this battle, they murmured the murmur of Bronx rebellion: “You never agreed, Ray,” and later he was celebrated for saying: “I fought with a ray of sugar so often, I almost got diabetes.” This win was the first title in the average weight for Robinson, which over the next nine years captured the title four times before he retired in 1965 as the greatest warrior in the history of this sport.

I love this story about Peter Keenan, who came across the world champion in massive weight, Sonny poston, when the American came to Great Britain in 1963. Sonny opposed Keenan, he smoked a cigar in his presence and was very rude to Scotland, saying yes. Little Piotr, who was only Bantam in the perfect side, but extremely good, told the master that he was quite prepared to pull him out with him, with bare cubes. I also heard that he said that Keenan was an extremely tough man “on the pavement” and not a man to cross.

Like many of our best little men, in flying weight and Bantam, Keenan came from Scotland. This country, along with Wales and Ireland, had a reputation of the production of great fighters with these weights, and Keenan was no exception, he was one of the best.

He took part in 17 title competitions, all of them in 15 rounds, between 1951 and 1959. For the first time he won the title of British weight in 1951, regained it in 1954, and during eight British title competitions he won two Lonsdale straps. He was only a third man and the first scot to reach this feat.

He maintained the European title twice when this title really meant something. For four years he reigned as a master of the Empire (currently the community of nations) and fought for the global title of Bantamweight against the South African, Vic Toweel in 1952. In his 11-year career he won 54 of 66 competitions and did not repeal anyone.

In 1948, just before he became a professional, Bn He stated that “Peter Keenan, a growing modern weight to Scotland, gives everyone a hint that he followed the path to the Fista, which is already lit by so many Scots boys on this pound, among whom they were such masters as Jackie Paterson, Benny Lynch, Johnny Hill , Elky Clark and Tancy Lee.

To mention the same breath as this galaxy of stars, you must be something better than ordinary, and undoubtedly Piotr, at the age of eighteen, showed talents much above the average. ” The writer also noticed that Keenan had a devastating blow and that “eight opponents in the last 21 fights” hit deck “and stopped there.”

While Keenan would surpass the Flyight department, this forecast came true. Keenan not only moved the blow to professional ranks, but remained a powerful weapon in the higher ward. He won his debut in 57 seconds, fallen five times the opponent in the first round in the third competition and won two more pristine knockouts a year ago.

In 1949 he fell into class and until the end of the year he was rated in fourth place in the British Fede -Fedy Division. At that time it was a very competitive weight, but one that Peter could not support. After defeating Vic Herman in a total 10-year-old before 15,000 at Firhill Park in Glasgow, Peter moved to Bantamweight and Future Glory.

His defense of the Empire titles from 1955 against Jake Tula summarizes his incredible perseverance and the fighting spirit. After dropping three councils in the first round and driving from the pillar to the position until nine, Keenan, who was far behind points, changed the dramatic way in the 14th round.

Under the header “sensational winning Kayo Keenana”, Bn He informed that Keenan “threw perfectly during his left hook, which spread to the South African on his back, while Keenan, with his hands holding high from the first moment, that he touched the canvas, made a device on the ropes.”

After his boxing career was over Keenan, he became a very successful businessman and put a lot into the game, regularly promoting Paisley and Glasgow. When he died in 2000, he was remembered as one of the greatest Scotland warriors in the history and a man who was respected by everyone, including Sonny Poston.