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Liverpool vs Manchester – great amateur boxing competition

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Robbie Davies of Liverpool

Ordinary readers of this column will know that I have a weakness for amateur boxing, especially for the Golden Age of Sport in Great Britain, the 1950s to the 1980s, when amateur boxing was the most competitive and the standard was so high. They will also know that I regret the changes introduced to the ABA structure, and aged regional competitions lose their identity to a gigantic extent. London divisions, which I wrote about in June 2019, were very hard to win, and the same applies to the Northwestern Poviat Championships.

At that time, the northwestern poviats were divided into two regions, east and west. This meant that the boys from Liverpool, in the western area, began to compete directly with those from Manchester, in the eastern area. It would be hard to find two English cities that have a greater competition, which was reflected in boxing, when the appropriate masters from two cities often met in the north-west finals. Of course, there were many other boxers from various parts of Cheshire and Lancashire, who won these finals, including Frankie Taylor (Lancaster), George and Ray Gilbody (St Helens), Kelvin Travis (Oldham) and Steve Hill (Blackpool), but boys from two cities dealing with the dominance of this event.

The championships were often held at the Liverpool stadium and in Belle Vue in Manchester, with Preston Guildhall and Kirkby Sports Center, as well as the list of masters sounds like who to who to who of British Greats – John ContehAlan Rudkin, Joey Singleton, George Turpin, Terry Wenton, John Lynch and Robbie Davies from Merseyside and Phil Martin, Ray Shiel, Alan Tottoh, Kenny Webber, Eddie Copeland and Lee Hartshorn from Cotton City.

Let’s go back to one of these championships and try this opportunity. On March 15, 1973, the championships were held at the Liverpool stadium before a huge crowd of almost four thousand. In the heavyweight Les McGowan from Speke, which was at that time rated first in Great Britain, he had to withdraw due to a back injury. This opened the door of Paul Sykes, a boy Wakefield, who recently enlisted to Liverpool Club, Golden Gloves ABC. Sykes destroyed the former master of NW, Terry Connor, in two rounds to win the title of West and did a similar job at 19-year-old Barry Peacock in Manchester (Cavendish ABC) to win the title. Finally, he lost to Garfield Mcewan in the ABA semi -final, and Mcewan won the title of ABA this year before he became a decent professional.

Two other warriors from Liverpool, Joe Lally and Robbie Davies, also won their titles in a welterweight and lightweight weight, respectively. Both were great punchers, and Davies was particularly destructive when he sent another Mancunian from the Cavendish club, Carlton Lyons, for one round. Carl Speare, who as a professional fought with Larry Paul, Billy Knight and Maurice Hope, won his only championships of NW, via Outhustling Terry Dolan (BDS) during full course, and George Gilbody, one of the greatest amateurs in this era, won in Bantamweight through Walker, Keith Howard (Ardwick).

Another unique talent, Southpaw John Lynch from Kensington, won in a featherweight, defeating Paul Dykes (Brookdale Park), and Tony Carroll and Steve Hill were outstanding winners in featherlight and lightweight, respectively. Among these names there were many future specialists and everyone went through a hard series of competitions to become a northwestern champion in a hard era. From 1957, two teams from the eastern and western areas competed for Jacek M. Peel’s memorial trophy, awarded the area, which had the most winners, and Liverpool Lads never lost him. In 1973, they triumphed nine duels to one, but only one of their representatives, John Lynch, won this year by ABA.

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That day: Joe Calzaghe forced Chris Eubanek’s “murky place” in a significant clash of super-medium weight

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Joe Calzaghe in PTS 12 Chris Eubank
October 11, 1997; Sheffield Arena, Sheffield
“I dropped Eubank very early, but after six rounds I was gassed,” said Joe Calzaghe Boxing news This summer. “It was my most arduous fight, passing through 12 rounds. It arrived until the end of the six circulation.

Do you know? Ronnie Davies, Eubank’s longtime coach, refused to cooperate with his aged friend for this fight, believing that he was too threatening. Eubank was to fight Marek Prince in the fight for bulky, before Steve Collins retired and withdrew from the fight with Calzaghe. BBB C was monitored by Eubank for each of the seven days before the competition to make sure he safely made 168 pounds.

Watch out for: Fly-on-the Wall of Calzaghe and Eubank furry in their cloakrooms, just before making the ring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T-D6qocqk4

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The first 10 opponents of future heavyweight masters

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The first 10 opponents of future heavyweight masters Boxing news






















  1. Lionel Butler
    The earnest butler passed from losing to the debutant of Riddick Bowe in 1989 to secure the WBC eliminator with Lennox Lewis in 1995. Finally, he gave up in 2010 with a record of 32-17-1 (25).
  2. Howard Smith
    Eight years before getting the WBA belt in 1980, Mike Weaver lost to Smith during his first two professional trips. Howard also fought Earnie Shavers, and its last part was decent 17-2 (10).
  3. Tunney Hunsaker
    Six months before losing more than six rounds with Cassius Clay, Hunsaker survived the ninth round with the former contender for the title of the world, Tom McNeley. He will retire in 1962 with an estimated record of 19-15-1 (10).
  4. James Broad
    The talented man Greensboro had 2-0 when he knocked out the future of WBA Titlist, James “Bonecrusher” Smith in his debut in 1981. He retired in 1993 in 23-10 (15).
  5. Al Malcolm
    Malcolm, who lost to Lennox Lewis in 1989, was a solid professional who could not cross him at the top of the national level. Although he won the Midlands Area Pas, he shortened Gary Mason, Hughroy Currie, Noel Quarless and Michael Murray.
  6. Don Waldham
    Troster in the third round with George Foreman in 1969, Waldham managed to pass longer than many future enemies of Slugger in ponderous weight. Waldham, 5-5-2, did not fight again.
  7. Woody Goss
    Goss was detained in the round of opening by Joe Frazier in 1965, when he abandoned his future king. He got involved in two fights with a noteworthy difficult, Jacek O’halloran before he left in 1969 with a record of 6-5-2 (3).
  8. Lupe Guerra
    The debut opponent of Frank Bruno mixed with a decent company. Guerra, flattened by Substantial Frank in one round in 1982, also fought (and was hit by) Leon Spinks, Tony Tucker and Jerry Quarry.
  9. Rodell Dupree
    After staying four rounds with Larry Holmes in 1973, Dupree was detained by some fighters who would unsuccessfully challenge Larry when he was a champion, like Renaldo Snipes and Randall “Tex” Cobb.
  10. Hector Mercedes
    Mercedes was not much better after he was steam by youthful Mike Tyson in 1985. The only other significant name on his album 1-10 is Paul Poirier, who stopped the Mercedes in two parts.

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Mike Milligan, a man behind the scenes of one of the most colorful eras in British boxing

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Every solemn boxing ephemeral collector has repeatedly seen the name Mike Milligan on British programs and hands in the 1930s to the 1960s. At various times he was a professional boxer, trainer, second, whip and matchmaker. Although his own rings career was miniature and unusual, he was present in other roles for many vast British fights.

Born in London East End in 1908, his Boxing news The obituary states that his real name is Mark Vezan. However, I cannot find a list of this name in official birth or death indexes, so it’s probably wrong. At the age of 15, Milligan joined the Victoria Working Boys boys club in Whitechapel, where the British and European master Harry Mason had his first boxing lessons. At the age of 16, Mike changed his professional, debuting in the notable Premierland, where he won the prince’s sum of 17s 6d (88 pence) for six -handed. He had a few more fights before he turned to the training and made contact with Kingpin Emerging End End Kingpin, Johnny Sharpe. Johnny set Mike for his gym “45” on Mile End Road. Two early Milligan students are Moe Moss and Kid Farlo, both of which he gave Sharpe to manage and became leading professionals. Others Mike trained at 45 gyms, to Jack Hyams, Archie Sexton, Laurie and Sid Raiteri and Billy Mack.

After a few years with Sharpe Milligan, he went to work for Joe Morris, a manager of such stars as Teddy Baldock and Dick Corbett. Mike still worked for Morris in 1934, when Joe, supported by a petite syndicate, bought the lease of an vintage church on Devonshire, Hackney Street, transforming him into a boxing room. The Devonshire club, as it was called, coped with us, prompting Morris and other investors to sell his future promotional Supremo (but then little known) Jacek Solomon. Milligan stopped at Devonshire and worked as an assistant to “home” and Jacek until 1940, when this place was blurred by the Luftwaffe bomb.

In this miniature time, Devonshire became the leading petite hall of the eastern London. It was during this spell that Mike, who had a gift to detect talent, discovered his greatest discovery of his fists. Milligan took the future British featherlight champion Eric Boon [pictured above right with Milligan] Under his wing after he saw him as a 15-year-old on the account of the Devonshire club. Mike trained Eric and was a key impact in the early years, traveling with him wherever he fought.

In 1940, Milligan joined the army as a shooter in Ra, and also served as an instructor entitled He was annulled from the army after an injury at the site of the weapon and spent six months in the hospital. From there, he returned to work as a whip for Salomons and many other promoters, and became a lasting element of what is on a wonderful pregnancy on the shelf, a place outside, located in a crumbling brick and wavy iron walls. From 1951, Mike worked as a match in places such as Mil End Arena and Epsom Baths, and for many years he was a member of the South Council of the region.

“A lively personality with a pleasant way and enthusiasm for boxing, which radiates positively from him,” was like one newspaper described him in 1940. And this enthusiasm for the game has never decreased. “Mike worked as a bookmaker, but boxing was his life,” noted the obituary in boxes in 1964. “He ate, drank and slept boxing … he rarely left the program, vast or petite.”

The sudden death of Milligan, at the age of 56, shocked the British brotherhood of the fight. Many leading boxing characters – among them Salomons, Sharpe and Benny Huntman – were at his funeral in Rainham in Essex to respect a man who left his marks behind the scenes in one of the most colorful eras of British boxing.

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