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Nat Dresner – Mr. Boxing Edinburgh
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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.
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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.
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A lot was expected about the battle of unification of power between Trinidad and Vargas and, fortunately, did not disappoint. Trinidad, who defended his title WBA, jumped out of the blocks and twice started in the opener twice. Vargas returned a favor in the fourth round, sending Trinidad to a mat. Even worse for Felix, he was also deducted to a low blow. The same violation meant that the next point was taken from Trinidad in seventh place, before Vargas lost the point after a closer south of the border in 10. Constant violence with the view lasted to 12., in which the trio knocking up from Trinidad finally ended to a perfectly exhilarating competition.
Do you know? Former victim of Trinidad, Kevin Lueshing, called Boxing news Offices to discuss a brutal conclusion to fight. He said: “It caused a terrible memory of how he finished me.”
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This is the latest in the occasional series about the heavyweight champions of the world and their visits to Great Britain. In previous articles I wrote about Primo Carner and Langford himself, and this week I will look at Jacek Johnson and his British concert tour of 1908. Jackjohnson came to Great Britain on Monday, April 27 from the States, when the German steamer, Kronprinz Wilhelm, did in Plymouth. He was accompanied by his manager, Fitzpatrick himself, and two men immediately followed the train from Plymouth to the Paddington station in London, checked in at the Adelphi Hotel, and in the evening he visited the British Botker, in the field of eight circles, to see 20 rounds.
Johnson was in Great Britain to hunt Tommy Burns, also visiting London, to force him to defend the title, which, as we know, took place in Sydney eight months later. Two men exchanged words in Sporting Press and Burns, who stayed in Jacek’s Castle, in a pub in Hampstead, immediately published 1000 pounds from The Sporting Life, stating that if the Johnson camp was fitting to this amount, the fight was turned on. Fitzpatrick opposed the terms for which Burns insisted on the proposed match and refused to cover money. Johnson challenged the shooting moir, but it was rejected when Moir drew a color line and refused to meet the American.
Johnson spent the majority of this summer, appearing in various music rooms in Great Britain, boxing at exhibitions with a wide British heavyweight, including Jewey Smith, Jam Styles and Fred Drummond. In those days it was quite lucrative for the highest level boxers. Then he was tailored to Ben Taylor (Woolwich) to a 20-round competition in Plymouth. Jack trained on a fight at Regent’s Park and at the Junior High School at the National Sporting Club. He left the Waterloo station on July 30 to go to Plymouth for a fight, which was to take place the next day in Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Mill Street. A vast contingent of fans welcomed him in the city of Devon, which at that time was the center of the fight of the great importance.
The competition, as you can expect, turned out to be one -sided when Johnson defeated Taylor with ease, raising him 11 times in front of a judge called Halt in the eighth round. After the duel, Johnson praised Taylor at his break, stating that he never met a player during his entire career. Later that night at the Mount Pleasant Hotel gathered at the Mount Pleasant Hotel, near the cosmopolitan, where Taylor founded his training camp, and Jack appeared to give Taylor again congratulations to Taylor for organizing such a good competition.
Johnson took part in a series of exhibitions in Dublin, and then in Bristol, where he participated in the Bristol City Vs Everton football match in Ashton Gate – his first experience in sport. Until September 7, he returned to London and announced that in October he was adapted to Box Mike Schreck at the National Sporting Club. On September 14, Schreck manager Jimmy Kelly was announced that the fight was not turned off because Schreck could not be relied to get to a decent condition for the fight.
Together with Burns in Australia, Johnson remained high and desiccated, without a significant fight, so the National Sports Club organized a competition against Sam Langford, which took place at the club on November 9. What would be a coup d’état – a match between the two best bulky scales in the world – but unfortunately this did not happen. On Monday, September 21, Johnson left the Charing Cross Station on the planned Łódź train at 13.20 to France to start a long journey to Australia, where he finally met and defeated Tommy Burns three months later.

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