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.

When Jacob Ntula first came to Great Britain in 1952, he did it as unknown. Born in Soweto in Johannesburg, Little African won each of his 10 professional competitions and gathered on the way after the South African flying weight and Bantam. In those days, two titles that he won were non-white versions, because black fighters could not participate in full duels for South African, because they were only open to white boxers.

Jake Tuli, as he is better known, quickly adapted to Teddy Gardner in the match for the crown of Empire. In mid -August 1952, Gardner’s promoter, Sol Sheckman, who pulled out strings at ST James Hall in Newcastle, where Gardner was a great draw, offered the world champion, Yoshio Shirai, 6000 pounds to defend against Gardner next month. It was a gigantic purse for miniature men at that time, but the Japanese warrior did not bite, so Sheckman quickly organized Tula to fight Gardner.

Gardner was a prevailing British, European and Empire champion, and in comparison with a virtual novice, he was to be pressure, while Gardner survived time for a larger competition. . He also kept full -time work conducting a pub in his hometown. At the age of 34, he did not fit into 21-year-old Tula, and after the defeat she crushed, Teddy quickly retired.

Then the door opened for Tula. His trainer, Dave Finn, just took out a license, and Tula was his first charge. Dave knew something about the game, fighting 174 times as a professional, at the highest level, in 1930–1946. The following month, Jake returned to St James Hall to fight Jimmy Pearce of Middlesbrough, who recently lost Terry Allen in the British title Eliminator. Tuli flattened his man in eight rounds, and Geordie Fight fans knew they had a real perspective on their hands.

Then the tragedy hit. His next competition at Royal Albert Hall was a real cracker. Bn He informed that “Viewers rarely woke up to comfort two fighters at the end of each round, as they did with joy during the competition between Jake Tuli and Honore Pratsi in France.

It was 10 rounds of sparkling actions that were a pleasure to watch and appreciated until the decision was made in favor of Tula, most viewers sway by the tribunals issued by a miniature Frenchman. ” Immediately after the competition, Pratsi fell in his wardrobe and, despite two emergency operations, died two days later.

Gloomy regret, Tuli gave his purse to the Pratsi widow and put down another engagement with Vic Herman, which took place later this month in Manchester. Tuli remained invincible in Great Britain in 1953, before he returned home to defend his non-white bastam scale three times in 10 weeks.

When he returned in December 1953, he lost from world -class Robert Cohen in Belle Vue, Manchester, he is dressed four times. Cohen won the world crown of Bantamweight just nine months later. After two years of being a master of Empire, Jake defended him against Dai Dower on the Harringay Arena. In a close competition, judge Andrew Smythe raised his hand at the end of 15 Bn He commented that it was “a depressed evening for Tula, who had returned immensely since the wrong match with Robert Cohen.”

Tuli stayed in British rings until 1957 when he returned home. The unsuccessful return in 1967 did not do any good to him, and when he died in November 1999, BnRon Olver said that his death became practically unnoticed in the South African press. His fire burned briefly, but vivid, and in 1952 he was a great name in sport, especially in the northeast.