When we slowly move out of the whole series of blockades and professional boxing, both internal and external, they begin to gather again, it is not surprising that our little hall promoters are again demanding stage shows. September already looks like it will be a very busy month, and this is great news for the hordes of newborn boys, ticket sellers and journeymen, whose careers have been largely suspended over the last 18 months.

Over the past 40 years, the number of promotions taking place throughout Great Britain usually ranged between 200 and about 280 per year. The last year, in which over 300 professional tournaments took place, took place in 1955 and throughout the entire period in 1961–1976 there were fewer than 200 shows each year. Throughout the Second World War, there were never less than 400 shows, and in two years, 1940 and 1942, over 500. After the war there was a boom and often there were over 1,000 events taking place annually in Great Britain. This ended with the introduction of entertainment tax in 1953, when the promoters had to pay the government even a third of profit, which tried to fix the post -war economy with a cripple, and the boxing in a compact hall never really regained.

In the case of a truly astronomical number, you should return to the 1930s, and in particular years in 1930–1934. During this five years there have never been less than 4,000 shows a year, in 1931 and 1933. Over 5,000. It was possible to see two or even three professional tournaments taking place the same day in cities such as Preston, Sheffield, Leeds and Barnsley. In much smaller places, such as Ryton and Colne in Lancashire, in the same evening there were competing promoters regularly put to concerts towards a enormous and enthusiastic audience. Professional boxing could be seen throughout the UK, often in places that have been starved from sport for the last 70 years; Norfolk, Suffolk, Cornwall, Devon and Cumbria, in which he noticed little, were all habitats, with hundreds of newborn boys fighting at licensed tournaments in places such as Penzanka, Truro, Cirborne, Newton ABBOT, DIS, SPALDING, Lowing, Great Yarmouth, Whitehaven, Vormon and Vormon Penrth. In larger industrial areas, such as southern Wales and northeast, hundreds of tournaments were held a year, in Newcastle, in St James Hall, you could watch a professional boxing six nights a night a week in 1933 and 1934.

World economic depression, which began in 1929 and lasted in the 1930s, was responsible for this boom in sport in Great Britain. I used to talk to many warriors from this period and while most of them enjoyed a ring career, almost everyone told me that they boxed because they had to be so challenging. The handbags they fought for, often less than 1 £, at least helped put food on the table, and this period was not called “hungry thirty”. Nowhere was there so striking in the southern WALIA, where most coal mines tried to remain economically profitable, and tens of thousands of miners were released many times, professional boxing provided some kind of income of many newborn boys who spilled gloves, even if there were not so many people who could afford to arrive.

Now, when Pandemia finally goes back, it would be wonderful to see how boxing is subjected to another mini-booom and for this magical in total 300 programs that will be violated again, so everyone behind our organizers of compact apartments, so that it needs to happen because they need our support.

You will see Eugene Corri on materials shot at the National Sporting Club (NSC) in the London Garden Covent Garden, the headquarters of British boxing from 1891 to the twenties, where well dinner crowds watched incredible silence during the fight, when smoke with cigars spread around a compact decorative room. He usually sits the ring, assessing the fight from outside the ropes, just like the norm for British judges.

With his circle, his constantly forcing face, growing a mustache and an extravagant sense of his Corinthian coat and the highest hat of style worn by dollars of the regency-Corri period was a figure greater than life and a key figure in the early 20th century in British boxing. A simal, joyful man and engaging Grębnik, “Gen’s gene”, as he was known, had a wide circle of friends, from his peers to Pugilists. He loved cigars and was rarely seen without them; It is said that his consumption even exceeds Lord Lonsdale cigars. But under the living figure there was a strict way that made him one of the most severe judges in the game.

As a teenage man, Gene, he worked at Trogmorton Street at City of London, as a official of a securities broker, and later he became a partner in the company. He got involved in boxing in the 1880s, when he was 20 years ancient. After trying his hand in noble art, he moved to refereeing. When NSC was opened in 1891, he was one of its first members and became one of his regular judges.

During his long career, Corri dealt with fights with the participation of such legends like Carpentier, Tommy Burns, Sam Langford, Sam McVea, Jimmy Wilde, Jim Driscoll, Ted Kid Lewis, Freddie Welsh, Willie Ritchie, Pedlar Palmer, George Dixon and Mickey Walker. No wonder he had a wealth of stories from his time in boxing and shared them in four intriguing books.

For example, when distrustful burns insisted that distrustful burns insist, that his money for the world heavyweight title with Gunner Moir in NSc distrustful burns insists that his money from the purse would be placed in the hands of a judge. The NSC manager “Peggy” Bettinson properly agreed and gave Corri a huge disadvantage of notes, which he slipped into the internal pocket of the dinner jacket.

As the General Competition progressed, he was forced to enter the ring to take control of the action. Feeling the heat, he threw the jacket on the ring chair. Burns won the fight in 10 rounds, at which Corri remembered the disadvantages of the notes and threw himself to recover the coat. To his huge relief, cash was still there!

As a partner in the Stockbrokers industry, Corri was a wealthy man, counting the multimillionary Diamond Magnates Barney Barnato, Jack and Solly Joel and Sir Abe Bailey among his clients and intimate friends. But in the outbreak of World War I closed the company and entered the unfortunate scientific partnership. It was went bankrupt in 1921.

Now in the 1960s his status in the boxing world was unchanged, but he will fight financially for the rest of his days. After meeting with Corri to Fleet Street in the 1920s, the ancient friend of the journalist was shocked by his “Shabby with clothes and a general in appearance on the heel”, later writing: “When I contrasted his dignified poorer clothes with those whom he wore, when I saw him, I just didn’t believe in the eyes.”

But Corri remained cheerful and stoic despite his bad fortune. He has suffered from health in recent years, but he managed to publish his last memory, Fifty years in the ringin 1933. When he died in his home in Southend in December, the sports and national press were full of praise. The header spilled on the back Daily Mirror He captured his position in sport. He read: “Eugene Corri, king of boxing judges.”

Floyd Mayweather It is intended to play the villain. By breaking Victor Ortiz into canvas on MGM Garden Arena, he did not violate the rules of boxing, but offended the sensitivity of sports fans.

Not that “cruel” Victor behaved as a gentleman, far from him. Bambox by the master “money”, in the fourth round Southpaw finally found himself a note. His bulky left hand hit Floyd’s head, and Mayweather quickly withdrew. Struggling on his chance that Ortiz raced behind him, issuing a frenzy of blows. But even with the back to the ropes, Floyd is commanded. He entered Olust, allowing this orthizing fist flicker next to it, spend before tied the arms of a younger man.

His taken up, his rush was exhausted, Ortiz fouled. He jumped off the floor to be in the mouth of Mayweather.

Before the fight, Floyd of the Grand Rapids, Michigan did not hide his desire to knock out the WBC welterweight master. Holding him in a cut chin, Mayweather shook his head and his fury senses. Ortiz admitted his foul and threw himself to kiss Mayweather on the cheek, an engaging gesture of apology. Floyd did not notice and would not care if he had.

“I am in the zone,” he said later, “everything is blocked.”

Judge Joe Cortez led Victor’s hand around the ring, subtracting the point. Two fighters came to the center of the ring. Cortez signaled them. Ortiz once again tried to apologize, touching the gloves with both hands, almost reaching for half-embrace. His face, Floyd, did not intend to forgive his mood. Ortiz went back, his hands hanging stupidly to his sides.

The fist in the air, where she was touching the gloves, the Mayweather hit the hook. The left changed Victor’s head. Ortiz’s eyes remained on the judge, referring to Cortez because of the injustice of the strike. Mayweather’s eyes never left his trace. He slipped forward, fired his infallible right cross, and Victor was completely unveiled.

He broke through Ortiz. On his back, Victor rolled up on his hands and knees, but leaning from side to side, face to face, he did not find a way to defeat the count. If he came up with it, he could recover-time he was 2-59 in the fourth.

But there is no reason to assume that Ortiz could change the result. Instead of systematic beating, Mayweather gave him a chilly, cruel finish. But Mayweather, convincingly, said: “He couldn’t take a brutal punishment for 12 rounds. If he did, he would never be the same in his entire career.”

The right hand that closed the case tormented the master throughout the evening. He was rushing again and again, rinsed as lead.
Floyd was up to date. His left had control over the stab of Southpaw, and when his hand was worried about Ortiz, Mayweather hit him right. Unlike the clear blow, Ortiz could not rub the enemy. The assumed defense protected him, and Floyd had a move to catch his body forward to let Victor’s left was not harmless above. His quick basics allowed him to move back, like a lead hook from Ortiz only touched the air.

A man from Ventura in California was doing better in the second round. He performed more, he didn’t do what Floyd wanted about him. This patience could be his only hope in the face of such an expert opponent. However, it did not get him in the round. Mayweather has advanced, his face is a picture of focus. Ortiz directed the left to the body, but he registered not so much as a blink. From time to time, Floyd’s smile marked the moments when Ortiza’s blows tried and could not be caught on the ropes.

Floyd chose his land, and the rear hand threw home three times. He saw when Ortiz was preparing to hit. Whenever the leader of Victor moved into a fraction, the Mayweather cross arrived with exceptional accuracy.

At the beginning of the third, Mayweather JAM shot the master’s nose. When Ortiz tried to force his way forward, the left hook turned him into the corner. Outside, Victor tried to fight for his way, but he could not get the Fist of the round guard of Mayweather, whose gloves were up, moving where they had to be.

Victor looked solid. 10. 7 pounds for weighing, half a pounder than Mayweather, would put more time on the fight. But Floyd’s constant rights had to break away from his resistance. The back hand of “Money” broke up, and Ortiz withdrew with sudden danger. Maybe this arrow convinced the 24-year-old that he had no depth.

In the fourth, Mayweather held the Ring Center, promoting. A double left hook performed, opening a clear path on the right. It is irony that during the fight coach Ortiz, Danny Garcia, accused Mayweather of “muddy”. At night, Ortiz bowed with his head, for which Cortez already warned him against this wild foul.

The required revenge of Mayweather could have been cynical, but if Cortez called time, as he later claimed, it was not illegal. The judge returned to them. It was a choice of Victor to touch the gloves again and there is no rule that obliged Mayweather to save him.
Then Mayweather showed the cuts on the chin and in his mouth, as well as a vast nodule on the back of the head, significantly behind the ear – this is certainly not a justified goal. Ortiz made the fight brutal. After removing this path, he tried to withdraw from the street fight. Mayweather showed that one of them can win if necessary.

But the application would not do “money”. Floyd is the opposite of promotion. He fights with a tidy class that requires admiring. Lack of sports at the end overshadowed the rest of his majestic exhibition. The knockout could be ugly, but by that time his boxing was attractive. For the performance, a more artistic finish, which is clearly more than capable, would make it perfect. But if everything that counts counts, you can’t fault 42-0 Mayweather.