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.

When Manny Pacquiao – Juan Manuel Marquez IV was announced that there is more than dissatisfaction among boxing boxing members. This concept will quickly be eliminated by rounds 37 to 42 tetralogy, which was probably the best of the group. The fight would gain a distinction between “Fight of the Year 2012”, but will be remembered for one unforgettable and destructive right fight after 2 minutes of 59 sixth round forever.

The previous three meetings between the couple were extremely close fights that could go both ways. Nevertheless, historical books will always be surrounded by two decision-making victories for Pacquiao and one 12-round draw after all three competitions hit the results of judges. Three Ringside judges on December 8, 2012 at MGM Grand Garden Arena would not be needed.

The fight began clearly, from Pacquiao trademarks, and the speed of the hand was enough to take the first two rounds on the cards, but the shoot changed in the third place, when the juggernauta on the right from Marquez knocked Pacquiao for the first time in 39 rounds between the couple. Herring raised the crowd to his feet and noise to almost carrying the level of decibels. Pacquiao, undetermined by this failure, will recover and have caught caution on the wind in the fourth round, waging a war with Marquez, which was more than willing to get involved. Marquez, which has swelling under the right eye, was dropped in fifth place by a velvety meter, which leveled the number of knocking down at one by one. When Marquez returned to his feet, the stock market stock exchanges followed the fact that both warriors were tearing in a cruel and thundering hit. The sixth round lasted, in which the exhausting fifth ended – Pacquiao detonates numerous harmful blows when it began to approach the detention of a brave Marquez. However, when one second of the round remained, Manny’s momentum was going to stop.

When Pacquiao closed the range, popping up twice the left stab, Marquez plunged to the left and exploded with the most destructive blows to the Filipinos, which immediately disconnected Pacquiao from his consciousness. Tris Dixon, in the ring that night, described the changing game as a “compact, atomic right hand, wandered about five whole grave backswing [that] He was rammed directly in the face of Pacquiao. ”

Time became still when Pacquiao crashed onto the floor, which caused judge Kenny Bayless not even to serve the count. The fight is over.

Almost 17,000 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena was silenced for a split second with a dramatic effect of a fist on the skull before exploding Mexican hysteria. Mexican fight fans finally won their victory to celebrate the great manny Pacquiao and did it happily. The increased contrast between these scenes and the shocking photos of the desperate wife Pacquiao, Jinkee, on the large screen, would somehow qualify the colossal historical significance of Marquez’s knockout.

That night, Marquez had the moment of defining his career, while Pacquiao will be able to decide whether he would extend his long and glorious ring career further, whether he would go away from sport and focused on a demanding congress calling. It testifies to the strength of the character and passion of Pacquiao to this sport that he chose the first and that three years after his destructive defeat with Marquez, boxing boxing fans in 2015 saw one of the biggest fights between the rejuvenated Pacquiao and the still pound-carrier king Floyd Mayweather Jr.

The twins in boxing are quite infrequent, and yet in recent years two pairs, Galaxy and Charlo Brothers, have won the main lanes at the world level. Over 100 years ago, in the States, Mike and Jack Sullivan were world -class operators, with the previous attachment of the world -class weight title in 1907. In Great Britain, there are few successful twins, although on many boxes. In the 1950s and 1960s, two sets of twins are wavy in heavier divisions on the home. Johnny Ould from Bermondsey was a representative of GB on the weights of lithe at the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960. He avoided the final winner, Cassius Clay, due to the happiness of the draw. Johnny was the champion of ABA of this weight in 1959 and twice unsuccessfully boxed the title of the southern area as a professional. His twin brother, Dave, though less successful as an amateur, won the heavyweight title in the southern area in 1964 after defeating Len Hobbs at points at the 10-Runder at Cafe Royal. I remember how many years ago I met them in Leba and although Dave is no longer with us, you can see him in many films, including Długi Good Friday.

Of course, the most notable couple were Henry and Jim Cooper. Henry fought Muhammad Ali twice, and also boxed Floyd Patterson and Ingemar Johansson. Only Tommy Farr, who lit Joe Louis, Max Baer and Jimmy Braddock, can also apply for a distinction between being a British warrior, who in the preceding days became stupid with many titles.

But what about Jim Cooper? His real name is George I, like Dave OFF, had to endure his twin master ABA, as well as an Olympic representative, while his own amateur career was much less successful. While Henry became a home brand in Great Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, few knew about George and his own professional career, and yet he was a very decent hefty weight and was once assessed as the fifth best weight in the country behind his brother, Dick Richardson, Brian London and Joe Erskine.

He made his debut against Dick Richardson George in a professional debut and from the very beginning Jim Cooper was. During the concert in Elderly Harrinringay, Arena from 1954 beat Richardson at points in six rounds after he was dressed twice in an opening round. He came back extremely well to come back from such a needy beginning to win the fight. Henry also became a professional on the same bill, dropping Harry Painter in one round. After winning the next competition in one round at Manor Place Baths, Jim returned to Harringay to be stopped in 55 seconds by Bob Gardner. The reason for this shameful failure was a badly cut eye. This type of injury harasses Jim’s career, as, unfortunately for Henry.

In 1957, Jim had to be in despair, despite winning five of his first seven competitions, he was then battered by Brian London in four rounds, he was disqualified against Albert Finch and lost another three stripes because of the cut -out eye. As a result, in 1958. In 1958. In 1958, when he returned in 1959, it was the same senior story in which he was detained again with cuts against Nigeria, Sammy Langford. In the sixties he fought back to the fight against the victory over Johnny Prescott, Ray Shiel and Peter Bates.

Jim was never as good as his brother, but he was a very talented hefty weight at a time when the division was affluent in home talent and deserves well to emerge from the shadows and remember independently.