The Bronx, Novel York, July 2, 1935. The spectacular Yankee stadium, in which the Novel York Yankees lives, hosted 48,000 fans of the fight to see a special amateur program directed by the former king of ponderous heavyweight heavyweight Gene Tunney.
Golden Gloves champions in Novel York intended to test their enthusiasm against the British team of ABA. Paul Gallico, the celebrated sport who founded gold gloves and helped organize this event, said that the British were surprised by the time of this amateur tournament. He wrote rather patronly: “Our whole matter with the reflector and music, tips and flags and what we call a presentation, makes them a bit tired. They do not do such things in Merry, England and do not understand why we do it.”
Gallico and other ring reporters expected a clear victory in the Crack American team. They were surprised. As the competitions passed, the wins for the ABA team quickly set up. The most crucial British amateurs rinsed their American counterparts – including (in retrospect, the most unusual of all), in which this is the huge triumph of Albert Barnes Cardiff because of the future world champion in fertilization, Petey Scalzo.
But the Novel Yorkers believed that they had an ace in a skying – heavyweight. It was the age of the “horizontal British heavyweight”, when the great people of Great Britain turned out to be a slight adaptation to their more solid rivals in the USA.
However, the ABA team had two great ponderous ponderous in Tony Stuart (London Fire Brigade) and Pat Floyd (Battersea and The Times). Between them they created a virtual monopoly of British heavyweight awards, winning four ABA titles and directed to each other in six finals. In total, they fought 16 times, winning eight pieces.
In ABA vs Golden Glovers Showdown Stuart took care of Larry Green, winner of the second place in the Novel York Golden Gloves final and stopped him for three. While Floyd, this year’s champion by ABA, faced Jim Howell of Harlem, who defeated Green to win the Novel York Golden Gloves crown.
Pat, a skillful 6 -step technician that could hit with both hands, packed well to get the Verdict of Gene Tunney. This and the victory of Stuart was an icing on the cake in eight wins in the ABA team. Then Tunney, along with another heavyweight legend Jacek Dempsey, praised Pat’s performance and urged him to change the professional. But the Englishman – an amateur – was not interested.
“I used to train in the Joe Bloom gym,” said Floyd later Boxing news“Sparring with any professional who came: Tommy Farr, Len Harvey, Daniels Gips, Danny and Packy Paul, Al Delaney, Robey Leibbrandt and the unhappy del fontaine. Joe Bloom called me” Mad Amateur “because I boxed for free and paid my own expenses.”
Nevertheless, Pat would fall as one of the best in Great Britain in heavyweight history, establishing a seal for fame when he came out of a pension at the age of 35 to win the title of ABA from 1946 after a long release. Like Pat, Tony Stuart has never changed a professional. Floyd said about his great rival: “Tony was probably the best ponderous I’ve ever met. But for him I could set a record of ABA titles.”
Later, Pat reached the mark of a class A judge, retiring on the basis of medical, before he could get a star license. He made an indelible boxing trail, but admitted that he regretted that he had not changed a professional.
If Floyd and Stuart tried their hand in paid ranks, the British heavyweight king Tommy Farr could have two stern national rivals.