“Life is the best leftist I’ve ever seen, although some say it’s Charlie White from Chicago.”

This is a quote from Ernest HemingwayFight with the writer’s Nobel Prize and at least he should say that. When I read this line for the first time a few years ago, I assumed that Charlie White is an invention, a kind of everyone who symbolized awards around the world. But it turns out that he wasn’t. White lived, breathed and spilled his blood into the penal rings of pre -war America. He was indeed a terrifying leftist and despite the settlements in Chicago, he was British by birth.

Born in a Jewish Russian immigrant family in Liverpool on March 25, 1891, Charlie’s real name is Charles Anchowitz. He came to America with his parents at the age of seven and settled in the Jewish ghetto in the west side of Chicago. At the age of 13, Charlie arranged tuberculosis. He was sent to the gym in Chicago Bill O’Connell and conducted a course of exercises to improve his health. Treatment seemed to work. Soon he was free from tuberculosis, and under the care of O’Connell he discovered a talent for boxing.

Charlie had his first professional fight in the middle of teenagers, adopting the name White in tribute to Tommy White, the highest weight from Chicago Feather in the 1890s. The string of knockouts won mainly by the left hook brought him the nickname “Left Hook Charlie”, and soon mixed in a world -class company.

In December 1909 he lost the eight round with the prevailing world champion in the weight of feathers, Abe Atell, who “was forced to expand to the border” according to Union Sacramento. The article noted that the decision of the judge for Attell “was unpopular”. They met again nine months later in the fight for “without decision”. It was another loved one, but Atell did enough to make a decision in the newspaper.

At that time, some US jurisdictions banned point sentences, and the boxer could officially win only through knockout or stop. This was to combat the plants, but instead of the official result, the winner of the competition for full distance was settled by Sportswriters in the newspapers the next day. Some world champions even insisted on fighting for a lack of decision-making to assist protect their titles-a great disappointment of their contenders.

In May 1914, 23-year-old White faced Willie Ritchie from San Francisco behind the world crown and dominated the fight. “I was generated and exceeded,” Ritchie admitted. White won the decision in the newspaper, but the fight went a distance, so Willie kept his title.

The next shot of Charlie at a slight distinction was against the successor of Ritchie, Freddie Welsh from Pontipridd. The couple fought four times in 1914–1916, and White won one decision in the newspaper and lost the other three fights. Despite his apparent fist advantage, the Welshman developed vigorous respect for Charlie’s left hook. “Keep your right hand all the time and go to him with your left. Never employ the right,” Brit Matt Wells warned in a letter before Matt’s first fight with Charlie in 1915. “I felt one of his left on my head in one of our Milwaukee battles and I thought the building had come.”

Benny Leonard, one of the best defensive boxers of all time, would recognize this useful advice when he got to know the wearing ring, but still unsafe 29-year-old White in July 1920. In the fifth 10-round lightweight title fight, White planted his legendary left hook on Leonard’s jaw and overturned him through Lines. But Leonard got back on the ring-non-citizens say with the assist of his brother-and turned the tables white with the ninth round of KO. It was the only knockout loss of Chicagoan’s career.

Charlie-Kwyóó was also challenging Jacek Britton for a world-class crown and won two, lost two and drew one of the two-time title in the twenty Johnny Dundee-he had unlucky so as not to win the title himself. It deserves to be remembered much more than Punch Hemingway.

One of the largest ticket sellers who left London in the seventies Alan Salter Peckham. He was an thrilling warrior and although his record of 13 wins from 32 competitions does not look very good on paper, he was rated as high as the third in the British class of lightweight weight (currently super airy), and also boxed the British title of this weight. Alan born in 1950 died only nine days after his 35th birthday, having in a coma seven years earlier after a tragic accident in 1978.

Alan had about 30 or 40 amateur competitions during boxing for dogs Kennel Hill BC and South Norwood BC. He did not achieve much as an amateur, because he did not train properly and liked to go out with his friends. Because he needed money, he tried a professional game, wondering that it would be better to match his style. Initially, he signed a contract with Dickie Waterhouse, but his continuation of undisciplining with alcohol led to winning only seven of his first 16 competitions. In 1975 Bn The article described his road works: “I returned home in the early hours, I drunk as a sack and run out. I have to be the only warrior that has ever been drunk responsible for the tracksuit.”

On February 25, 1974, Salter fought Dennis Harbon from Bradford in Manor Place Baths on an act crowned by his partner Pat McCormack. The photo accompanying this article shows the result, and Alan stands above Harbon before he finished it in three rounds. I think this is a perfect picture – a testimony of this wonderful photographer, Derek Rowe, who rarely left the fight at that time. It perfectly reflects the atmosphere of miniature boxing in London in the death of oldschool places, swimming baths and town halls, which maintained sport for the previous 30 or 40 years. Alan boxed mostly – in the Town Hall of Shoreditch and Batterssea, in York Hall and six times in Manor Place Baths, the most local for him and where he was a great favorite.

After passing at Phil Coren’s stable in 1974, and Kenny Lynas as his trainer, Alan became more devoted and slowly turned his career. He began with a good victory over the previously undefeated Tommy Dunn. After shaking the early penalty, Alan went through to overwhelm the warrior of reading in four rounds Bn described as “stunning nervousness.” After not leaving in three consecutive competitions, Alan was tailored to Joey Singleton, the British master, in the 10-Rund at The Royal Albert Hall at night Johnny Franham, located Chris Finnegan in their first fight. Alan gave the Singleton a real fight, and when Judge Roland Dakin raised Singleton’s hand at the end, the place was in the scope.

Alan finally arrived, and for promoters a ready British fight for the title had to be organized. This took place four months later, after the Singleton recovered after hand injuries in the first competition. This time it was different. Singleton was a very elegant warrior and seriously took up the challenge of Salter. The fight was one -sided, and Salter’s game did not match the skills he had to face and was detained in nine rounds. In the next competition, against Des Morrison, Joey won the belt and deserved it.

Salter’s career came out after his title challenge and returned to cleaning the windows, built a successful round on the streets, where he was so loved. Three years later he was involved in a terrible accident when he was thrown through the sliding door of his van. He never recovered after terrifying brain damage, remaining in a coma until he died of pneumonia in 1985. Only a compact life lived, but he lived in full.

After World War II, the British audience wanted emotions and entertainment like never before. After six years of trauma and disabilities, they came to dance rooms, cinemas and sports stadiums with feverish pleasure and boxing – then Sport Mas – was one of the biggest draws.

Fighters who dragged crowds – then, as now – were those who promised color and emotions. And at the end of the 1940s. Great Britain a delicate division boasted a boxer whose performances provided both. Billy Thompson was a active, tenacious fighter who rarely took a backward step. Turning Pro in the year in which the war ended in 1945, for fans of fighting was an ideal antidote for darkness, which he embraced Great Britain for so long.

Born in Modern Silksworth, Sunderland, in 1925, Billy moved to Thurnscoe, near Rotherham, with his family at the age of five. As a boxer, the student won the title of Yorkshire school for two years, and when he left the school to work at Hickleton Maine Colliery, like his father, he said that he could train in the newly built Collier gym.

He lied about his age – claiming that he was 17 years aged, not 16 – to enter the northern senior poviat championships and defeated a number of older opponents to take the title. In 1943 he won the feather crown of the northern poviat, and in 1944 he founded a seal for his amateur fame, winning the delicate title of ABA. He planned to defend his crown in 1945, but he was kept away from the championship due to an ear injury.

The chest, shot Yorkshireman, could stay longer in amateurs, but his father was exhausted from the pits after the expansion of silveriasis, and Billy needed to support his family. It was said that his father returned to the extraction of coal after two or three years of regeneration, but Billy tried to make sure that his dad would never have to leave the mine again.

Thompson became a professional with a youthful, developing London manager Jarvis Astaire and put 34 fights in his first two years in paid ranks. Billy was 30-2-1, when he faced Stan Hawthorne of North Shields on Anfield in October 1947 in the case of a free British delicate title.

The fight was a slaughterhouse, Billy attacked a man with North Shields with uncontrollable cruelty from the opening bell. Somehow Hawthorne survived a lot of knocks to survive in the third round when judge Peter Muir came in. Thompson won the crown in less than seven minutes.

Billy maintained the title for less than four years, seeing the challenges of Harry Hughes from Wishaw and Tommy McGovern from Bermondsey. Thompson was perfectly boxed to capture the European crown from Italy Roberto Proieti in February 1948 and kept it against Pierre Montane (France), Josef Preys (Belgium) and Hughes, before he lost the title with low disqualification of disqualification for Kid Dussart from Belgium in July 1949.

During his height to the best, Billy looked great, but after winning the titles, his form became unpredictable and tried to make a delicate. In 1951, Thompson fought as a full Heelter, but he came down to delicate defense against McGovern. Pale, forced to the burden of the spirit of Billy Thompson, the world of boxing knew that he was dressed by the first real blow of the fight, and Ko’d in 45 seconds. After a few consecutive attacks in welterweight, Billy retired at the age of 27. He was the first post -war master who won the Lonsdale belt, and more importantly, was able to buy his family a farm in Thurnscoe with earnings from the ring.

Thompson died in January 2009, at the age of 83. At the funeral, his nurtured Lonsdale belt was decorated with a casket as a proper reminder of his achievements.