When Lonsdale’s belts were first awarded in 1909, the first three three went to Welshmen. Freddie Welsh from Pontypridd won the first BELT competition in the history when he defeated Johnny Summers at the National Sporting Club to win the lithe title on November 8, 1909. In February 1910, Jim Driscoll from Cardiff Seaman Arthur Hayes to win a featherweight champion. The third Welshman, Tom Thomas from Carncelyn, won the free medium weight title in December 1909, when he knocked out Charlie Wilson from Notting Hill in two rounds on December 20, 1909, both Welsh and Driscoll are legendary fighters who are well remembered today, but what about Thomas?

Unfortunately, Tom Thomas is practically forgotten, but he was a great warrior. I suspect that the main reason why few know him today is that only 20 months after he became the second owner of the Lonsdale belt, he died at the age of only 31 years venerable.

Thomas began in his hometown of southern Wales in 1899 and quickly considered the best medium weight in the valleys. He lived on an isolated farm just a few kilometers from Pontipridd and although he was not a miner himself, most boys with whom he had to fight in many Welsh rings at that time.

For the first time he gained importance in 1903, when he won the average weight competition at the National Sporting Club and remained in London for the rest of this year, winning useful victories in relation to some of the better weight of the middle capital. He returned to Wales in 1904 for four competitions, all of which he won at a distance. His experience in London told him that it was a place if he wanted to go to the championships, so in 1906 he resisted in London to realize these ambitions, and in the year he defeated Pat O’keefe to become a master of British medium weight.

Over the next five years, until his premature death, Thomas was harassed by rheumatism. This disease almost destroyed his aspirations to become the world champion in medium weight. He was matched with Willie Lewis, Harry Lewis and Eddie McGorta, all of whom were leading American pretenders at the time, but in each case his training was disturbed by his illness. Writing his obituary, John Murray, editor BnHe said that “he just couldn’t train. He was not able to move, so he was forced to pay to his bitter regret. Unfortunately for Tom, he did not like to publish the real reason why he was forced to refuse competitions. He was so often obliged to clarify that rheumatism attacked him again, that he began to be afraid, that people could suspect that he was exposing it only as an excuse. “

Despite the suffering so much because of the disease that usually affects people, when they are much older, Thomas still managed to win very decent victories, and in 16 competitions in which he fought after Master, he lost only two, against Jim Sullivan in November 1910, when he lost the title and against Bandsman Rice in his last competition, when Tom was not qualified in the 18th round in the 20th round in the 20th round in the 20th round in the 18th round in the 18th round in Wonderland. All his wins in this period came over space and most of them lasted only two or three rounds. He was undertaken by Bartley Connelly, another decent American, in the 20-round in Liverpool in 1908.

When he won the belt, he did it with clinical precision as Bn The report reveals: “Thomas, with his left hook to the chin, sent Wilson back through the ring. Tom jumped behind him and crashed his right position, and Wilson turned and dripped flat on his back with his arms pulled out. The deadly number has begun. “

Destitute Tom Thomas, at the time of his death, negotiations that would be in line with Billy Papke. It would be engaging.

After the departure of Steve Hiser Bem, Amateur Boxing lost the third of the three titans who dominated the London coaching stage for half a century.

Like Mick Carney (Fitzroy Lodge) and Tony Burns (Repton), who both preceded, Hiser came to embody one club – a fisherman in Bermondsey, on the southern side of the Thames, near Tower Bridge.

Hiser survived the hospital spell at the beginning of this year, but died in a dream on May 12. He was 82 years ancient.

Interestingly, until recently he still went to the Fisher gym, where he produced the litany of the best names for years, including Lloyd Honeyghan (who called Hiser the best trainer he had ever had), David Walker, Mickey Cantwell, Tim Driscoll, Matthew Thirlwall, Ted Cheeseman and Denzel Bentley.

Fisher ABC said in a statement: “Today we mourn the loss of Steve Hiser Bem, a beloved trainer and mentor who devoted his life to the fisherman. He was a real legend in the world of boxing, and his contribution to sport will never be forgotten.

“Steve was more than a trainer – he was a friend, a father of his father and a role model for countless teenage boxers for decades in the club. He was always there to offer tips and support, both in the ring and outside of it, and his unwavering sacrifice for a fisherman was really inspiring.

“We pray for his wife Sandra, his daughter and further family in this hard time.”

Hiser joined the Fisher Downside Youth Club (to give the institution a full name) at the age of 15 in 1957, quickly impressing his trail. In fact, he defeated Tony Burns when they were fresh facial students, but his aggressive style will always be better suitable for professionals.

His professional career would be compact – only two years and a month – and frustrating. By debuting in January 1963, he won his first eight and reached the level of eight rounds, when the defeat of cutting the eye in one of them led him to name this day.

He joined the Fisher coaching team in 1973 and which turned out to be an inspired movement. A few years ago, the club’s website contained an article presenting Steve’s philosophy.

“Steve Hiser understands that teenage boxers must accept work ethics, respect for others and the gym discipline and utilize it to succeed in life. It gives equal time and respect of the harsh novices “straight from the street” about the country’s champion. “

This last sentence is so true. I remember meeting Steve at the exhibition Ba East London Ba in November 2019. It was a frosty night in Leyton, and Fisher had only one boxer on the bill: a long-lasting novice called Hassan Hashim in three-last. Steve was then in the behind schedule 1970s, but of course he considered Hashim worthy of his time like every master.

No wonder that in 2012 Hiser received the British Empire medal (Bem) for his services for teenage people in the Southwark London district.

Cheesman said about his former coach: “He saved a lot of life and made sure that they had a good life in Bermondsey. He was like a dad for many of them. He gave the children himself. Even those who did not have a major career helped them have morality and discipline. “

Thanks to his compact and powerful construction, Steve was a striking, which fought aggressively – but as a trainer he was knowledgeable and sufficiently adapted enough to consider the natural abilities of the boxer.

So Steve always waxed lyrically about Tim Driscoll, a lightweight stylist who took up boys’ clubs, and who would challenge WBO Pióro-Piór as a professional.

And when Steve participated in the Belfast World Amateur championships in 2001, he was particularly impressed by Cuban Southpaw Damian Austin, who flew a number of opponents to gold at 71 kg.

“He is such a stunning applicant, with a great rhythm,” said Steve, who was excited, seeing so many boxers of the highest quality in action.

Steve Hiser leaves the widow, Sandra, daughters Natalie and Karen and his further family. Boxing news Send the deepest condolences.

In boxing, there is a saying that if the promoter wants to make a compact fortune from sport, he will start better with a enormous one. Major Arnold Wilson was one promoter who played everything at one massive event and lost everything in it.

Wilson was the first hero of World War. He won the Military Cross after he crawled into the nobody’s land, when under fire to save the lives of his two wounded soldiers. He was part of the original Liverpool consortium, which opened the celebrated Pudsey Street stadium in 1911, and from 1920 he worked closely with CB Cochrane promoter at some main programs in London. After studying trade, he branched himself as a great promoter. Among the many enormous programs he was promoted, was the farce match of Georges Carpentier and Joe Beckett at Olympia in 1923.

Wembley Stadium opened his doors for the first time in the same year. First of all, the Wembley football stadium was also used at the British Empire Empire exhibition from 1924 and during this festival Wilson rented a premises to organize an international heavyweight competition, which, as hopes, will fill a place on capacity and earn a fortune. The exhibition attracted huge crowds from all over the country, and Wilson tried to utilize this captivity.

At that time, the stadium sat over 100,000, and Wilson thought that the heavyweight competition between American American and Jacek Bloomfield would arouse sufficient interest to complete this plan.

Tommy Gibbons was brought to face Bloomfield and on paper it looked like a winner. Gibbons passed full 15 with Jacek Dempsey for the world’s heavyweight title of the previous year and Bloomfield, as a prevailing British heavyweight champion, and the man with a great blow was popular among his colleagues Londoners. But it wasn’t a guaranteed spinner of money or a thriller. In the end, Gibbons was 33 years aged, and his competition with Dempsey was terrible, while Bloomfield took boxes for the title of British heavyweight in 1923 against Frank Goddard to be disqualified in two rounds for hitting the opponent when he was on canvas. Bloomfield put Goddard twice and looked like a winner. The boxing audience was not impressed, both with a fight and stupid Bloomfield.

Nevertheless, Wilson used a chance and was ready to pay Gibbon 10,000 pounds, at that time a huge bag for his trouble. Bloomfield was to receive 6000 pounds, and the total circulation on the event was about 27,000 pounds. Wilson maintained low ticket prices, gambling that he would attract the enormous swaths of random observers, the people he needed if he hoped to fill 100,000 places.

The weather that day was great radiant, but only 27,000 appeared, and the entire episodes of the Wembley stadium were completely empty. Regardless of optimism, it could have been that Bloomfield could defeat Gibbons, also suddenly on earth. After even the first round, in which Bloomfield effectively defended and replaced the impacts, the second round was a disaster. He was dotted three times and after saving the bell quickly finished in the third.

The day after the Gibbons competition, which received only 3000 pounds of his purse, he said that he would not require any balance from him as long as the initial warriors, including Phil Scott, Tommy Milligan and Alf Mancini, did not receive payment. Five days later he went to the States, and his last act before entering the ship was to spend Wilson with a written call for 8000 pounds. This did not turn out to be effective, because four months later Wilson was announced bankrupt with assets of 300 pounds, and liabilities with a total value of 17,000 pounds.

The Wembley stadium was not reused for boxing only in 1935 and nothing more could be heard from the unfortunate major.