Boxing History
Yesterday’s heroes: like Dave Crowley, he appointed a rating
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By Miles Templeton
Ordinary readers will know that I like to remember the ring career of some of the less known British champions since past days. This week it is Dave Crowley’s turn of Clerkenwell.
In the seventies, Dave was still a very well-known former Boxer, regular in London Ex-Boxers Association, a slightly partial actor in the main films with Tony Curtis and Errola Flynna, and a beloved and popular character with some stories to tell.
Dave changed professionals aged 18 in 1929. His father died during the last stages of the Great War, and Dave had to bring money to his family home. Like many others, he began in six runes in petite rooms of London, boxing at the bottom of the bill. Another kid among thousands, boxing for peanuts. But Dave stood out and in two years, after losing only four out of 47 competitions, he completed up to 15 rounds of competitions at the summit.
In 1932 he won the title of Bantamweight in the southern area and for the first time passed the title of British featherweight in 1934 Bn Called “a great battle for the brains”. He drifted in 1935 and early 1936, winning most of his competitions before he decided that the United States was a place for him. I am waiting for another crack in the British title was not for Dave, why simply not go straight to the title of world champion?
In 1936, the World Penal Scale Championships were a hotch-jotion of the confusion, and the Recent York Sports Commission would recognize Mike Belloise as a master, as well as Petey Sarron Association of Boxing. Many masters of the same weight are not only a current invention, but it was.
When Crowley came to the States, he was unknown there. Both Benny Sharkey from Newcastle and Dick Corbett from Bethnal Green were evaluated in the top ten world by the ring, but without even a place for the British master, Tarleton, Dave Crowley was nobody. He had to fight to bet and had to win. In April, he defeated the journeyman, Al Gilette, in Star Casino in Recent York, which brought him an early chance to Belloise in the 10-order on Long Island.
How Crowley managed to get this chance, against the master, is a mystery, but he certainly did not win him. Under the headline “How Dave Crowley created a rating” BN announced that “Crowley made a good impression with fans with his skillful boxing and the desire to transfer the fight to the up-to-date title holder. From the very beginning he took Belloise. “Two men drew, and along with Crowley now installed on the seventh in the ranking, the rematch for the title was natural, and only three months later Dave was counted in ninth place, claiming that he was fouled after exhibiting a huge performance against Belloise in Madison Square Garden.
After returning to these banks, Dave defeated both George Tzelewl and Harry Mizler in the British delicate title of eliminators before convincingly defeated Jimmy Walsh at Anfield Football Ground to win the British title. His reign was low because he had a misfortune to be against Eric Boon, one of the best British masters with this weight. They fought twice and Crowley was knocked out every time.
When the war broke out in 1939, maybe it was the perfect time to cross Crowley, but fought until 1946, taking into account 57 subsequent competitions and winning a delicate title along the way in the southern area. Dave died in 1974, and Eric Boon, paying tribute, said that “Dave was one of the greatest characters in the fighting game.” Leba paid his own tribute using Dave’s image on his ties and blisters.
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Version – Marco Antonio Barrera wins a furious and electrifying rubber match over Erik Morales
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Marco Antonio Barrera in MD 12 Erik Morales
November 27, 2004; MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV
Mexican warriors Barrera and Morales ended their epic trilogy in a properly urgent style, creating another unforgettable war. Entering in the start, in the case of the Super Feather WBC Morales belt, the series stood with one winner per item. Morales won the initial meeting in Super-Bantam in 2000, and Barrera secured the creation of a rematch in 2002 in a featherweight-the decisions were questioned. Accordingly, the verdict in the rubber match also caused a debate. As in the previous two meetings, bitter enemies got involved in a furious fight, and the electrifying 11 round turned out to be particularly cruel. Ultimately, Barrera went to the top and adapted Morales’s achievement, becoming the three world letter.
Do you know? At that time, WBO Feather Highland Scott Harrison was interested in an observer in Ringside. He hoped to catch the winner.
Watch out for: In the middle of nine, the fighters are involved in the clinch, and Barrera is bursting morale at the back of the head with a legal apparatus. Uninvited by his opponent, Morales refuses to touch Barrera gloves when the judge was asked.
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On this day: Felix Trinidad and Fernando Vargas are sharing, fouls and exhilarating violence
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May 29, 2025
Felix Trinidad in RSF 12 Fernando Vargas
December 2, 2000; Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV
A lot was expected about the battle of unification of power between Trinidad and Vargas and, fortunately, did not disappoint. Trinidad, who defended his title WBA, jumped out of the blocks and twice started in the opener twice. Vargas returned a favor in the fourth round, sending Trinidad to a mat. Even worse for Felix, he was also deducted to a low blow. The same violation meant that the next point was taken from Trinidad in seventh place, before Vargas lost the point after a closer south of the border in 10. Constant violence with the view lasted to 12., in which the trio knocking up from Trinidad finally ended to a perfectly exhilarating competition.
Do you know? Former victim of Trinidad, Kevin Lueshing, called Boxing news Offices to discuss a brutal conclusion to fight. He said: “It caused a terrible memory of how he finished me.”
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This is the latest in the occasional series about the heavyweight champions of the world and their visits to Great Britain. In previous articles I wrote about Primo Carner and Langford himself, and this week I will look at Jacek Johnson and his British concert tour of 1908. Jackjohnson came to Great Britain on Monday, April 27 from the States, when the German steamer, Kronprinz Wilhelm, did in Plymouth. He was accompanied by his manager, Fitzpatrick himself, and two men immediately followed the train from Plymouth to the Paddington station in London, checked in at the Adelphi Hotel, and in the evening he visited the British Botker, in the field of eight circles, to see 20 rounds.
Johnson was in Great Britain to hunt Tommy Burns, also visiting London, to force him to defend the title, which, as we know, took place in Sydney eight months later. Two men exchanged words in Sporting Press and Burns, who stayed in Jacek’s Castle, in a pub in Hampstead, immediately published 1000 pounds from The Sporting Life, stating that if the Johnson camp was fitting to this amount, the fight was turned on. Fitzpatrick opposed the terms for which Burns insisted on the proposed match and refused to cover money. Johnson challenged the shooting moir, but it was rejected when Moir drew a color line and refused to meet the American.
Johnson spent the majority of this summer, appearing in various music rooms in Great Britain, boxing at exhibitions with a wide British heavyweight, including Jewey Smith, Jam Styles and Fred Drummond. In those days it was quite lucrative for the highest level boxers. Then he was tailored to Ben Taylor (Woolwich) to a 20-round competition in Plymouth. Jack trained on a fight at Regent’s Park and at the Junior High School at the National Sporting Club. He left the Waterloo station on July 30 to go to Plymouth for a fight, which was to take place the next day in Cosmopolitan Gymnasium, Mill Street. A vast contingent of fans welcomed him in the city of Devon, which at that time was the center of the fight of the great importance.
The competition, as you can expect, turned out to be one -sided when Johnson defeated Taylor with ease, raising him 11 times in front of a judge called Halt in the eighth round. After the duel, Johnson praised Taylor at his break, stating that he never met a player during his entire career. Later that night at the Mount Pleasant Hotel gathered at the Mount Pleasant Hotel, near the cosmopolitan, where Taylor founded his training camp, and Jack appeared to give Taylor again congratulations to Taylor for organizing such a good competition.
Johnson took part in a series of exhibitions in Dublin, and then in Bristol, where he participated in the Bristol City Vs Everton football match in Ashton Gate – his first experience in sport. Until September 7, he returned to London and announced that in October he was adapted to Box Mike Schreck at the National Sporting Club. On September 14, Schreck manager Jimmy Kelly was announced that the fight was not turned off because Schreck could not be relied to get to a decent condition for the fight.
Together with Burns in Australia, Johnson remained high and desiccated, without a significant fight, so the National Sports Club organized a competition against Sam Langford, which took place at the club on November 9. What would be a coup d’état – a match between the two best bulky scales in the world – but unfortunately this did not happen. On Monday, September 21, Johnson left the Charing Cross Station on the planned Łódź train at 13.20 to France to start a long journey to Australia, where he finally met and defeated Tommy Burns three months later.

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