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Yesterday’s heroes: Slajging Stanley Giners from the 1920s and 30.

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Yesterday's heroes: Slajging Stanley Giners from the 1920s and 30.

The theme in which the parrot still lies in the fact that in the 1930s, when there were so many professional fighters up and down, virtually every city had stable fighters, never more than in cities and villages from the workers’ class in Great Britain. Take, for example, Stanley. Unless you know the north-eastern one, it is probably a place you have never heard of, and yet in 1925–1935 he hosted over 400 professional tournaments, both in the room and outside, in seven different places.

Stanley is between Durham and Newcastle and of course he was in the heart of Durham Coalfield. Even today, the population is only about 30,000, but when it was boxing, the population was even smaller, but it caused swaths of good fighters, and virtually all of them were miners.

Fifty hours down every week, and then 10-round on Friday evening was what they survived. They did not have time to train in the same way as boys today, but life – clearly more tough – made them difficult and capable of fighting.

This place has always known difficulties and tragedy. In 1909 he lost 160 best men and boys in a PIT disaster, and several of the following professionals lost their fathers and uncles in this disaster. Stanley was a compact community in which everyone knew each other, until any number of pits surrounding the city was a great competition when a boxer from one mine banned the boy from another.

This inevitably led to the “Pitman Championships”, and Stanley had more than a few of them. My photo shows Barney Whitney, dazzling in his trilby, and looking at every inch, boxing manager and promoter, surrounded by his boys, all of whom come from the city. Three of them, Miles Connelly (sitting on the left), Joe Broughy and Teddy Joyce (both standing) claimed that the title of Pitmen in Northlleland and Durham and everyone was highly qualified men with a great blow. The second boy, Jimmy Rogers, a flying weight, never achieved the same highlands as his stalls, but he was one of many similar boys who created habitual Whitney bills.

The fight against Sullivan, the father of the British middleweight champion in the 1950s, Johnny Sullivan, moved to Stanley in 1931 and led weekly concerts from his boxing stand until 1933, and because he was born in December 1932, I think it is likely that Johnny was born in the city. Fighting with Sullivan, from Preston and whose real name was Hallmark, conducted as average weight and lightweight in 1927–1936, meeting men such as Reggie Meen, Con O’Kelly, Jack London and Harry Reeve.

During the service of the stand, he also regularly signed up at the modern ST James Hall in Newcastle. He often advanced on Saturday evening, and then at the top of the Newcastle bill next Monday.

Another former fighter, George Harwood from nearby Craghead, about whom I wrote in a separate article from the years 2020, also ran a stand in Stanley. As a result of his boxing career, George passed the blind and tried to earn life as a promoter in 1932–1933 and found it tough. Depression began until then, and even if there were many boys ready to fight for remuneration, there was not enough spare money in the city to guarantee the audience, especially with Whitney, Sullivan and others, also promoting at the same time.

The last concert for many years took place in Stanley at the Greyhound stadium in 1949 to, 40 years later in June 1989, Glenn McCrora won the free title of IBF Cruiser Wweight in the city, defeating Patrick Lumumby at Louisa Center. This place was built on the site of Louis Colliera and therefore provided a matching relationship between the best man who has ever fought in the city and many teenage boys, all minerals who preceded him.

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On this day: Juan Manuel Marquez stunns the boxing world

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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.

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Jim Cooper – Henry’s twin brother

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Henry and Jim Cooper

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.

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Terry Stable Stable Boxing news

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Terry Lawless stable

What a fantastic set of fighters in the photo this week. You can say what you like in Terry Lawless and his relationship with Barrett and Levene promotional syndicate, but he certainly knew how to produce world -class fighters. Before the appearance of Frank Warren in the early 1980s, these three promoters had a virtual thrill at the highest level of British boxing and were responsible for most of the most significant programs that took place at that time. They regularly exhibited regular concerts on Tuesday at Royal Albert Hall or Wembley Arena and at least one of the boys appeared unlike the majority, not all, bills that took place in 1977–1981.

Terry Lawless began as a boxing manager in 1956, and his gym was on the first floor of Royal Oak Pub in Canning Town for many years. The pub became a paradise for East Enders who liked a mug, as well as their boxing. Lawless learned lines as an assistant to Al Phillips, Aldgate Tiger, a man who led a very successful stable of fighters after his own days. Lawless was quite a successful businessman with a number of stores in retail, but boxing was his first love, and until the 1970s he was probably the leading and most renowned coach in Great Britain, and the boys were a cream of his crops.

Most readers will easily recognize Charlie Magri, Jim Watt and Maurice Hope, but I wonder how many of you can exchange them all of you? On the left is John L Gardner, British, Commonwealth and European Heavyweight Champion. John was a very decent heavyweight, but when his career fell between the career of Joe Bugner and Frank Bruno, it’s simple to forget him, but I loved the way he demolished Paul Sykes in 1979, and the game competition gave Jimmy Juvenile in the same year.

Next to John is a great Jimmy Batten. This boy was an outstanding student, one of the best since the war, and more than he met his potential as a professional. Batten was involved in one of the most exhilarating battles to the British title at a 15-round lightweight course and won the Lonsdale belt, and each competition ended at a distance. Let’s not forget about his scrap with great Roberto Duran. Charlie Magri It is unique, and its achievements are very well known, one of the best London fly scales. On both sides of Charlie are Johnny Waldron and Jimmy Flint. Waldron was a very good amateur who started in Beccles, where he won many titles before he moved to Fairburn House BC, and then Repton in the early seventies. During his stay in Repton he won the title in London in 1975. As a professional, Johnny never did it, and after a tiny career only 12 competitions, of which he lost only one, he made a brand on an unlicensed circumference. Johnny was the right tough man, and his life story is colorful.

Flint was one of my favorite fighters, he was a destructive hit in a featherweight and very exhilarating, and took his second career as an actor. Maurice Hope was an excellent owner of the WBC belt in the lightweight of weight. He had two great scraps with the rocky Mattiola, and the warrior of Caliban Wilfred Benítez eventually detoped him, and I think that his achievements are less remembered than today because he was a great warrior. The last group is Jim Watt. Jim signed a contract with Lawless in 1976, and Terry turned his career, leading him to the WBC title in just a few years. What a set of competitions for you boxers contrary to their counterparts today.

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