Spinks v Tangstad

Other than Tommy Farr, Henry Cooper Joe Bugner & Lennox Lewis they've all been fair to poor.

SONNY LIDTON

headaches after sparring. stopped boxing because of them.

I've used it in the past and recently went back to it. I was quite too aback to see that it had changed totally. It was very easy to use before, now it's a total ball ache. On my PC I can only read the pages by pressing "PDF" as the other option doesn't load. A classic case of "if it ...

Jake Paul

Type "chronicling america" in to google. a site will come up which is a database of American newspapers that have been digitized. It's a great resource.

Sooner he retires the better, but saying that, they're all like it nowadays. Constant waffling. I watch boxkng with the sound off now. They even talk constantly on the snooker now. Terrible.

He could have been so much better than he turned out to be. Drugs ruined him.

Charles Martin
Michael Bent
Bruce Seldon
Fracesco Damiani

Not real champs, just WB whatever belt holders but for the sake of this post...

The Ring should take the belt off him for defending against total nobodies. Simple as that.

It was on BskyB in Uk at a time when hardly anyone had sattelite tv or you had to put your suit and dickie bow on to go and watch it at a closed circuit screening at 3am !

It was on BskyB in Uk at a time when hardly anyone had sattelite tv or you had to put your suit and dickie bow on to go and watch it at a closed circuit screening at 3am !

I was very pleased when Turki announced that he was bringing back The Ring, especially in print form. £60 for twelve issues seemed very good when I went on the website to subscribe. However, when you enter your location at checkout the purchase price jumps to a whopping £155. Postage to the UK is 95...

He was the best of his era and that is all we can say for certain. However, we must take into account the fact that Sullivan's best years were under the rules of The London Prize Ring (bare knuckle). Sullivan was a very tough, rough handful in his prime according to contemporary reports. However, he...

All of these questions are answered in a new book which was published in October 2024: The Mighty Atom - The Life of Boxing Legend Jimmy Wilde by Adrian Knott. It is the definitive biography of the great man with a foreword by The Sun's Colin Hart. It is published by Pitch and is now available on Am...

Don Curry

£150,000 weed set up

These will be almost impossible to find. Louis himself would not have kept a record. If you are really determined to find the missing exhibitions your best bet is to go through the old newspapers. Even then, many will not be recorded. It is important to remember that Nat Fleischer got a lot of his i...

owner of the gym I went to had a lucrative "grow" in the adjoining building, yet the gym genuinely helped a lot of decent kids gain confidence and was a good place for them to meet other kids.
Funny old world...

Many gyms, amateur and pro, are used as "fronts" for dodgy activity. You don't have to be around boxing very long to realise this. Tanning shops and barbers shops are known for it too.

Most people don't have Sky Sports. That is why most people in the street would not recognise a world champion if they fell over them. It was very different in the 80s. You could win the British title back then and you would be on Wogan the following night and Celebrity Squares the following week! Ev...

20 million people used to watch because it was on BBC1 and there were only three other channels available in the mid 80s

SORRY !
As VERITON wrote earlier NOT handsofstone. my apoligies

McGuigan is far from "an absolute boxing legend" as called by handsofstone earlier in this forum. On the domestic front he never fought Pat Cowdell circa 1983/4. Granted he had a very good win against Juan Laporte but was cleverly matched against the ancient Pedroza by Eastwood who was wel...