Jimmy Brown was the top middleweight to champion Tony Mundine in 1970. He was unbeaten and had wins over Dick Blair, Errol McIvor and Steve Vik. How good was Jimmy. Could have given Tony a
competitive fight?

Noel had his last fight against veteran Kevin Rose who was coming off a KO win over Kevin Ross and had his best win over Carmen Rotolo who was later Aussie champ.. Noel was as good as younger brother Greg but he was handy

Colin boxed from 1953 to 1961 and had the gym in Doonside in 1972. I lost contact with Colin but he would be 84 years of age now. A champion bloke.

Colin Bell was a good southpaw lightweight who had a 20 win 6 loss record and had wins over Louis Magnifico and Dick White but lost to David Floyd and American Don Johnson. I met Colin when he was training boxers at a gym in Power street, Doonside. Colin had future Aussie champ Shane Patrick there a...

In 1984 at Mario Guera’s Transport Shed in Griffith Jeff Malcolm outpointed Francisco Ferrera of the Philippines over ten rounds. I was there and impressed how clever the “ Flash” boxed. The promoter was future Hall of Famer Grantlee Kieza and his mate Arthur Stanley who is currently the CEO of Bank...

I wasn’t at that fight but Jeff said Frank was a fighter that was very tough but on the night he boxed Jeff referee Charkey Ramon was forced to DQ3 Frank.

The best referee in Australia is arguably Brad Vocale who is still performing at top level in his sixties

George Barnes was interviewed about his fight with Freddie Dawson and he said. One of the judges gave me the fight by one point. He was a good friend of mine. Ron Walden - he was head of the police. George told me on another occasion that he respected Freddie Dawson as a fighter but not as a man. Ge...

That’s Boxing “Video was a masterpiece on Australian Boxing that was produced by Graham McNiece and written by Grantlee KIEZA with narration by Mike Gibson. Fantastic clips of old fights in pristine condition. Congratulations and thank you to Graham McNiece and Grantlee Kieza also Mike Gibson

Shane Patrick sadly passed away in 2004 in Hong Kong at the age of 51 years. I travelled there with a mate of mine to try and see him before he passed but he unfortunately died before I arrived. I trained Shane for a few fights. Des Bloyd passed in 2013 age 79 years in Sydney. One of the true charac...

Johnny Allan aka Allan Wensley was a welterweight contender in 1960. He had good wins over Vince Took and Graham Lightfoot but was defeat on points over twelve by Kieth Lewis in his final contest I met him in 1979 at StMarys Band Club. I was with former Aussie champ Shane Patrick, Lou Cruz aka Rod C...

Ross McAnally was only a little bloke but was a bull terrier in street fights. He was at the Local Inn in West Ryde in 1965 when he turned on me over nothing and we took the fight outside in the car park . I remember he hit me and split my head open. It was discovered he had knuckle dusters on his h...

I had Lou Williams who boxed Kid Preston at the Westside hotel in Laverton in 1983. Preston beat Williams. Dave Russell made his debut that night against Sydney heavyweight Leo Moore. I remember most of the fans in the audience had shaven heads the same as Dave. Two of Kid Preston best fights were t...

Back in the 1960’s I had a mate by the name of Ross McAnally who lived in Dundas Valley and his father was a very good featherweight from the 1930’s. His name was Billy McAnally. He was good enough to box a fifteen round draw with world class Merv Darkie Blandon in 1934.. Blandon had previously beat...

AUSSIE BOXING IN COVID-19 YEAR 2020 Australian boxing saw little activity due to the COVID-19 pandemic but in the later part of the year Australia’s biggest pay-per-view boxer Tim Tszyu attracted 15,000 fans when he destroyed former WBO champion Jeff Horn in eight rounds in August at Bank Stadium in...

Mark Hunt was impressive despite dropping
a six round decision to Paul Gallen. Hunt has good skills and great power for a 46 year old. He got the biggest pay packet I am told

Bimbo Morris was good enough to have wins over Sparrow Freeman. Bimbo lost to old mate of mine
Buddy Clare who passed away many years ago

Sparrow boxed two of my boxers. Reg King stopped Sparrow but Wayne Wallace was held to a draw. Wallace had a win over Big Jim West. I was in Melbourne when Tony Russell stopped Sparrow on undercard of BARRY Michael v Frank Ropis. Sparrow trainer Bernie Hall abuser Sparrow in the dressing room for be...

Good effort by Noel McNamara to box a draw with Billy Bell who would defeat Graham Dicker, Billy Choules, Ricky Datsun and Errol McIvor. He had his last fight against Eric Briggs father of Paul Briggs

Tim Tszyu would defeat Teixeira but would find Castano a dificult fight. I am confident Castano will defeat Teixeira on February 13 at Fantasy Springs casino in Indio California and Tszyu will have to challenge him. Castano is unbeaten and a former WBA champion. Erisandy Lara who gave Canelo a tough...

Australia’s biggest draw card, WBO#2 light middleweight Tim Tszyu(17-0,13KO’s) will have to put his hopes of getting a WBO world title opportunity in early 2021 on hold with the announcement WBO champion Patrick Teixeira (31-1,22KO’s) is scheduled to defend against WBO mandatory contender Brian Cast...

Rodney Finlay jnr also got caught up in horse doping at Rosehill . He was a hairdresser. Greg had brother NOEL who boxed a draw with Billy Bell who beat Mahunga. He was a butcher by trade

Very sad to hear Rod has passed. Greg named his son Rodney. I met Rodney McNamara a few years ago at a Darchinyan fight in Alexandria. He was with his brother. Very nice young guys. Both standing over six feet. Time fly’s. Greg brought his son Rod to my house when he was about 5 years of age. He wou...

Rodney Finlay was excellent hairdresser. I good health today in his eighties. I talked to him recently

Rod Finlay was also excellent hairdresser. Still in good health in his eighties. I spoke to him recently