Sinner, Revised and Edited: On Benny Lynch

[thenonpareil]

On October, 3, 1938, In the same week that Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes hit cinema screens, Lynch’s boxing career disappeared into memory. Against Aurel Toma at London’s Earls Court, he was allegedly seen drinking in his dressing room before the fight, and, entering the ring in appalling condition, Lynch was duly dispatched inside three painful rounds. For those present, it must have felt like viewing the Mona Lisa after it had been scrawled with colored pens. He was once a masterpiece—fleet-footed and with coruscating power in either hand—but the booze had soaked him.

https://hannibalboxing.com/sinner-revis ... nny-lynch/

[Ambling Alp II]

Sad way to end his career.

[dalcumly]

During the early 1990's there was an article on Lynch in the RING magazine. The correspondent stated at one point that Benny had been beaten by John Barleycorn!!!

In the next issue one of our American friends wrote in saying that he'd checked Lynch's record and found no trace of Barleycorn and wondered if it had been an 'unlicensed' fight ????

[Ambling Alp II]