a good bit of History for you lads,
I'm quite proud of it, but more importantly it's PRE-recorded history from the reporters and fighters themselves...
http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/w0906-glen.html
enjoy.
a good Historical piece...
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I had already read it, but I went back and re-read it again. It's a very good article and while Gilroy was certainly a fighter who was heavily avoided, I would think that Jock McAvoy was more like the "Charley Burley" of the UK, but then again, you know a lot more about the topic than I do!
Ernie Roderick failed to secure but one title fight, which was against the great Henry Armstrong, yet I think that he would have given Fritzie Zivic, or Freddie Cochrane a very good run for they're money had he just been given another shot, but he was another who was avoided by a lot of fighters.
I also feel pretty much the same about Eric Boon, who never got a shot yet he was virtually unbeatable during the late 1930s! Boon was as exciting as it got, an Arturo Gatti of the 30s and 40s, or actually it's more, Gatti was a 90s and 00s Eric Boon! Boon's brawl with Arthur Danahar is among the greatest of all time and a little trivia, that bout was also the very first boxing bout in the world to be televised!
Ernie Roderick failed to secure but one title fight, which was against the great Henry Armstrong, yet I think that he would have given Fritzie Zivic, or Freddie Cochrane a very good run for they're money had he just been given another shot, but he was another who was avoided by a lot of fighters.
I also feel pretty much the same about Eric Boon, who never got a shot yet he was virtually unbeatable during the late 1930s! Boon was as exciting as it got, an Arturo Gatti of the 30s and 40s, or actually it's more, Gatti was a 90s and 00s Eric Boon! Boon's brawl with Arthur Danahar is among the greatest of all time and a little trivia, that bout was also the very first boxing bout in the world to be televised!