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anyone help with details on a boxer called Bobby Neil ?
Posted: 11 Dec 2010, 15:09
by Alba
http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_ ... &cat=boxer
a bit of a throwback i know ,retired 50 years ago ?
any help would be great ?
Re: anyone help with details on a boxer called Bobby Neil ?
Posted: 11 Dec 2010, 15:40
by GAV
If no one on here can help you then it may be worth your while to contact Brian Donald at the Edinburgh Evening News.
Re: anyone help with details on a boxer called Bobby Neil ?
Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 06:00
by McCannW14
Lives in Croydon now, very good mates with Billy Secular (Smith) ex pro who is a good friend of my family. Nice bloke, excellent trainer and very very good fighter. Bobby settled in South East London (Walworth) when he moved doen from Scotland.
He's in good health and would still make a top trainer.
Trained Lloyd Honeyghan for the Donald Curry fight.
Re: anyone help with details on a boxer called Bobby Neil ?
Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 06:04
by bennie
Bobby was a great trainer, one of our best. He turned Alan Minter from a reckless, cut-prone slugger into a smooth-boxing world champion, and did much the same with Honeyghan, who looked awful in some of his early fights. Mickey Duff raves about Neil in his autobiography.
Re: anyone help with details on a boxer called Bobby Neil ?
Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 06:22
by McCannW14
Re: anyone help with details on a boxer called Bobby Neil ?
Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 07:56
by Alba
ta guy ... could you send me a message with contact details ?i am his friends great nephew!
Re: anyone help with details on a boxer called Bobby Neil ?
Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 08:54
by el_grande_mauro_mina
I am pretty sure Bobby Neil was one of the first boxers to survive brain clot surgery after he collpased into a coma in the dressing room whilst losing his title to Terry Spinks. In those days - a boxer who got a brain clot usually died from it and Bobby Neil fought the odds and won. A boxing legend who crossed swords with one of the most dangerous featherweights ever in Davey Moore when he was world champion.
Re: anyone help with details on a boxer called Bobby Neil ?
Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 10:36
by Alba
CHEERS carlos ,
this came about as my great auntie died a week past last and my mum found a sgined photo to her husband .The problem we had is we couldent make it out but i found another article on hi, ...once i get it taken i will upload them to share it ... its been an intresting insight into a fighter ... he must be high up in the Mason's i think ...was there many masonic boxers
Re: anyone help with details on a boxer called Bobby Neil ?
Posted: 12 Dec 2010, 18:44
by Scrap
Great Fighter Great Tainer, Great Man
