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What a great guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUhIscV9B5M

I remember him, filmed him against Colin McMillan

ERIC GUY wrote:I remember him, filmed him against Colin McMillan

Met him in Johnnie Royes gym top fella his son is boxing now he was there training him

Good value boxer, I remember him winning the British Super Feather title , Hugh Forde fighting in front of his own fans was unbeaten and looked on the way to a routine defense, he then spent a second to long on the ropes in the 3rd round and Kevin landed a superb right hand to KO Forde.

Kev was a cracking fighter - long arms, dangerous punch, misleading record. His British title win over Hughie Forde was funny because Forde was trying to win a Lonsdale Belt in record time and had already lined up his next challenger, one Mark Holt, a few weeks after Pritchard. To compound this, both Boxing Monthly and Boxing News came out with blatantly disrespectful previews. They completely wrote Pritchard off.

Bang!

From memeory he was a good fighter and in always good shape; similar to Sugar Gibilru. Far better than his record suggests.

kevin is a joiner these days and lives in preston i believe

johnnykayo wrote:kevin is a joiner these days and lives in preston i believe

yep top fella his son a good fighter being trained by Kevin and Johnney Roye

Kev is my uncle and godfather, I'd like to know if anyone has any of his fight on tape, DVD etc.....

Neil

i got one on video somewere ill have to dig it out and ill let you know ok

johnnykayo wrote:i got one on video somewere ill have to dig it out and ill let you know ok

Excellent , thankyou! Do you know what fight it is? I used to have the Hugh forde one but its disappeared

kevin was a very good british level fighter , he fought my brother pat and won on a cut eye in the 2nd i think ,which really pissed pat off.

it's funny that he's still 9,7 as pat is now 13.7 not bad for a former feather weight

princess wrote:What a great guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUhIscV9B5M

Seems like a really nice fella.

When Kevin hit his stride the super feather division was crazy; no one could keep hold of the belt and there were upsets galore; I'm glad he's doing alright, he were wrote off terribly before his big win, (ropey 'tache though).

I remember the title changing hands with nobody making a defence, some good fighters too got beaten

First fighter I saw come into 'I Got The Power'. York Hall, 1912.