BoxRec

Had a little walk round the pound shop as you do&come across this book today,i know he was involved in the boxing game.Andy Till&Rocky Kelly were the names i regonised inside the front cover.Is this chap still involved in the game?

He is still around ringside quite a bit, does Audley's cuts and is in Eastenders most episodes.

mickey1975 wrote:He is still around ringside quite a bit, does Audley's cuts and is in Eastenders most episodes.

Cheers,il start reading it after the soaps tonight is he an extra in eastenders then or you taking the piss
edit just read further down the inside cover&it says last 20years he has appeared in Eastenders

My ex lass used to work on Eastenders and said that he's a decent bloke but you wouldn't want to mess with him!

harrys a smashin bloke,the best ! incidentally im seeing him next month at a boxing luncheon in london,cant speak highly enough of harry im afraid as he done a right favour for me a couple of years ago. myself,john h.stracey and charlie bronson had a charity day for the former british middleweight champion and last man to beat sugar ray robinson, mick leahy. mick had sadly been suffering with alzeimers and we wanted to raise a few quid for him,loads of fighters attended. anyway for the auction harry said he would let for the highest bidder have his villa in tenerife for a week,everything paid for. so yea harry is a top bloke,hes been in the acting game for donkeys. everybody knows harry in the fight game in britain,maximum respect harry

Wonderful guy, Harry

Proper fella Harry xx

Met Harry last Saturday very nice guy a genuine person!

Went into poundland & bought the book myself. Will be starting it after I have read the current one. Looks a good read.

I havnt started it yet,nearly finished the book im reading Bloggs19 good read if you like that type of thing

Think I have this one somewhere...not sure where mind =/

Harry Holland has been in the Boxing game all his life, its in his blood.
Was a small hall promoter for many years and looked after some very good fighters in those days, did a lot of shows around the Battersea and Acton areas which were always good value and produced some really good scraps.
Always beside Harry was the unforgetable Johnny Bloomfield a heavyweight from the 70's who trained Harrys lads who is sadly no longer with us, RIP JB.
Harry can still be seen ringside these days with his well known big smile Thats if you can see his face what with the dazzle of all that gold on his fingers

Just a point of correction for Johnnykayo Mick Leahy was not the last man to beat the great Sugar Ray Robinson in fact Robinson lost another 5 contests after he lost to Leahy. Fellow American Joey Archer was the last man to beat him and that was in the states way back in 1965.
Ray then hung up his gloves and sadly left us in 1989 after a wonderfull career, truely one of the best ever.

you can see Harry at some amateur shows, as his grandson box's for Dale Youth..

christ ! peter you your a strictler for being accurate always thought he was,but they are ! well spotted

Thank you Johnnykayo hopefully meet up with you ringside sometime? do you get to York Hall or are you from further away?

yea peter do get to york hall from time to time depends whos fighting really,but yea defo have a chat their next time im their or even better havin a chat over a jar or two in the dundee across the road !!!!

johnnykayo wrote:yea peter do get to york hall from time to time depends whos fighting really,but yea defo have a chat their next time im their or even better havin a chat over a jar or two in the dundee across the road !!!!

your barred from the dundee mate after you and me old man kept me in there until 3 in the morning one night lol

yea dars you were a bad influence on me and your dad LOL no doubt we will have many more nights in a proper east end boozer !!!!!!!