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Paul was one of my favourite fighters to watch, always entertaining and never in a dull fight. former British, commonwealth, European and IBF, IBO featherweight world champion. Paul gave Prince Naseem Hamed his toughest fight, out-punched Manuel Madina and successfully defended his world title against 'Poison' Junior Jones at Madison Square Gardens.

Pauls career ended in Dec 2000 after he was stopped in the 11th round. Paul was weight drained and couldn't train properly because of injuries and shouldn't have been fighting that night, Paul still to this day doesn't understand why he did go through with the fight and cant remember the training camp for the fight, the fight! Paul fell into a coma afterwards and had to undergo several life saving brain operations and his boxing career was over.

I recently visited Paul at his home in Scarborough, took my camera and we chatted for a couple of hours about his career and the key moments that saw him fight at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, and then storm through the professional British featherweight rankings, cleaning up the domestic titles before becoming champion of the world.

Here is the video I knocked together and I've used fight footage of Pauls fights to bring his story back to life and to re-live with Paul the highlights of his remarkable career. This is Video Part One, the Second Part will be uploaded next week. :)

Video: Paul Ingle Interview Part One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOr_s0UxrH0

Hope you enjoy! - Chris, BritishBoxers.co.uk

ps: Be nice to hear your memories of Paul's career, I will pass on any comments to him, he still loves the game and it be nice for him to know he hasn't been forgotten by the fans.

Chris, you should post this up in the British & Irish forum too.

When I first glimpsed at the thread title I thought it said 'The yorkshire ripper'

Thanks Deano il do that now

I had the pleasure of boxing on the same bill as an amateur with Ingle a few times up in the North East. What impressed me about Ingle was his workrate, even as a young guy. His workrate was off the chart and he beat many a good fighter with good old school pressure fighting in a very similar vein to Ricky Hatton.