A classic eight-rounder at Walworth's Manor Place Baths in the 1970s featured Dave Proud against Peter Neal. Proud nicked it by a round but tensions were still high after such a war and rival trainers Ricky Porter and Dennie Mancini squared up.
Mickey Durvan stopping Kevin Plant in the 8th and final round at Crystal Palace leisure centre.
A real bruiser of a fight with Durvan pounding Plant to defeat. Plant gave everything he had that night and it was quite stomach churning watching Kevin go limp and fall apart so close to reaching the final bell.
Durvan wouldn't be denied and really earned his purse
THEBUTCH wrote: ↑21 May 2021, 17:58
Mickey Durvan stopping Kevin Plant in the 8th and final round at Crystal Palace leisure centre.
A real bruiser of a fight with Durvan pounding Plant to defeat. Plant gave everything he had that night and it was quite stomach churning watching Kevin go limp and fall apart so close to reaching the final bell.
Durvan wouldn't be denied and really earned his purse
Good fighter Durvan, one of those forgotten fighters, I just looked at his record again, done well against some proper names and beat a couple too
Eubank had some wonderful leisure centre and small hall fights - Denys Cronin in Cardiff, the partisan crowd; it was very entertaining stuff and Trevor East happened to be in the audience and signed Eubank to ITV. And Hugo Corti for a title - see Eubank on his knees at the end with a huge grin on his face all over the moon that he has a green belt; this is pre-mass press Eubank when he wanted glory in the sport. The press-harassed Eubank a year later wasn’t a happy man and it changed his outlook for five years until he had some time away.
The Logan win on points over 8 rounds launched Eubank snr as a serious British title contender. Chris was very pleased with his hard fought win in what was a step up fight.
Yep, another good 8 rounder with Eubank snr turning on the style against Cronin and forcing a stoppage with some sharp punching. He was complimentary about Cronin afterwards remarking that he was one of the strongest men he had faced.
coghaugen11 wrote: ↑21 May 2021, 18:55
I believe he even took Cronin on as a sparring partner after, to tee off on and sharpen up his counters and combos nicely for fights.
It made him razor against Kid Milo.
He offered Cronin to come up to spar - Denys didn't accept.
Didn’t see this Eubank again until the Calzaghe and Thompson fights. He got a massive standing ovation at Royal Albert Hall after the Logan fight too.
I don’t know if he or Barry Hearn chose the panto villain or if he just gravitated towards it. The press were really on his back though, and most of the industry itself, so he probably just naturally rebelled
I remember Chris Blake from the ABAs. He reached the ABA semi-finals at welterweight in 1983 and was outscored by southpaw Scot Tommy Campbell in a bit of an upset. Campbell was then beaten in the final by Manchester's Bob McKenley but put up a good fight. Chris was back a year later and was beaten by Mickey Hughes in the London ABAs but had Hughes gone at one point. Hughes went all the way to the ABA title and to the Olympics so it was a decent losing effort from Blake.
