Randolph Turpin

[andywhite]

Hi, i have created a website about former world middleweight champion Randolph Turpin. I created the website after finding almost no information when searching about him on the internet. There may be a few inaccuracies in the website, so if you find any please inform me of them.

It's not the most professional site in the world put i have tried my best.

http://www.geocities.com/randyturpin2866

Thanks,
Andy

[J]

nice one, good work, tragic end to his life though hey.

[Wales]

he used to train in North Wales, in between my home and place of work in a huge mansion castle type thing.... there is alos a pub on top of the great orme in llandudno which i believe he owned at one point but is now, although i have not been there, apparently a kind of tribute to him.

place he used to train

[Wales]

Randolph used the castle prior to his succesfull fight with SRR.

[dondada]

Hi, i have created a website about former world middleweight champion Randolph Turpin. I created the website after finding almost no information when searching about him on the internet. There may be a few inaccuracies in the website, so if you find any please inform me of them.

It's not the most professional site in the world put i have tried my best.

http://www.geocities.com/randyturpin2866

Thanks,
Andy

Good on yer, well done.

[steve689]

Great website Well done mate.

[no1southpaw]

have not looked at the turpin site yet,but as a massive fan defo will,any new interest in this true legend has to be good,pity there isnt a new more modern biog on the man,could include his brothers as well as they were all highly rated boxers.the only book i know of at the moment is jack birtleys book which is a bit old fashioned and doesnt go in to enough detail it was wrote in 1975

[no1southpaw]

just had a quick look at your site looks friggin A1,will take a good look tomorrow,saw on your site that there is a 1996 biog about randy do you know were to get hold of a copy in hardback.off to bed now been boxing training 2nite am too knackered to sit on internet all night

[lamphey]

There are three books on Turpin that I'm aware of. Birtley, McInness and the James Morton book published about 12 months ago. I haven't read my copy yet but it's called "Fighters: The sad lives of Freddie Mills and Randy Turpin".

[lamphey]

There are three books on Turpin that I'm aware of. Birtley, McInness and the James Morton book published about 12 months ago. I haven't read my copy yet but it's called "Fighters: The sad lives of Freddie Mills and Randy Turpin".

Whoops! Should have looked at the site first, they are listed there.

Good work on the web-site.

[andywhite]

Thanks for the comments

[KOJOE90]

Good site, for a very good fighter.

A family friend of ours (who is much older than myself) went to see one of Turpins last fights, in Wales against Redvers Sangoe. He seems to recall that it was a pretty even fight untill Turpin landed a crippling bodyshot.

http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=036476

My friend went with his two cousins who were just about to turn proffesional. Their trainer took them to watch Turpin so they could "See what a real fighter looked like".

One of the Boxing cousins Tony Smith made his debut on the undercard of Turpins next fight.

http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=029707

Sadly like Turpin, Tony passed away many years ago.

Both the Boxing cousins and my friend used to have regular sparring sessions with Wolverhamptons Ron Gray, who later became a sucsessfull promoter and whenever I saw him a big cigar smoker as well.

Ron Gray I am told was one rough tough fighter in his day.

http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=028479

[Manos de Oro]

Very good website, Andy. Thought about making it http://www.randolphturpin.co.uk? It's worthy of its own domain, in my opinion...