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32 years ago today future Heavyweight Title challenger Jimmy Young came over to the UK and fought a eight round draw against the UK's Billy Aird at World Sporting Club, London.

At this point Young was still a little inexperienced but it was still a great result for the limited (in world tems) Billy Aird.

Does anyone have any memories or information on this fight? Was it a fair decision etc.

Cheers fight fans?

Jimmy Young
http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=000276

Billy Aird
http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=016071

As you know Billy is one of our Merseyside fighters and at present lives in the london area and attends a former boxers assoc meetings - forgot which one at the moment- I was hoping to see him soon but not sure when etc.

Should be able to get some details on this at some point and will make a point of sending them to you

robert.snell1 wrote:Should be able to get some details on this at some point and will make a point of sending them to you

That would be fantastic if you could do that Rob. I am a big Jimmy Young fan and always eager to learn more about his career.

Also Billy Aird had a very respectable career, as well as Young he fought many big name such as Richard Dunn, Bunny Johnson, John Conteh, Gregorio Peralta, Kevin Isaac, Alfredo Evangelista, John L Gardner, Gordon Ferris and Steve Gee. Thats a very impressive list, he must have some great stories to tell. I also notice he beat Big Cliff Field twice, Fields by all accounts was a very powerfull man with a big punch who went on to box on unlicensed cards with a lot of success. I heard that these two fights were stopped on cuts, but having never seen them I can say for sure.

The last I heard about Cliff Field was that he had developed a very bad drinking problem and in a bad way after suffering a stroke about 2 years ago.

mercman wrote:Anybody any idea what sort of fighter Billy Aird was?

I would like to know the answer to this question as well.

KOJOE90 wrote:

mercman wrote:Anybody any idea what sort of fighter Billy Aird was?

I would like to know the answer to this question as well.

I have Airds fight against John Conteh if you're interested. Aird was a pretty good boxer, clever and pretty fast but lacked power. Looking at his career he was also rather erratic, a man/fighter of moods perhaps.
I have a lot on Aird and Young too in my 70s boxing News papers.
Young also fought twice more in London... in feb 11 '74 he koed Richard Dunn in 8 and on April 22nd the same year he outpointed Les Stevens over 10 rounds.
Sorry to be so anally retentive!... 8) .
I'd love to have Youngs fights with Shavers! :x

mercman wrote:Continuing the anally retentive theme, I notice Billy Aird's career looks a bit 'lopsided' in that he was fairly 'busy' for the first half of his career but much less so later on. In fact from 1976 until his retirement in 1983 Aird consistently fought twice a year; no more and no less. It just strikes me as a bit unusual. I wonder if this was purposeful or just the way things panned out?

Perhaps it was just the way he walked!... 8) :x

KOJOE90 wrote:

robert.snell1 wrote:Should be able to get some details on this at some point and will make a point of sending them to you

That would be fantastic if you could do that Rob. I am a big Jimmy Young fan and always eager to learn more about his career.

Also Billy Aird had a very respectable career, as well as Young he fought many big name such as Richard Dunn, Bunny Johnson, John Conteh, Gregorio Peralta, Kevin Isaac, Alfredo Evangelista, John L Gardner, Gordon Ferris and Steve Gee. Thats a very impressive list, he must have some great stories to tell. I also notice he beat Big Cliff Field twice, Fields by all accounts was a very powerfull man with a big punch who went on to box on unlicensed cards with a lot of success. I heard that these two fights were stopped on cuts, but having never seen them I can say for sure.

The last I heard about Cliff Field was that he had developed a very bad drinking problem and in a bad way after suffering a stroke about 2 years ago.

I have a contact address for billy and will write to him later in the week. i will send him the questions and with a bit of luck we will get some comments from him . Several of the guys in our assoc. know him very well so i will ask them also. will be several weeks however