Tony
"Eacha heart out ya bums"
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Missed those two DSB. My uncle was a pretty successful booth fighter. Remember those far eastern fighters fighting at weird weights such as strawweight 48 kg and paperweight 50kg. Was in Inglewood LA and regret I didn't go to the local Boxing stadium. Plenty of Puerto Ricans and Mexicans pummelling each other. Yoko Gushiken is another I remember. Vicente Saldivar another I liked. Carmen Basilio, Dick Tiger the list is endless.Fighting Harada, also, one of my favourites Tony. Fighting in the early sixties as a flyweight- Do you remember another Japanese fighter, Yoshio Shirai? He was prominent in the fifties and was the first Japanese boxer to wIn a World title, also Flyweight or, maybe Feather. Shan't ask you if you remember a Danny 'Bang Bang ' Womba- Black fighter from Nigeria who took on all comers at the Fairground just by Broad Oaks Bridge on Staniforth Road. (Just after the War (2nd). I didn't challenge him as I was only 8 or 9 at the time. Don't know what is there now but it was used as a Barrage balloon launching site in the War. Sorry I don't have a photograph.