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Maurice Maurice said:
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This image shows the aftermath of a boxing match between Dick Hyland and Ray Campbell in 1913

An image showing two bloodied boxers has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook alongside a claim it shows fighters Andy Bowen and Jack Burke after participating in “the longest boxing fight in history” in 1893. The claim is false; the image in fact shows boxers Dick Hyland and Ray Campbell...
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Thanks for the info, extremely interesting.
Don't see many sights like that these days. I can remember, possibly Terry Downs, in a bit of a bloodbath but cannot remember who he fought.
Also some one gave Freddie Mills a pasting around 1950, covered in his own blood he was, again cannot remember his opponent.
 
I think Cooper vs Clay (both of them) had as much blood flying around as I've seen in my lifetime. The cut men now do an incredible job, and it's pretty rare that cuts stop fights any more, certainly not as much as 'the good old days'.
 
Any one place where this is? My own thoughts are Walkley but really no idea. Thanks in advance for any help.🙂1950's Unk road.jpg
 
VM198 said:
Playing for England 1932 style, "bring your own sox lads".
Team V Wales at Wrexham result 0-0.View attachment 138928
Back Row-Stoker-Brum, Blenkinsop-SWFC, Higgs-Brum, Tate-Villa, Young-Hudders. Front Row-Crooks-Derby, Jack-Arsenal, Goodall capt-Hudders, Brown-Villa, Sandford-WBA, Cunliffe-Blackburn.
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Ray Goodall was from Dronfield
 
VM198 said:
Thanks for the info, extremely interesting.
Don't see many sights like that these days. I can remember, possibly Terry Downs, in a bit of a bloodbath but cannot remember who he fought.
Also some one gave Freddie Mills a pasting around 1950, covered in his own blood he was, again cannot remember his opponent.
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Joey Maxim .

A brutal fight in which , with one punch , he hit Mills so hard that he knocked out three of his teeth and left another embedded in his upper jaw .

Freddie’s other memorable fights were against against Gus Lesnovich when , apart from a relatively quiet period in the second one , they basically stood toe to toe and knocked the shit out of each other .

Proper boxing , that . :)
 
Silent Blade said:
Ray Goodall was from Dronfield
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Took me a while to work out names to faces. Blenkinsop was the only one I knew visually and I got him wrong first time.
I saw Goodall was from Dronfield but I knew you'd know. Was he part of the Div.1 hat trick team?
 
VM198 said:
Took me a while to work out names to faces. Blenkinsop was the only one I knew visually and I got him wrong first time.
I saw Goodall was from Dronfield but I knew you'd know. Was he part of the Div.1 hat trick team?
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Yes, played for them between 1921 and 1937
 
Isaw Joeshaw said:
Joey Maxim .

A brutal fight in which , with one punch , he hit Mills so hard that he knocked out three of his teeth and left another embedded in his upper jaw .

Freddie’s other memorable fights were against against Gus Lesnovich when , apart from a relatively quiet period in the second one , they basically stood toe to toe and knocked the shit out of each other .

Proper boxing , that . :)
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ISJS can you remember listening to boxing on the BBC 'Steam' radio in the forties and early fifties? I have memories of listening to a Mills fight on the radio, must have been the Lesnovich one in London. I have better ones of the Turpin/Robinson fight when Randolf won the title and being told he had lost when I awoke after his loss in the USA.
 
VM198 said:
ISJS can you remember listening to boxing on the BBC 'Steam' radio in the forties and early fifties? I have memories of listening to a Mills fight on the radio, must have been the Lesnovich one in London. I have better ones of the Turpin/Robinson fight when Randolf won the title and being told he had lost when I awoke after his loss in the USA.
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I do indeed have such memories , including the time me and my elder brother got up around 1:30 am to listen to the commentary of the Rocky Marciano v Don Cockell fight from America .

I was mad keen on boxing from a young age , even though the only live bouts I saw until much later in life were at the local fair , which I’m guessing you will also remember .
 
Isaw Joeshaw said:
Joey Maxim .

A brutal fight in which , with one punch , he hit Mills so hard that he knocked out three of his teeth and left another embedded in his upper jaw .

Freddie’s other memorable fights were against against Gus Lesnovich when , apart from a relatively quiet period in the second one , they basically stood toe to toe and knocked the shit out of each other .

Proper boxing , that . :)
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Before my time but I remember reading Freddies autobiography some years back and I thought maybe it was the Lesnevich fight, so I watched it on YouTube yesterday and yes, they weren't pulling their punches.

I grew up listening to boxing on the wireless with my dad and grandad. Alan Rudkin, Jack Bodell, Billy Walker, Brian London, Henry Cooper etc. There was something magic about huddling round the radio, playing cards and listening to the fights. So much better than the overhyped, fight once or twice a year bullshit that's become top level boxing now.
 

Maurice Maurice said:
Before my time but I remember reading Freddies autobiography some years back and I thought maybe it was the Lesnevich fight, so I watched it on YouTube yesterday and yes, they weren't pulling their punches.

I grew up listening to boxing on the wireless with my dad and grandad. Alan Rudkin, Jack Bodell, Billy Walker, Brian London, Henry Cooper etc. There was something magic about huddling round the radio, playing cards and listening to the fights. So much better than the overhyped, fight once or twice a year bullshit that's become top level boxing now.
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Alan Rudick, fought at lower weights I believe and didn't he win a Olympic gold?
Jack Bodell the 'Derbyshire scaffolder' from Swadlincote.
Billy Walker 100% tryer, don't think he ever won the British title, his time was over shadowed by 'Our Henry'.
Brian London least said the better, his dad Jack I knew nothing of but watching his Freddie Mills fight he was far better than Brien. In that Newsreel of the fight I was impressed that as soon as Mills entered the ring he went over to shake his hand. OK gamesmanship, but after living through those times I recon it was genuine respect for Mills. At the end of the clip it showed his wife and two sons in the ring with him, presumable one son was Brien.
Henry Cooper best of your bunch, had it all but his skin let him down, but if he could get the 'ammer' in it was good night Vienna. I watched him fight(T/V) a giant of an Italian in Rome. Fight was going the Italians way until during some infighting Henry hit him with an uppercut, never saw the punch they were too close together. Copper had to step back and to the side as his opponent pitched forward, 'sparko' just like a felled tree.
 

Alan Rudkin was a little feller but a big heart, like a lot of fighters then, take a lunch to land a punch.

Jack Bodell lost a toe mowing the lawn and he was knocking on a bit by then but I seem to remember that was the reason he retired from boxing. I know he had a fish and chips shop and I think Muhammad Ali paid a visit when he opened it. Brian London was very limited, a better fighter out of the ring than in it. He only died last year as well which is surprising with the amount of punishment he took.

Loved the old fighters, it was still a dirty game but I don't know, they were fighters more than celebrities then. I think that's what turns me off modern day sport in general, it's more about media presence than actual substance now.
 
Maurice Maurice said:

Alan Rudkin was a little feller but a big heart, like a lot of fighters then, take a lunch to land a punch.

Jack Bodell lost a toe mowing the lawn and he was knocking on a bit by then but I seem to remember that was the reason he retired from boxing. I know he had a fish and chips shop and I think Muhammad Ali paid a visit when he opened it. Brian London was very limited, a better fighter out of the ring than in it. He only died last year as well which is surprising with the amount of punishment he took.

Loved the old fighters, it was still a dirty game but I don't know, they were fighters more than celebrities then. I think that's what turns me off modern day sport in general, it's more about media presence than actual substance now.
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I always thought Brian London’s best fight in the ring was in Porthcawl - after his contest against Dick Richardson was over . :)

His brother and his dad didn’t do too badly either !
 

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