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As teenage boxer Kid Mears stepped through the ropes, into the ring, his young girlfriend Fay could scarcely bear to watch. Later that evening she issued an ultimatum: “It’s the ring or me!” Jack Solomons discarded his gloves and his nickname and concentrated on his day job, hawking fish from a stall on Petticoat Lane market. He and Fay were swiftly married and remained together until her death 25 years later. Jack had too good a brain to have it exposed to the brutality of life in the boxing ring, after he figured out that the real money, and the longer career, was in promoting bouts he left his day job to return to his ultimate calling. Jack Solomons went on to become one of the greatest boxing promoters in history. Initially, Jack’s speciality was in putting on young, up & coming boxers not handled by the established business. Jack Solomons Gym was originally based in the Devonshire Sporting Club, off Mare Street in Hackney until it was destroyed by German bombs in 1940. After this, Jack Solomons boxing gym found a new home in Great Windmill Street. In 1945 Solomons hit it big with the Jack London vs Bruce Woodcock British heavyweight title fight at White Hart Lane. Following this Jack took on the big British fighters of the day such as Freddie Mills and Randolph Turpin. Jack promoted the sensational bout in 1951 when Sugar Ray Robinson lost his middleweight world title to Turpin. In 1963, he brought Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) to England to fight Henry Cooper. -
State of the Game
STATE OF THE GAME THEOUR BIBLE EXCLUSIVE OF BOXING DIVISION-BY-DIVISION ANALYSIS THE BIBLE OF BOXING ® MAN OH +HALL OF FAME 2014 MANNY PACQUIAO PROVES HE ISN’T FINISHED OSCAR P.76 DE LA HOYA THE RING AT PEACE WITH REMEMBERS RUBIN CARTER, HIMSELF, CAREER MICKEY DUFF P.40 P.80 TH 25 BEST I ANNIVERSARY: FACED: THE HALL’S EVOLUTION P.48 FELIX TRINIDAD JULY 2014 JULY P.20 $8.95 83 CONTENTS | JULY 2014 Rubin “Hurricane” FEATURES Carter, the former middleweight contender who maintained he was wrongly convicted of murder and ultimately won his freedom, died on April 20. Oscar De La Hoya (left) and Felix Trinidad enter the International Boxing 48 Hall of Fame in June. HALL OF FAME 40 DE LA HOYA: NEW CHAPTER THE ‘GOLDEN BOY,’ FINALLY AT PEACE WITH HIMSELF, SAYS HE’S BACK By Ron Borges 48 25TH ANNIVERSARY THE BOXING HALL OF FAME HAS BECOME AN ICONIC DESTINATION By Bernard Fernandez 54 STATE OF THE GAME THE RING MAGAZINE’S ANNUAL DIVISION-BY-DIVISION BREAKDOWN By David Greisman 76 PACMAN’S STATEMENT MANNY PACQUIAO PROVED AGAINST TIM BRADLEY THAT HE ISN’T FINISHED By Norm Frauenheim 80 MICKEY DUFF: 1929-2014 THE BRITISH PROMOTER WAS AN UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTER By Gareth A Davies 83 RUBIN CARTER: 1937-2014 ‘HURRICANE’ GAINED INTERNATIONAL FAME BY FIGHTING FOR HIS FREEDOM By Tim Smith CARTER: FPG/GETTY IMAGES; DE LA HOYA/TRINIDAD: THE RING MAGAZINE FPG/GETTY IMAGES; DE LA HOYA/TRINIDAD: CARTER: COVER PHOTO / GREG GORMAN 7.14 / RINGTV.COM 3 DEPARTMENTS 6 RINGSIDE 7 OPENING SHOTS 96 12 COME OUT WRITING 15 ROLL WITH THE PUNCHES Unbeaten junior Jabs and Straight Writes by Thomas Hauser featherweight Shelly Vincent 20 BEST I FACED: FELIX TRINIDAD overcame By Anson Wainwright daunting challenges with 22 READY TO GRUMBLE the help of boxing. -
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Cronfa - Swansea University Open Access Repository _____________________________________________________________ This is an author produced version of a paper published in: The Historical Journal Cronfa URL for this paper: http://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52440 _____________________________________________________________ Paper: Johnes, M. & Taylor, M. (in press). Boxing, Race, and British Identity, 1945-1962. The Historical Journal Released under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License (CC-BY-NC- ND). _____________________________________________________________ This item is brought to you by Swansea University. Any person downloading material is agreeing to abide by the terms of the repository licence. Copies of full text items may be used or reproduced in any format or medium, without prior permission for personal research or study, educational or non-commercial purposes only. The copyright for any work remains with the original author unless otherwise specified. The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holder. Permission for multiple reproductions should be obtained from the original author. Authors are personally responsible for adhering to copyright and publisher restrictions when uploading content to the repository. http://www.swansea.ac.uk/library/researchsupport/ris-support/ Authors’ version of article accepted for publication in Historical Journal (published by Cambridge University Press). Boxing, Race, and British Identity, 1945-1962 Martin Johnes and Matthew Taylor In 1947, the British Board of Boxing Control abolished its rule that British champions must have two white parents thus ending one of the few formal mechanisms of racial discrimination in British society. The Board had come under pressure from the press and government to make the change. -
Race, National Identity and Responses to Muhammad Ali in 1960S Britain
Author’s Original Manuscript. This article has been accepted for publication in International Journal of History of Sport, published by Taylor & Francis. The published version can be found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523367.2019.1679775 Race, National Identity and Responses to Muhammad Ali in 1960s Britain Martin Johnes (Swansea University) From the 1990s onwards, Muhammad Ali was celebrated in the USA primarily as a humanitarian figure who had done much to promote racial understanding and reconciliation. The power of this image, despite evidence of Ali’s prejudices, owed much to a nation trying to right some wrongs in its racial history and acknowledge how he had been hated by many Americans in the 1960s.1 In contrast, the British media has painted an affectionate picture of the UK’s relationship with the boxer.2 This suited Ali too since it reinforced the idea of American prejudice that he sought to challenge. He recorded in his 1976 autobiography – a ghost-written text intended to promote Ali’s politics - that he had fallen in love with England. He recalled that he had been treated on his first visit, ‘so warm, so friendly’ and with a ‘kindness and courtesy’ that he never experienced in the USA. He thus regarded, he claimed, the country as his second home.3 Inevitably, the reality was more complex; in 1960s Britain Ali was judged through a lens of national identity and race that was not always warm or affectionate. On the occasion of his first fight in the UK, against Henry Cooper in 1963, Ali’s boasting offended many for whom it typified an American excess out of sorts with British modesty. -
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Author’s Original Manuscript. This article has been accepted for publication in International Journal of History of Sport, published by Taylor & Francis Race, National Identity and Responses to Muhammad Ali in 1960s Britain Martin Johnes (Swansea University) From the 1990s onwards, Muhammad Ali was celebrated in the USA primarily as a humanitarian figure who had done much to promote racial understanding and reconciliation. The power of this image, despite evidence of Ali’s prejudices, owed much to a nation trying to right some wrongs in its racial history and acknowledge how he had been hated by many Americans in the 1960s.1 In contrast, the British media has painted an affectionate picture of the UK’s relationship with the boxer.2 This suited Ali too since it reinforced the idea of American prejudice that he sought to challenge. He recorded in his 1976 autobiography – a ghost-written text intended to promote Ali’s politics - that he had fallen in love with England. He recalled that he had been treated on his first visit, ‘so warm, so friendly’ and with a ‘kindness and courtesy’ that he never experienced in the USA. He thus regarded, he claimed, the country as his second home.3 Inevitably, the reality was more complex; in 1960s Britain Ali was judged through a lens of national identity and race that was not always warm or affectionate. On the occasion of his first fight in the UK, against Henry Cooper in 1963, Ali’s boasting offended many for whom it typified an American excess out of sorts with British modesty. -
Medicine, Sport and the Body: a Historical Perspective
Carter, Neil. "Boxing: A Medical History." Medicine, Sport and the Body: A Historical Perspective. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. 173–198. Bloomsbury Collections. Web. 1 Oct. 2021. <http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781849662062.ch-008>. Downloaded from Bloomsbury Collections, www.bloomsburycollections.com, 1 October 2021, 10:12 UTC. Copyright © Neil Carter 2012. You may share this work for non-commercial purposes only, provided you give attribution to the copyright holder and the publisher, and provide a link to the Creative Commons licence. 8 Boxing A Medical History Introduction In 1991 Michael Watson was stopped in the last round of his contest with Chris Eubank. He later collapsed and was rushed to hospital where he underwent lengthy brain surgery. The fi ght had been broadcast live and had earlier been the focus of much media hyperbole. As Watson’s condition deteriorated it became clear that he was to suffer from the consequences of long-term brain damage. It re-ignited the debate over the ethical nature of boxing and whether the sport should be banned. A few months afterwards a bill to ban the sport was brought before the House of Lords. Although this was defeated, consequences of the Watson-Eubank fi ght and the Benn-McClellan fi ght four years later would have important consequences for boxing. In 1999 Watson, now severely disabled, successfully sued the professional sport’s governing body, the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBC), 1 for a breach of their duty of care, and received £1 million. Following similar criticisms of the sport during the twentieth century, boxing responded by tightening up its medical regulations.