.Name: Peter Kane Alias: Peter Kain Born: 1918-02-28 Birthplace: Golborne, Lancashire, United Kingdom Died: 1991-07-23 (Age:73) Nationality: United Kingdom Hometown: Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom Height: 5′ 4″ / 163cm Boxing Record: click Born Peter Cain in Heywood , Lancashire, 23 Feb 1918, his family moved to Golbourne, just outside Heydock when he was aged 3. As a schoolboy we worked as a blacksmith, a job he continued for most of his career. This gave him tremendous upper body strength, an asset that he used to good effect when he stopped all of his first 13 opponents. He had his first paid fight at the Liverpool stadium when he was 16 and his all action non-stop style made him a great favourite wherever he appeared. He won his first title in 1937 – the Northern Area flyweight crown – before stopping the Irish champion Jim Warnock before a 35,000 crowd at the Anfield football ground – the home of Liverpool Football Club – in a World Title eliminator. After 41 consecutive wins (33 of them stoppages) he lost for the first time to the champion Benny Lynch who stopped him in the 13th round at Shawfield Park Glasgow in October 1937 in front of a 40,000 crowd. His great performance earned him a return fight five months later, but Lynch failed to make the weight; the bout was reduced to 12 rounds and resulted in a draw. Lynch was 6 ½ lb over the limit. The following year Lynch forfeited his crown, and Peter Kane defeated the American Jackie Jurich for the vacant crown. His manager Ted Denvir had readily agreed and the Liverpool Stadium manager Johnny Best joined forces with Belle Vue ( Manchester ) resulting in a 35,800 crowd – some estimates put it over 40,000 – at the Anfield ground. A record for any Mersey crowd. Nel Tarleton had joined Peter’s camp and was his chief sparring partner . Jurich was on the defensive for much of the fight in an attempt to keep the hard-hitting Kane at bay but to little success. Kane – a great favourite in France where he was known as Le Petite Forgeron – dropped Jurich in round two for a count of nine with a punch so hard it was to damage his knuckle. The damaged finger was later to be amputated . However, before he could cash in on his laurels World War two intervened and he joined the RAF. The NBA proclaimed the Filipino, Little Dado, as champion in 1939 but nobody – including Dado – took the distinction very seriously. When some 5 years later after winning the title in his first defence he was knocked out in 61 seconds by the Scot Jackie Paterson at Hampden 19 June 1943. Kane seemed finished but two years later surprised the boxing world when - after moving up to bantamweight - he won the European bantamweight title from Theo Medina of France. He defended it successfully against Belgian Joe Cornelis then lost it to Guido Ferracin of Italy. Following another loss to Ferracin and to Liverpool’s Stan Rowan in a British bantamweight title eliminator in Manchester, he announced his retirement aged 30. My Most Thrilling Fights and Lessons I Learned (1937) by Peter Kane http://nipperpatdaly.co.uk/peterkanearticle.htm .