Ribchester
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Met Alan on a couple of occasions as my eldest lad used to box at Crawley ABC, where Minter is a legend.
His old man Sid used to run a drinking club down Waterloo St in Hove where all the local and London villains drank.
Joe Bugner
John Conteh
Dave 'Boy' Green
Richard Dunn
and many more.... All brought to us via Harry Carpenter each Wednesday via Sportsnight.
There’s a shout that Lennox would of busted them a new one, just saying
Before my time, obviously, however seen pretty much all there is on the fighters mentioned and Ali would always be the stand out, takes more than a viscous right to be a true champion, with his story self explanatory!
Kirkland Laing 'The Gifted One'. Probably the best British boxer never to win a world title.
Lennox would have been too ponderous to lay a glove on Ali, Might have tapped him a few times with his jab but Ali would have just picked him off at will.