Summary
When flying to Dublin to cover a fight in the Fifties, the peerless American boxing writer A J Leibling sat next to 'a large, fair-haired man of resolute and familiar appearance'.
'Know what?' said Leibling's companion, 'I'm only three pounds more than when I fought Joe Looeey.'See the full content of this document
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Rocky of the Rhondda and the Great Mountain Fighters
Yep, Leibling wrote, 'He was Tommy Farr, the old Welsh heavyweight who went 15 rounds with Louis in 1937...'
As all the world except Wales knows, Farr lost. But this Dunkirk of the r...See the full content of this document
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