Dave Charnley was a very talented and tough English lightweight of the fifties and sixties whose great misfortune in life was to be a contemporary of the great lightweight champion, Joe Brown. In two title challenges against the wily campaigner they…
Ottawa in the 1950s was also the boxing capital of Canada. Mitchell shunned media attention because he had two younger brothers who became high-profile outlaws. ?I loved them,? he said at his east-end home. ?But I don't want to talk about them…