And Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn hopes to surpass 90,000 for the April fight, which would better the British record for a boxing match held jointly by the Joshua-Klitschko bout and Len Harvey's meeting with Jock McAvoy at White City Stadium in 1939…
On this day in 1908 (20th November), one of the legends of the British boxing ring, Joseph Bamford was born in Burnley, he fought under the name of Jock McAvoy from 1927 to 1945 and became known as the Rochdale Thunderbolt.…