John Stoke

DISPLAYING his best boxing stance, John Salt squares up for the camera in this 1950s image. John (front row, far right) is pictured at Stoke-on-Trent Amateur Boxing Club, Hanley, in 1958, aged 10. At the centre is the towering frame of fellow club…

Ben Mountford used an inner steel forged in the boxing ring to battle his way into the Royal Marines. Now back in Civvy Street, the 27-year-old married father of two, from Packmoor, tells John Woodhouse how he's passing on his fitness skills by opening…

Motherwell on a close judges' decision. Last Friday's bumper boxing programme proved to be a productive night for Stoke Staffs ABC, with Brian Stokes executing his punching power to beat Donington's Bradley Thompson. John Stokes was in commanding …

Stoke-on-Trent's Scott Lawton will box Manchester's John Murray for the British lightweight title in Wigan on 13 June.…