Mickey Duff

British boxing has paid its respects to matchmaker Mickey Duff with the sort of eulogies likely to have the late promoter grinning from the grave. Duff, the Jewish rabbi's son who managed or promoted a host of world champions while dominating the often …

British boxing has paid its respects to Mickey Duff with the sort of eulogies likely to have the late promoter grinning from the grave. Duff, a Jewish rabbi's son who managed or promoted a host of world champions while dominating the often murky world…

Duff, the Jewish rabbi's son who managed or promoted a host of world champions while dominating the often murky world of British professional boxing from the 1960s to 1980s, died on Saturday aged 84. "I was at loggerheads with Mickey Duff for years," …

I was there to advise the paper's barrister, Louis Blom-Cooper QC, on boxing detail in a case that lasted three days. When Duff was called to give evidence, he limped into the witness box, looked balefully at the jury, then turned to the judge and…