16 year-old Brit Jack Oliphant wins European Junior title - WBN2017-10-03 · World Boxing News
He was one of two English boxers to win a medal in Albena and was joined on the podium by 15-year-old, William Howe, from the Phil Thomas School of Boxing in Middlesbrough, who took bronze in the light-heavyweight division, in only his 10th competitive …
Top 10 British heavyweight boxers of all time2016-04-08 · Telegraph.co.uk
William Thomas Wells, better known as Bombardier Billy Wells, was British and British Empire Champion from 1911 until 1919, defending the British title a record 14 times. In 1911 he became the first heavyweight to win the Lonsdale Belt, which had been …
The ten best boxing films2014-01-24 · Telegraph.co.uk
Boxing and cinema have enjoyed a long relationship. The first boxing match to be filmed was way back in 1894, when early American producer and Thomas Edison protégé William KL Dickson filmed a contest between Jack Cushing and Mike Leonard, aka …