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Sport: Boxing

Joe Erskine

Enzo Calzaghe

Howard Winstone Boxing

Howard Winstone

Howard Winstone became World featherweight champion in 1968, 10 years after striking gold for Wales as an amateur at the Commonwealth Games in Cardiff. He took the British featherweight title…
Steve Robinson Boxing

Steve Robinson

Steve Robinson became known as the 'Cinderella Man' after taking a world title fight at 24 hours notice. It was a rags to riches story that saw the Cardiff boxer…
Freddy Welsh Boxing

Freddy Welsh

A full biography of Freddie Welsh will appear here shortly.
Jimmy Wilde Boxing

Jimmy Wilde

Universally acknowledged as the first world champion of the flyweight division, and arguably the greatest 8 stone title-holder of them all, Jimmy Wilde was nicknamed the 'Ghost with a Hammer…

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