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Hygiene-obsessed Joe Bloom maintained pristine standards at his famous West End gym WHEN you think of an old-time gym what do you imagine? Floors, walls and windows thick with grime, dilapidated equipment and a rickety, blood-stained ring? Go back 60 years or more and that’s probably a fair portrayal of a typical British boxing gym. But there was one notable exception. The Cambridge gym at 9 Earlham Street, off Cambridge Circus, in London’s West End was a bastion of neatness and cleanliness thanks to its eccentric owner, Joe Bloom. “You’d be skipping and he’d be going round sprinkling disinfectant on the floor,” Teddy Lewis, a talented feather and lightweight of the 1940s and ‘50s, once told me. “Woe betide anyone who dropped even a small piece of paper on the floor of Joe’s beloved gym,” recalled Boxing News ‘Old Timers’ doyen Ron Olver. ....
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The story of the forgotten Warwickshire boxer who once beat the legendary Sugar Ray Robinson Randolph Turpin, known as the Leamington Licker, became the middleweight champion after defeating boxing legend Sugar Ray Robinson Randolph Turpin Never miss another Warwickshire story by signing up to our free email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. ....
A BOXING club which has produced a string of Welsh champions over 30 years will continue to pack a punch - thanks to cash confiscated from criminals. Clwyd Amateur Boxing Club in Rhyl was founded in 1989 by the late Johnny Ritchie, born John Richard Jones, who fought at both amateur and professional level and sparred with legendary world middleweight champion Randolph Turpin. Johnny s son Darryl Jones and grandson Justin who have followed in his footsteps by running the club, also enjoyed successful boxing careers. The three generations of the boxing family have helped emerging boxing talent thrive at their gym but club coaches have been credited with helping turn round the lives of members who could have been tempted to follow a life of crime. ....
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