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Celebrating British boxing’s centurions Miles Templeton on British boxing's 100 club - the backbone of the sport ON November 7, 1975, Boxing News published an article about Battersea’s Ray Fallone under the heading: “Ray aims to go out with a win.” Three days later, Ray stepped into the ring for an eight-rounder with Mick Hampston of Lewisham, at the Greyhound Hotel, Croydon, for his 100th professional outing. Despite giving young Mick plenty to think about, Ray was outpointed. BN reported that “Ray was never hurt, and, true to form, boxed for most of the contest with a broad grin o...

OVER the decades the most prized trophy of former fighter Ray Fallone — a boxer with precisely 100 pro fights to his name — had deteriorated badly. But thanks to his sons and popular BBC daytime TV programme, The Repair Shop, it has been restored to its former glory. Scroll down for a link to watch the show The legendary Londoner, of Furze Hill Road, Shanklin, fought at welterweight level between 1962 and 1975 — still a golden era of the sport, in which Ray rubbed shoulders with the likes of Henry Cooper, John Conteh, Joe Bugner and Terry Downes on the pro circuit. In fact, he u...