Liverpool - The Boxing City
Growing up in Liverpool in the 1950's and 60's the great names from the city's boxing past were as well-known to me as the Deans and Lawtons of my cherished Everton. Accounts of Nel Tarleton's triumphs and disappointments in front of big crowds at Anfield were by then a distant echo of the mass following the sport had once enjoyed. The stories behind the names are often remarkable, battles against adversity rarely gaining the financial rewards they merited. I am not a boxing historian and the boxers selected are an eclectic mix, mainly being those whose feats were still being talked of in the family long after they had left the ring for good.
