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Who should Ryan fight next? 🤔
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Who should Ryan fight next? 🤔

The talking is heating up 🔥🔥🔥 Who do you think would win this fight?
02/07/2025

The talking is heating up 🔥🔥🔥
Who do you think would win this fight?

Rumors and reports are swirling🌪
02/07/2025

Rumors and reports are swirling🌪

THE TRASH TALK & FIGHTS WILL BE🔥Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney will share a card in May, Turki Alalshihk has announced.
02/07/2025

THE TRASH TALK & FIGHTS WILL BE🔥
Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney will share a card in May, Turki Alalshihk has announced.

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CANELO DUCKING! 🥊💯🥊























Tank is rooting for Inoue to win 🤝
02/07/2025

Tank is rooting for Inoue to win 🤝

Tank and Shakur both had legends visit their fight camps this week 🥊
02/07/2025

Tank and Shakur both had legends visit their fight camps this week 🥊

The light heavyweight division has its own version of a Final Four tournament‼️
02/07/2025

The light heavyweight division has its own version of a Final Four tournament‼️

A deal for Bud Crawford to fight Canelo for his 168-pound titles is being finalized for Sept. 13 in Las Vegas 📆 First re...
02/07/2025

A deal for Bud Crawford to fight Canelo for his 168-pound titles is being finalized for Sept. 13 in Las Vegas 📆
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The Three Fighting Brothers of Leamington Spa; Jackie, Dick and Randolph TurpinCombined Professional Record; 232-63-15 (...
02/07/2025

The Three Fighting Brothers of Leamington Spa; Jackie, Dick and Randolph Turpin

Combined Professional Record; 232-63-15 (118 wins by KO)

Combined Honours Include;

1943 ABA Junior Class A Championship🏆
1944 ABA Junior Class B Championship🏆
1945 ABA Welterweight Championship🏆
1946 ABA Middleweight Championship🏆
BBBofC Midlands Area Featherweight Championship🏆
BBBofC Midlands Area Middleweight Championship🏆
EBU European Middleweight Championship🏆
British Middleweight Championship x2🏆🏆
British Light Heavyweight Championship x3🏆🏆🏆
Commonwealth Middleweight Championship x2🏆🏆
Commonwealth Light Heavyweight Championship🏆
World Middleweight Championship🏆

'When my hands are wrapped, my gloves are on, and I start hitting the mitts, I'm pumped and ready to devastate my oppone...
02/07/2025

'When my hands are wrapped, my gloves are on, and I start hitting the mitts, I'm pumped and ready to devastate my opponent. I calmly wait for the knock on the door. The knock comes and I'm glad. I move toward the moment of truth. Climbing into the ring, I begin hearing the cry of 'Ali! Ali! - the same cry that greeted my father so many years before. The energy from the crowd brings tears to my eyes.

I think of my potential as a role model for young women - especially young black women - looking for guidance and personal strength. As I greet my opponent in the center of the ring, I look dead in her eye and stare deep into her soul to see what she's made of. In my eyes there's not the slightest hint of fear. I can't be intimidated. We go to our corners, the bell sounds, and it's on and cracking.'

- Laila Ali

'The mental is more important than the physical. You know, that voice in your head telling you to give up if it gets tou...
02/07/2025

'The mental is more important than the physical. You know, that voice in your head telling you to give up if it gets tough. That's my main opponent - making sure that if your body wants to stop, your mind won't let you.'

- Anthony Joshua

'A man goes past five or six rounds with me he knows he's been in a fight. There are no two ways about it. There sure ai...
02/07/2025

'A man goes past five or six rounds with me he knows he's been in a fight. There are no two ways about it. There sure ain't no coming out like fresh money.'

- Thomas Hearns

From one of boxing's greatest upsets to one of boxing's greatest tragedies.Randolph 'The Leamington Licker' Turpin 1928-...
02/07/2025

From one of boxing's greatest upsets to one of boxing's greatest tragedies.

Randolph 'The Leamington Licker' Turpin 1928-1966.

Randolph's father Lionel was a solider originally from Guyana but settled in Britain with his new wife after the 1st World War. He met Randolph's mother, Beatrice shortly after being released from hospital after receiving treatment for injuries he'd gotten during the Battle of the Somme.

Born in Leamington Spa and raised in Warwick, Warwickshire, Randolph, also known as 'Licker' or 'Randy' to close friends and family, was the youngest of 5 children and would sadly lose his father when he was still only a baby - his father died from lung damage sustained during a mustard gas attack some years earlier.

His mother struggled to make ends meet, working long hours as a cleaner but eventually had to send some of the children to live with relatives to ensure they were fed and looked after. She remarried in 1931 to a gentleman named Ernest Manley and with the extra money coming in the family were reunited and Ernest assumed the role of their father.

Randolph nearly died as a young boy after being trapped under water while swimming and then once again when he caught pneumonia but survived both incidents, even though the prior left him partially deaf in one ear. Randolph and his siblings soon learned to take care of themselves, being on the receiving end of racism regularly. Their mother Beatrice would encourage the children to fight back and defend themselves, as the daughter of a bare knuckle fighter herself she would not stand for any bullying.

Randolph started boxing in booths at local fairs with his brother Jackie (real name John) where spectators would throw change into the ring depending on how impressed they were. He boxed out of Leamington Boys Club and continued to box during his time in the Royal Navy. His Amateur Record was 98-2, winning 3 National Titles, both the junior & senior ABA championship in 1945 and then another senior ABA championship in 1946.

Turpin turned professional later that year and was unbeaten in his first 19 fights. His first loss came in 1948 to Albert Finch, it was around this time Turpin's private life was affecting his performance inside the ring. Turpin lost again that year, this time to Jean Stock and this seemed to snap Turpin back into the right frame of mind.

Turpin began to train harder than ever, working on his strength in particular and the effort began to pay off. Turpin embarked on a campaign which not only saw him win 22 fights in a row, but saw him avenge his loss to Jean Stock, capture the British Title while avenging his loss to Albert Finch, win the European Title and to top it off, in 1951 Turpin caused one of the biggest upsets in sporting history, beating arguably the greatest pound for pound boxer of all time, Sugar Ray Robinson to capture the World Middleweight Title.

Turpin became the 1st British boxer to be crowned World Champion since Bob Fitzsimmons in 1891 and with that, he became the Nation's hero. Robinson had made Turpin sign a 90 day rematch clause and their 2nd fight was to take place at The Polo Grounds, New York. The fight was pretty even through the first 9 rounds but then Robinson suffered a bad cut in round 10 and out of a sense of urgency went in for the kill. A stiff right hand dropped Turpin and although he managed to beat the count, Robinson pinned him against the ropes and unloaded on Turpin until the referee stopped the fight.

Turpin was devastated by the loss and although he never again challenged for a world title, he went on to fight in another 30 contests, switching between Middleweight and Light-Heavyweight. Of those 30 fights, Turpin won 25 and won both the British and Commonwealth Light-Heavyweight titles, the Commonwealth Middleweight Title as well as regaining the British Middleweight Title.

He retired in 1964 with a record of 66-8-1 (45 wins by KO) and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

Turpin's life after boxing was one of financial difficulties and tragedy. Turpin, who wasn't very astute when it came to managing his finances found himself in hot water with the Inland Revenue and filed for bankruptcy. People who knew Turpin would say he was not shy of spending his earnings and would regularly hand over large sums of money to people in need but was very poor at keeping track of his finances.

His debts and his feeling of bitterness towards boxing and the people he felt had exploited him during his career left him in a state of depression. On the occasions when the subject of boxing came up, Turpin would try his best to change the subject.

On the 17th May 1966, Randolph Turpin was found dead in his apartment above the Transport Cafe he owned with gunshot wounds to both his head and heart. His daughter Carmen, just 17 months old was also found with two gunshot wounds, although she would go on to make a miraculous recovery.

Although it was assumed Randolph shot his daughter before turning the gun on himself, many who were close to Turpin have always suspected foul play. Turpin was said to be a doting and loving father to his children and had said on several occasions that he and his family were in danger, something he implied was due to some financial dealings relating back to his boxing career.

Turpin's death came less than a year after
Freddie Mills' apparent su***de, Mills was also a Former World Champion boxer. Again, those close to Mills suspected foul play, claiming he was killed by London Gangsters.

Today there stands a statue of Randolph Turpin, in Warwick's Town Square with a plaque commemorating his achievements in the ring.

'I'm somebody from a little tiny town, who had boxed in leisure centres, and my last fight was in Madison Square Garden ...
02/07/2025

'I'm somebody from a little tiny town, who had boxed in leisure centres, and my last fight was in Madison Square Garden against one of the greats. What a great way to finish off.' - Joe Calzaghe

'When I was a kid it really meant something to be a boxer. If there was a fighter in the neighborhood, just any kind of ...
02/07/2025

'When I was a kid it really meant something to be a boxer. If there was a fighter in the neighborhood, just any kind of a fighter, we followed him around like puppies. If anybody had asked us, would you rather be heavyweight champion or President, we wouldn't have hesitated for a minute.... And the fighters lived up to their position.They were tougher and better conditioned: they had more pride in what they were doing. Sometimes they'd get knocked down 10 times in a fight—and come on to win.'

- Cus D'Amato

'The muscles of the shoulders play the most important part in the delivery of a hard blow. Take any boxer who has finely...
02/07/2025

'The muscles of the shoulders play the most important part in the delivery of a hard blow. Take any boxer who has finely developed back and shoulder muscles and you will find that he is a stout hitter. No matter how weak his biceps and forearm may be, in comparison with those of his shoulders and back, if the latter have the power he will be what is commonly known as a knocker-out.''

- Bob Fitzsimmons

'l Iearned to aim for my opponent's tempIe, or for his heart. lt sounds brutaI, but boxing is a brutaI business. Most sp...
02/07/2025

'l Iearned to aim for my opponent's tempIe, or for his heart. lt sounds brutaI, but boxing is a brutaI business. Most spectators seem to think that the jaw is the primary target, or maybe the soIar plexus. Perhaps it is with some fighters, but l Iearned to Iook for the tempIe and the heart and the Iiver. Hit a man in the Iiver and his pain is excruciating.'

- Sugar Ray Robinson

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