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Originally Posted by Baby Cox
First off I know nothing about boxing apart from I like it. So forgive the lack of knowlnledge and lanaguge I have no business being here on this detailed orientated fact site. All I know about this shot for now according to Daddy Cox who I just spoke with on the phone you are right about the event Rocco and it was held in some pub in Hackney opposite the old Hackey hospital..........He said he did not think the pub was still there. From what he can place of the shot from memory he said one of the boxers is John strati (not sure of spelling)...he thinks most of them were welter weights? Also in the original picture is my father's old trainer Harry Griver who is sitting on a stool on the stage. He said that he has not seen this picture for a long time and I would very much like to show the full image to him. For a man who spent his life with fists being thumped into his head (which from what I can tell he did most of the thumping to be honest) His memory on some of the details on his career is fascinating. I mean this is an old photo that he is trying to place. He also said that there were some real world champs up there on stage with him.......which he can't be clear on right now. He claims he never fought Paul Cassidy but, he has heard of Phil Cox. My father has a great vivid memory of some of his fights and small details.
More please.
Baby Cox.....
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Hello,
Great to see your posts and getting to know you! I got information about Des from some old Boxing News magazines that I'd collected. That photo of Des playing the sax came from one of those magazines. I could make a scan of the whole photo and send it to you. I'm thinking I ran across at least one other photo of him. I'll go back through them and see what I find. I could if you like even scan what articles there were of his fights in the magazines. Would you like that? I always wondered why his career just all of a sudden seemed to end? Did he just decide boxing was not his life?
Did he have an amatuer career before turning pro? Most boxers of course would. These Boxing News magazines also covered amatuer boxing and have run across photos and articles about some fighters as amatuers before they turned pro. Since I'd posted this photo I've since collected some earlier magazines that would probably cover when/if he fought as an amatuer and so I might look through them just for the wild chance there might be something there?
I got interested in British boxing awhile back and the past 3 years have been collecting copies of the Boxing New from the 1960's to find out about more fighters from the UK for Title Bout.
Great to hear from you. I'll look start looking back through the magazines to find the photos/articles and get back to you.
Rocco Del Sesto