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A Social History of Sheffield Boxing, Volume IICity of Champions

A Social History of Sheffield Boxing, Volume II: City of Champions [Johnny Nelson was scared of boxing but ended up as one of Britain’s most enduring world champions. Brash and arrogant, Naseem Hamed possessed a natural talent unmatched in Sheffield’s boxing history. Bradford-born Junior Witter did it the hard way, but despite becoming a world champion was forever in the shadow of his contemporary Ricky Hatton. Kell Brook beat an American in America to win the world title but did not get the recognition he deserved. These successes raised Sheffield’s profile as a boxing city, which in the 1990s and 2000s produced two more world champions. Being scarcely remembered in his home city was hard enough for Paul ‘Silky’ Jones to bear, but being forgotten by the body whose world title he won was something else. Clinton Woods took up boxing to lose weight, but ended up—to his own surprise—becoming a world champion.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Social History of Sheffield Boxing, Volume IICity of Champions

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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978-3-030-63552-7
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83 –161
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10.1007/978-3-030-63553-4_3
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[Johnny Nelson was scared of boxing but ended up as one of Britain’s most enduring world champions. Brash and arrogant, Naseem Hamed possessed a natural talent unmatched in Sheffield’s boxing history. Bradford-born Junior Witter did it the hard way, but despite becoming a world champion was forever in the shadow of his contemporary Ricky Hatton. Kell Brook beat an American in America to win the world title but did not get the recognition he deserved. These successes raised Sheffield’s profile as a boxing city, which in the 1990s and 2000s produced two more world champions. Being scarcely remembered in his home city was hard enough for Paul ‘Silky’ Jones to bear, but being forgotten by the body whose world title he won was something else. Clinton Woods took up boxing to lose weight, but ended up—to his own surprise—becoming a world champion.]

Published: Jan 5, 2021

Keywords: Johnny Nelson; Naseem Hamed; Junior Witter; Clinton Woods

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