27 July 2009:
SPORT NEWS 33: I was a young fan of boxing in the 1950s. I can remember many stories: Randy Turpin defeating the great Sugar Ray Robinson for the World middleweight crown, then losing the return 64 days later; the commentary at about 4 o’clock in the morning when Rocky Marciano crushed Britain’s Don Cockell; the awful news (which left me in floods of tears) that my great hero, the Welsh flyweight Dai Dower, the most brilliant and stylish boxer in the world, I thought, had been humiliated, knocked out by almost the first two punches thrown by the World flyweight Champion, Pascual Perez.