NeilsYard
Coventry |
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Fri 15th Sep 2023 3:02pm
Doesn't mention Bedworth on any of his Bouts on that Wiki list Not Local but good spotting. |
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Helen F
Warrington |
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Fri 15th Sep 2023 3:05pm
Copied from before - the poster in the background shows a fight between Les Allen and Jack Coffee Johnson. According to this site, at the Arden Ballroom, Bedworth on 1/3/1954 Les Allen fought Jack Johnson Cofi from Ghana. Assuming this was Jack and not one of the other fighters mentioned on the poster. |
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Bedworth |
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Fri 15th Sep 2023 8:54pm
The poster has Les Allen and Jack Johnson Cofi in larger print and at the top. It figures that the local hero would be 'top of the bill'. |
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Annewiggy
Tamworth |
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Sat 16th Sep 2023 11:17am
I would not think this was a shot being taken before a fight in the Arden as surely his name would still be on the poster. In newspaper articles it was announced that A match had been arranged in Italy for him to fight Tiberio Mitrio in a title fight in April, and another February article says his next fight was to be March 30th at Earls Court. So possibly this was just a promotional picture, perhaps for his Tuf-wear shorts ! |
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Bedworth |
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Sat 16th Sep 2023 8:52pm
I would agree that this is a promotional picture, either for a newspaper or a boxing magazine. Back in the early 1950's this was the only way that most of the general public could get to see what these boxing champions looked like. We have to remember that very few people had televisions back then. It was a bit like putting out a promotional video today. The picture was probably taken in the gym where Randolph Turpin was training so that would have been Leamington, Warwick or Coventry. I read somewhere that the Turpin brothers did use a boxing gym at the back of a pub in King Street, Bedworth so it might just have been there. The poster advertising future local fights would have been a common feature around all of the local boxing gyms. |
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Mon 18th Sep 2023 3:22pm
Hi all - caption time:
Jack Johnson Cofi of Ghana in a promotional photograph for an upcoming bout. The poster behind refers to a match between Les Allen and Jack Coffee Johnson at the Arden Ballroom, Bedworth on 1/3/1954. Johnson was known for using a gym on King Street in Bedworth also used by Randolph Turpin's brothers.
Seem reasonable? b p kyneswood
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Mon 18th Sep 2023 5:10pm
b p kyneswood
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