Dougie’s Monday Mailbag (Britain’s best, Marcel Cerdan, national rivalries)

BEST OF BRITISH BOXING

Hi Dougie,

This lockdown has given me the chance to review my boxing archives and rewatch a load of fights I haven’t seen for many years.

I first started watching in the UK in the mid 1980s with the likes of Barry McGuigan, Herol Graham and Lloyd Honeyghan. At that time there was no cable TV, satellite TV or the Internet so we had a very limited menu. Apart from very occasional highlights packages from the US (eg Hagler v Leonard, Tyson) all we had was domestic boxing on terrestrial channels.