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BOXING’S UNCROWNED CHAMPION

Simon Euan-Smith

simonoldtimers@googlemail.com

EBA correspondent

OVER the years I’ve more than once mentioned middleweight Len Johnson, who was born in Manchester in 1902 but denied the chance to contest the British title because of the colour bar in force at the time (his father was from Sierra Leone). He won a bout in Australia advertised as for the British Empire title, and made two successful defences

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