Sorry about the 'Eastern'. Comes from watching the fights rather than reading about them. 'Easton Assassin' is correct. I thought it was because he was from Eastern United States!
OK, this one seems dead in the water. Larry Holmes' last fight was when he was a 52 year-old grandfather. He was flabby and phenomenally less powerful. His accuracy hadn't left him, though. please log in to view this image He fought Eric Esch, more commonly known as 'Butterbean'. Esch was five inches shorter but weighed five and a half stones more than the flabby, taller Holmes. He was also twenty years younger than the former world champ. But Esch had never fought more than four rounds. It went ten and Holmes got the decision. As a fight it is a sideshow of mismatched variables. In a practice possibly started by Bernard Hopkins (I think he was the first, or at least the first well known fighter to do it), Esch had his massive back covered with a huge, henna-dyed advert for 'GoldenPalace.com'. This was known as 'skinvertising' and popular because the fighter would get 100% of its revenue - no one else's sticky fingers would take any of the money it generated. The 'fight' is on YouTube. Who managed Tommy Hicks, Reg Patterson, Ron Wycherley and Clive Powell?
Sorry Andy I could only find Something about turkeys...and boxing is not a sport I have really had any interest in ....
Some blasts from the past there - all changed their names to become famous singers: Tommy Hicks became Tommy Steele Reg Patterson became Marty Wilde Ron Wycherley became Billy Fury Clive Powell became Georgie Fame. And they were all managed by Larry Parnes.
Correct, BB. Brilliantly satirised by Muir and Nordon, with the stunning vocal talent of Mr Sellers: http://www.epicure.demon.co.uk/twit.html Over to thee.
Ok - an easy one for a Sunday morning... 1) Which is the only country with three currently ranked World #1 tennis players? 2) Name the players.
jerzeypie told me the answer to this last night. Theo, you're right but according to the ITF they are all officially classed as British. Andy Murray, Jamie Murray with his Brazilian doubles partner and Gordon Reid. Given how fast she's moving up the rankings, could Johanna Konta be the first ever female British number 1 during her career?
And according to the media - when they are winning. But more importantly, they see themselves as Scottish.
Is this to do with Sir Edwin Sandys, who was a founder of the Virginia Company? He was MP for Worcester but Charles I thought that he wanted to set up a republic in Virginia and had him deselected. He later became an MP somewhere else. His sons were on the side of Parliament during the Civil War. As for ending, all the members of the Jamestown colony died and the Virginia company went bust.
A bit different to what I was thinking about - a team overseas with America in the name which was founded by a person or people from Worcestershire but no longer exists!
