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Yolande Pompey teaches his cousin Irvin Allen to box at The Thomas A’Becket in January 1957. Allen would go on to act in three James Bond films, most notably playing villain “Che Che”opposite George Lazenby in “Her Majesty’s Secret Service”
“The eye-tye was the dirtiest bugger I have ever come across” Henry Cooper shows of the damage to his Ampro bodyguard after a series of below the belt shots from Piero Tomasoni during his 1969 win in Italy. Cooper would be peppered with fruit and bread as he recovered in the ring
West Ham heavyweight sensation Billy Walker preparing for his fifth professional bout at The Thomas A’Becket in November 1962. The ticket selling phenomenon would flatten Canadian lumberjack Phonse La Saga at Wembley later that week in front of another bumper crowd.