The lost treasures of 1970s boxing
Footage of fighters like Tim Wood and Phil Martin boxing in the 1970s is hard to come by, writes Miles Templeton
IN a recent article on Alan Richardson, I commented that he “is another of those champions from the 1970s that is in danger of being forgotten.” I do not know the exact reason why the 1970s, considered by so many to be a golden age, produced so many good scrappers that rarely get a mention today, but I suspect that it may be because so little of what they achieved in the ring is readily available on film.