prizefighter

Coming hastily across the room towards them, already out of breath as though with much hurrying, was a thick-set, powerful man, with the brutal face and coarse lips of a prizefighter; a beard cropped so short as to seem the growth of a few days only covered his chin, and his moustache, treated in the same way, was not thick enough to conceal a cruel mouth.

A brougham was coming sedately down the street from Piccadilly; to my horror, it stopped behind me as I peered once more through the letter-box, and out tumbled the dishevelled prizefighter and two companions.

Sometimes, when in the newspapers I happen upon descriptions of our modern bruisers and prizefighters, I wonder what chance the best of them would have had against him.

Expenses McTaggart won nothing but praise and the distinction of having a sports centre named in his honour in his native Dundee but he recognised the Prizefighter format as memory jogger and money-spinner.

For this is the crazy life of the Gary Lockett-trained fighter who was catapulted from nowhere in January to win a place on Sky's welterweight Prizefighter and then bagged the runners-up prize of PS16,000.

CITY boxers Derry Mathews and Stephen Jennings are primed and ready as the action-packed Prizefighter series returns to Liverpool this weekend.

EAMONN O'KANE'S Prizefighter joy was quickly replaced by despair on Saturday night after his victory was followed by the defeat of his close friend Paul McCloskey.

Cardiff's Buckland is the only man to have beaten the 27-year-old, having stopped him in just 45 seconds in the semi-final of November's Prizefighter tournament.

DOUGIE Walton has his fingers crossed an actionpacked ring return at Bedworth Civic Hall on Saturday night will lead to a Prizefighter chance.