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RIP Jack Bodell



Poyningsgull

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Apr 12, 2007
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Died today just 76. An honest to goodness British heavyweight Champion boxer who lost his title to our Henry but won it back against Joe Bugner. Unfortunately suffered with Alzheimers in later life. I remember him well.
 








wolfie

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Jul 19, 2003
1,659
Warwickshire
Didn't he also fight Sir Kenneth Clarke at Wembley for the Oxford Chair of Fine Art in a Python sketch ?
 
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GT49er

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Feb 1, 2009
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Gloucester
Died today just 76. An honest to goodness British heavyweight Champion boxer who lost his title to our Henry but won it back against Joe Bugner. Unfortunately suffered with Alzheimers in later life. I remember him well.

Remember him now. Classic case of a fighter who went on three fights too long - three crushing 1st./2nd, round KOs/stoppages in his last three fights - against hard hitting opponents (Quarry, Urtain and MacAllinden) - can't have been good for him.

Anyway, RIP Jack from Swadlincote.
 


wolfie

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Jul 19, 2003
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Warwickshire
He once ran a fish and chip shop in Coventry and was visited there by Muhammad Ali (true)

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Wellesley

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Jul 24, 2013
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He once ran a fish and chip shop in Coventry and was visited there by Muhammad Ali (true)

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Cod-piece, battered, left haddock. There's got to be a joke in there somewhere.
 

















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