Alan Minter...

[VICENTE]

From what I was told he was the man back in the day! I got introduced to him at work today... Just in-case any boxing fans know who he is

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Crawley boy.

Great boxer.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Here he is being introduced to the Goldstone crowd pre-match in March 1980...

Brighton 1-0 Nottingham Forest 1979/80 (15 mins) - YouTube

 

[Rugrat]

Went down to his Dad's (Sid Minter) drinking club a couple of times somewhere around Regency Sq if I remember right. Bit scary for an 18 yo, saw the boy there once ... nodded at him and left!

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

Well he was,until he bumped into Marvelous Marvin

Got beat by Sibbo too

He was good though

 

[Ernest]

Nasty bit of work when he had a drink in him

 

[wigman]

He was introduced to the crowd at half time at our home game with Nottingham Forest in 1980.
We had won one- nil and he was World Champion at the time.

 

[Safeway]

Featured on 'World of Sport: 1980s' tonight as well.

 

[Frutos]

Just in-case any boxing fans know who he is

Anyone (certainly in this country) who claims to be a boxing fan, but doesn't know who he is....isn't.

 

[Ernest]

Got ripped to shreds by Hagler and was never the same after that

 

[levski seagull]

I remember being allowed to stay up late to watch his title fight against vito antofermo (sp?), he had a victory parade around crawley when he came back with the belt. Unfortunately he came up against hagler, a beast of a boxer but he gave it his best shot.

 

[n1 gull]

Hagler destroyed him, didn't it then kick off in the crowd, I seem to remember all sorts going on?

 

[Ernest]

Hagler destroyed him, didn't it then kick off in the crowd, I seem to remember all sorts going on?

The racist element latched onto certain comments Minter made pre fight

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Got ripped to shreds by Hagler and was never the same after that

I remember it will.

He got BATTERED, and then the crowd went COMPLETLEY MAD beer bottles lobbed into the ring, fights in the crowd. As you say, he was never the same fighter after that night.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

I think, not sure, that his son is/was a boxer too?

 

[VICENTE]

Chap who introduced me said his title fight with Vito Antofermo was v good. Yeah he stank of booze when he came in our shop and it was only when I signalled to my colleague about this he came over and told me who he was... seemed a friendly chap with a couple of drinks in him

I remember being allowed to stay up late to watch his title fight against vito antofermo (sp?), he had a victory parade around crawley when he came back with the belt. Unfortunately he came up against hagler, a beast of a boxer but he gave it his best shot.

 

[Ernest]

I think, not sure, that his son is/was a boxer too?

Ross Minter

 

[Silk]

Here he is being introduced to the Goldstone crowd pre-match in March 1980...

Brighton 1-0 Nottingham Forest 1979/80 (15 mins) - YouTube

I was there.

 

[Twizzle]

Minter killed another lad in the ring, I recall he was considering quitting right then.
It had an effect on him as a sporting man

 

[topbanana36]

Alan Minter was a good fighter used to cut easily though, gave my dad a signed photo of himself for me, pleased as punch as an 8 year old. One of the best boxers to come out of sussex.