Step back into the 1950s and 60s, when boxing reigned supreme in America. Legends like Rocky Marciano and Sugar Ray Robinson ...
The arrival of television in the 1950s marked a turning point in the industry. Broadcast contracts began to generate new sources of income, expanding boxing's audience and, with it, the purses.
Sporting news from the 1950s in Inverclyde tells of a Greenock boxers success and the Wanderers RFC match is in doubt.