TEENAGE KICKS
Aug 27, 2020
2 minutes
Miles Templeton
Boxing historian
IN my last article I stated that Ted Kid Lewis won the British featherweight title at 17. This was long thought to be the case although there was much uncertainty over the matter. It is now believed that young Ted falsified the year of his birth and records books of the period list him as being born in both 1894 and 1896.
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