SWEET JIMMY

SteveBunce

@BigDaddyBunce

Voice of boxing

TT would be hard to invent the twists, wicked turns, joy and chaos of Jimmy Cable’s boxing year in 1984. Not to mention the rest of his life.

After a quick win on cuts in January 1984, Cable was back in the Royal Albert Hall ring 22 days later to win the British light-middleweight title in an old-fashioned war with Nick Wilshire. There was no rest for Cable, he was fighting to never have to decorate a house, paint a wall or labour on a building site ever again. That is called battling a dream.

Cable was 26 at the time. His record