Britain’s Brown Bomber

@thealexdaley

Historian & author

ASCENDING boxing’s weight classes – except through natural growth – is rarely a recipe for success, as revealed by the old maxim, ‘a good big ‘un always beats a good little ‘un.’ Back in October 1937, a 21-year-old fighter from Deptford named Tommy Martin set out to disprove the general rule.

Less than two years earlier, Tommy had