Young Joseph
Nov 18, 2021
2 minutes
Alex Daley
@thealexdaley
Historian & author
EVERYONE in the East End knew him, but he was far from an advertisement for his former profession. To fightmad schoolboys, too young to have known him as a boxer, it was hard to reconcile the figure they saw now with that of the one-time king of Britain and Europe, a man who had fought Freddie Welsh, Georges Carpentier
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