Edinburgh’s Mr Boxing
Dec 02, 2021
2 minutes
Alex Daley
@thealexdaley
Historian & author
TODAY, Glasgow is widely seen as the spiritual home of Scottish boxing, but in the 1920s, when the sport first flourished north of the border, Edinburgh was the nation’s boxing epicentre. This was largely thanks to the ambition and entrepreneurial flair of one pioneering promoter – Nat Dresner.
Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Leith
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