ONE of the finest fighters never to have won a British title is, unquestionably, Birmingham’s Owen Moran.
At the time that Moran was active, between 1900 and 1916, the British title really came into its own as a prestigious championship. By 1909, when the Lonsdale Belt was established, all eight weight categories had only one undisputed champion.
Moran boxed between bantamweight and lightweight during his lengthy