BACK in 1912, when the Cosmopolitan Gymnasium in Plymouth was one of the most important fight venues in the UK, a young lad who boxed under the name “Rabbitts” stepped into the ring to fight his last professional contest.
Ring names like this were not unusual in the days before licencing and Rabbitts, along with “Black Bob”, “Jago’s Pupil” and “Duffin’s Nipper” fought there many