This article heralds the arrival of Paul Lincoln fighters on TV. Alan Sarjeant is due to fight Mcmanus live who the article reminds us has never lost on TV. Sarjeant believes he can win and from a 1966 perspective this would have seemed a fight well worth watching.
You Tube has the 1974 match between these two with Walton telling us the fans sense an upset.Is it not suprising that by the mid 1970's things seemed a bit repetitive and stale?
1965 was undoubtedly the peak year for TV viewers and also broadcasts on BBC2