That idea, seems to be pretty much dead in the water then?
‘’McManus's introduction to the sport began in 1947 when he joined the John Ruskin Amateur Wrestling Club. Two years later he won his first title, the British welterweight championship, but had moved up to middleweight by the late Sixties and clinched the British middleweight championship in 1967 and the European equivalent the following year.”
Before I’m told to write one hundred lines of “I must try to not write misleading titles” I shall in my defense point out, that over the years, here on Heritage, Mick’s claim has popped up every so often and I was hoping to put a stop to it. However, perhaps I could muddy the waters by asking, was it Mick who first presented the claim? (Poster and and handbill experts from around the country will be frantically perusing their collection to winkle out the dastardly promoter who may have propagated the lie).😎
Apologies to those who may have thought they were to be reading a list of Mick’s Down Under scuffles, based on my errant ‘thread title’