Notes And References

(1) The Times (WEEKEND), August 24, 1996, page 1. It is not clear from this article if this is for Great Britain or the United Kingdom, but in view of the size of this figure, that is academic.
(2) It is not specified but presumably this is for Great Britain, ie England, Scotland and Wales only.
(3) A term coined, apparently, by Times journalist Bernard Levin.
(4) See for example, Women-first road rescue schemes ruled as sexist, by Kevin Eason, published in the Times, July 6, 1996, page 3.
(5) A man was convicted of her murder but was later freed on appeal.
(6) According to the Lancet, September 5, 1959, page 293, boxing was banned in Iceland in 1957. The Times (September 23, 1991, page 3), reported that it has also been banned in Sweden and Norway.
(7) Ie for television.
(8) Other, obvious lines of assault (no pun intended) are shortening the rounds and reducing the lengths of rounds.
(9) McGuigan was quoted in the Times, October 16, 1995, page 23. Twenty-five year old bantamweight James Murray died the previous day following his 12th round knock out loss to Drew Docherty.
(10) Nicky Piper is a member of MENSA and former world heavyweight champion James “Bonecrusher” Smith is a graduate. There was even one boxer who qualified as a doctor!
(11) MY LIFE: An Attempt at an Autobiography, by Leon Trotsky, published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, (1930), page 277. *

* For reasons beyond my control I no longer have access to the 1930 edition alluded to here. As the reader will see, the page linked is actually page 280 rather than page 277. This was taken from the 2018 edition by GlobalGrey. It was added October 3, 2022.


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