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Terry Marsh’s life can accurately be described as tumultuous. He went from schoolboy chess tournaments, through to boxing - via the Royal Marines and the fire service - and he then became famous during the 1980’s as the IBF light-welterweight champion of the world. Throw into that mix a career as a bookie, a bit-part TV career, early days spent on a building site and learning to speak Italian ‘out of sheer boredom’ whilst on remand for the attempted murder of promoter Frank Warren in 1989, a charge Marsh was acquitted of in 1990. [details]
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An interesting account
I was interested enough to look up his record. It seems that until his last 2 fights in the first of which he won his World title, he'd been fighting "palookas". Only 26 fights in all, and I think that if he'd continued, he'd have come up against a GOOD fighter to whom he'd probably lose. Yet, in his 2 "World Title fights" as well as stopping both opponents, it looks as if he'd won almost every round.
He gives a very straightforward, honest-seeming account of himself, very nicely laid out by the interviewer; his remarks concerning the too often dismal fate of fighters after retirement are very much to the point, and, I believe, accurate.
I look forward to reading part 2. -
Marsh was a very good fighter. It was a real shame when his career was cut short.Comment
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