Comments Thread For: Billy Graham Reflects Back on The Late Mickey Duff

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Promoter, matchmaker, manager and sometime cornerman Mickey Duff has died today aged 84. The colourful British boxing figure was born in 1929 as Monek Prager in Kraków, Poland. His ***ish family immigrated to England in the 1930s during the rise of the **** Party.

Duff turned professional at 15, circumventing the Board’s laws in the process, only to retire four years later with a 33-8-3 (4) record. After working in sales, he hooked up with promoters Jarvis Astaire and Mike Barrett plus trainer Terry Lawless to form a boxing powerhouse before forging a long-term, exclusive relationship with the BBC. [Click Here To Read More]

[thack]

A true boxing man, a real old school figure r.i.p. mickey you gave us lots of great memories .

[PunchyPotorff]

Great article paying respect to a brilliant man in the sport. I briefly met Mickey back in the 80s, may have been at the Tubbs/Witherspoon title fight in Atlanta. All the boxing people knew him, spoke with him, asked his advice. R.I.P. Mr. Duff. Thanx for all you gave to boxing.

[londoner]

Mickey Duff was the perfect example of how immigrants should always be integrated into the society of whatever country they enter. He was born Polish but nobody was more a Londoner than Mickey. Anybody meeting him would never have thought for a second he was anything else. RIP.