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When former light-heavyweight pro and amateur trainer Phil Martin, 14-6 (6), turned a building that had lain derelict for over a decade in the riot hit district of Moss Side into a boxing gym in 1982 few could have imagined just how far-reaching the impact of the Princess Park road-based gym, which he named Champs Camp, would become as it rose out of the ashes left by the two-days of rioting in July 1981.
Two thousand pounds of personal savings and a few jumble sales provided Martin with the start-up money; he used this investment to create an high-tech environment for a conveyor belt of British champions—four of them held British titles simultaneously by 1993: Carl Thompson (cruiserweight), Frank Grant (middleweight), Maurice Core (light-heavyweight) and Paul Burke (lightweight).
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Two thousand pounds of personal savings and a few jumble sales provided Martin with the start-up money; he used this investment to create an high-tech environment for a conveyor belt of British champions—four of them held British titles simultaneously by 1993: Carl Thompson (cruiserweight), Frank Grant (middleweight), Maurice Core (light-heavyweight) and Paul Burke (lightweight).
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