Just in case you feared Contributing Photographer & Ex-Boxer John Claridge had substituted slap for punches, swapped the boxing ring for the circus ring and run away to join the Clowns, I am publishing Round Eleven of his monumental series of intimate portraits of Boxers, taken courtesy of our good friends at London Ex-Boxers Association.
Tim Cowen (First fight 1952 – Last fight 1958)
Tony Barrett (First fight 1952 – Last fight 1957)
Alan Wood (First fight 1955 – Last fight 1956)
Charles Jeffries (First fight 1946 – Last fight 1952)
James Wise (Fought in 1968)
John Micallef -“I’m Maltese, I came here to turn professional but they wouldn’t give me a licence. It was the end of my career.” (First fight 1946 – Last fight 1947)
Ken Selleck (Sports Writer, Hackney Gazette, & Boxer in 1956)
Peter Shevlane (Schoolboy champion 1956)
John Madden (First fight 1947 – Last fight 1951)
Photographs copyright © John Claridge
Take a look at
John Claridge’s Boxers (Round One)
John Claridge’s Boxers (Round Two)
John Claridge’s Boxers (Round Three)
John Claridge’s Boxers (Round Four)
John Claridge’s Boxers (Round Five)
John Claridge’s Boxers (Round Six)
John Claridge’s Boxers (Round Seven)
John Claridge’s Boxers (Round Eight)
John Claridge’s Boxers (Round Nine)
and
John Claridge’s Clowns (Act One)
John Claridge’s Clowns (Act Two)
and these other pictures by John Claridge
Along the Thames with John Claridge
At the Salvation Army with John Claridge
A Few Diversions by John Claridge
Signs, Posters, Typography & Graphics
Views from a Dinghy by John Claridge
In Another World with John Claridge
A Few Pints with John Claridge
Some East End Portraits by John Claridge
Sunday Morning Stroll with John Claridge