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Jimmy Flint still a winner

One of my earliest boxing memories is at the Albert Hall with Jimmy Flint standing over a pole-axed opponent, I can't remember who, having hit him with the biggest punch I have ever seen. Flint was Southern Area featherweight champion in an era when being a Southern Area champion could see you as a regular on Grandstand.
One of the Terry Lawless team, his attempts at winning a British title were thwarted by Pat Cowdell and he also boxed on the night of the "Tijuana Tumblers", the notorious night at the Albert Hall when three supposedly decent Mexican imports were dispatched in a combined total of seven rounds. Those were days when the record of an import was a complete mystery and being photographed with a fur coat could in anyway be seen as cool.
Last week, at Wilton's Music Hall, just off Cable Street, in the East End, Flint took to the stage with a one-man show entitled Wapping Assassin, his old nickname.

The Top 50 featherweights ever

After the middleweights, we are taking a move down the weight categories to try and list the greatest 9st boxers of all time. It has been a division full of talent throughout the years, right back to the days of Abe Attell, through the likes of Henry Armstrong (pictured, left), Willie Pep, Sandy Saddler, Vicente Saldivar, Salvador Sanchez, Azumah Nelson, Eusebio Pedrosa, Barry McGuigan right through to the likes of Naseem Hamed, Erik Morales and Marco Antonio Barrera (pictured, right).

London notes

Enzo Calzaghe is a busy man these days with three world champions in his Cwmcarn gym, all of whom are in action in the next two months. On Wednesday, Enzo was at the Peacock gym in Canning Town, East London, to take Enzo Maccarinelli through his paces on the pads for the benefit of the media. But he couldn't hang about after, as he was straight back across London to Paddington for a train back to Wales for an evening session with his other two world champions. Gavin Rees is defending his WBA light-welterweight title against Andreas Kotelnik at Cardiff International Arena on March 22, while Enzo's son Joe is facing Bernard Hopkins in Las Vegas on April 19.

Harrison found not guilty of assaulting police officer

Scott Harrison could soon be a licensed boxer again. The two-time WBO featherweight champion appeared in court in Glasgow on Monday to answer charges relating to an incident in a Glasgow pub in April 2006 and things went as well as he could have hoped.

Harrison admitted charges of breach of the peace and resisting arrest, but was found not guilty of a potentially more damaging charge of assaulting a police officer.