[Rocco Del Sesto]

I started looking at Lloyd Walford, Jamaican heavyweight from the 1960s to mid 1970s. A fighter I did a rating on back around 2004 I think. Very early in the history of New HW Boxers Rated. I'm going to use him to kind take a deep dive look at British boxing back in the 1960s-70s as part of ongoing The Big Men of Boxing a Retrospective. But, doing this kind deep dive approach I'm not going to look at Walford exclusively to work through his entire care and post that history and rating here. I decided I'd pick his history apart fight by fight through his career. Look into also his opponents and their careers some. Part of this looking into the history more of British heavyweight boxing in general in this time period. 60s and 70s has always been my favorite era of boxing. I have all the Boxing News, Ring and Boxing Illustrated from this time period so I have a good source for information.

I'd done some looking at old boxing venues and referees in the past and plan to dive into those also as I work through Walford and his opponents' careers. Looking to focus this Big Men Retrospective project instead of kind of ranging all over the place.

That said, here is a boxing Venue I've come across. Found a couple nice photos I believe is the building mentioned in fight accounts in Boxing News. Couldn't find much on it's history at all, but, If you are interested in British boxing at all, it can add to your boxing fantasy world.

Corn Exchange
Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England
Gate a site rating of 1 with capacity of 500.

From a Pinterest site, In the Middle of Doncaster Markets stands the 1870's Corn Exchange which is now restored and refurbished after a serious fire in 1994.

Boxing events took place as early as the 1920s. BoxingHistory.org.uk has record of fights that took place far back as 1920. No information found on the seating capacity for the boxing mataches. Assume it to be fairly small.