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His first major win was over Les Dunn to become Victorian Featherweight champion in 1964, then he was Commonwealth Featherweight champion in 1967 after defeating the Scot, Johnny O'Brien. He became WBC Featherweight champion on 21 January 1969 after he defeated the Cuban Jose Legra on points at the Albert Hall in London. He defended his crown against Fighting Harada of Japan and won in a controversial decision; he won against Harada in Japan six months later, knocking him out in the fourteenth round. He lost a close bout in Rome to Mexican Vicente Saldivar on 9th May 1970, retiring afterwards. He was trained by Ambrose Palmer throughout his professional career and never fought as an amateur. He lives in Melbourne, Australia - part of the time in the suburb of Aspendale. He is the only World featherweight champion never to have been knocked out. Reach: 66 Height: 5' 5½" (166cm) In 1971, he wrote an Autobiography called ''Fammo''. He was badly injured when hit by a car whilst jogging outside Sydney's Warwick Farm racecourse in 1991, and after being in a coma for ten days, has been making a slow recovery since. For three years he could not move from a wheelchair. Now he uses a walking stick instead and his speech and memory have improved. He married Glenys Bussey in June 1997, having met her in 1990. He was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in Los Angeles in 1997. See http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=011519 for details of his fight record. |
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