Mickey Duff
Mickey Duff (7 June 1929 – 22 March 2014), was a Polish-born British boxer, manager and promoter.[1][2]
Life and career
He was born Monek Prager in Kraków, Poland. His father was a rabbi, and the family fled the Nazis, emigrating to England in the late 1930s. Having turned professional as a boxer illegally aged 15, Duff retired aged 19. After working as a salesman, including selling sewing machines, Duff returned to boxing to make matches across the UK. A new team began to form in the wake of Jack Solomons, with match maker Duff, manager Jarvis Astaire, and promoter Harry Levene becoming key via a media partnership mainly via the BBC.[citation needed]
Duff was involved with 16 world champions and many leading British fighters, including Frank Bruno,[3] Joe Calzaghe, John Conteh, Terry Downes, Lloyd Honeyghan, Maurice Hope, Charlie Magri, Alan Minter, John H Stracey, Jim Watt and Howard Winstone.
After the rise of Frank Warren through his partnership with ITV and Sky TV, Duff retired. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1999. Duff died at a nursing home in south London on 22 March 2014 from natural causes at the age of 84, having had Alzheimer's disease.[4][5]
Notes
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References
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/11/13/somott13.html
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- Professional boxing record for Mickey Duff from BoxRec
External links
- Articles with unsourced statements from March 2014
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- 1929 births
- 2014 deaths
- Sportspeople from Kraków
- Jewish boxers
- British boxers
- Polish boxers
- British boxing promoters
- British people of Polish-Jewish descent
- Polish Jews
- British Jews
- Polish emigrants to the United Kingdom
- Male boxers