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From: Dai Bevan <>
Subject: Re: [Dyfed] Re: A prizefighter
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:28:43 +0100
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Are you thinking of Howard Winstone? He was around a few years earlier than
Johnny Owen.

Dai


wrote:
>
> We had some people from the BBC at our Church this morning. They were in Los
> Angeles to do a documentary about Johnny Owen, the prizefighter that was
> killed in a fight here in Los Angeles in 1980. Johnny Owen came from
> Merthyr Tydfil.
>
> In talking about Johnny Owen, one of our members mentioned another
> prizefighter who was in Los Angeles at the same time. He was a welter-weight
> fighter, also born in Merthyr. Nobody could remember his name. Does anyone
> on the list know who I am talking about?
>
> It was not Tommy Farr. That name came up too.
>
> Thanks, Annie
>
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