Benny Lynch
Benny John Lynch ( born April 2, 1913 in Glasgow, Scotland; † August 6, 1946 ) was a British boxer in the flyweight.
Career
Benny Lynch grew up poor in the Gorbals, an immigrant neighborhood in the south side of Glasgow, on. There he was discovered by the bookmaker Sammy Wilson, who got me exercising with him in his newly opened boxing club and supervised from now on. After a few fights as an amateur Lynch in 1931 on his eighteenth birthday professional boxer. With a victory against the defending champion Jim Campbell he won on May 16, 1934 in Glasgow, the Scottish champion flyweight title.
During the year 1934, he defeated with Carlo Cavagnoli, Valentin Angelmann and Pedro Ruiz successively the masters of Italy, France and Spain. These victories drew the attention of Boxöffentlichkeit on him, so it was in Glasgow on March 4, 1935, a first meeting with the English world champion Jackie Brown. This non-title fight ended in a draw. But half a year later, on September 9, 1935, Benny Lynch both the NBA World Champion title as well as the British Championship title in Manchester by KO in the second round flyweight Brown. He thus became the first Scottish world champion in boxing history and the triumphant reception at Glasgow Central Station on his return brought the traffic in his home town to a standstill.
A year later, on September 16, 1936, Benny Lynch defended in Glasgow Shawfield stage his title against both the amateur European champion of 1934, Patrick Palmer, who in 1935 started a professional career. With this victory, he also earned the title of the International Boxing Union flyweight. However, the full recognition in the United States was Lynch bestowed only after he had the Philippine NYSAC title holder Small Montana defeated on January 19, 1937 at the Empire Pool, Wembley Arena today, on points.
On October 13, 1937 he defeated in Glasgow Shawfield Stadium in front of 40,000 spectators and the unbeaten and also very hard-hitting Englishman Peter Kane by KO, defending his British title.
Had Lynch initially resorted to alcohol to deal with his migraines, so he enjoyed it now, to be the center of attention and was very common in Glasgow pubs. He also neglected his training and gained weight. This meant that he on June 29, 1938 exceeded the weight limit before his world title fight against American Jackie Jurich and then had to give up his title without a fight. New world champion Peter Kane, Jackie Jurich defeated in the fight for the vacant title on 22 September 1938.
Lynch then moved up to the bantamweight, the next higher weight class. There he suffered two defeats in a week, the last of them. Due to the single knockout of his career against the Romanian champions Aurel Toma on October 3, 1938 in London Since he could end up in this fight a single goal, the British Association withdrew his boxers license. Lynch heard of 25 years due to ever- growing alcohol problems all the boxes on. His whiskey addiction he financed initially by selling his Boxtrophäen, later he was a beggar in the streets of the Gorbals on the go. His marriage broke up and died when his mother, Lynch was also homeless. He died in 1946 at the age of 33 at the Southern General Hospital Glasgow from the effects of pneumonia, which was caused by malnutrition and alcoholism. His widow Anne emigrated in 1966 with his two sons, John James ( 1936-1970 ) and Robert, to Canada.
The Ring Magazine rated him as the fifth best flyweight and Scotland's best boxer of all time. In 1998 he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Artistic processing
The Scottish folksinger Matt McGinn dedicated to the boxer's title Benny Lynch. 1975 appeared the play Benny Lynch, Scenes from a Short Life: a play by Bill Bryden, the 1976 film starring Mark McManus in the role of Lynch for television. From 1999 to 2005, several attempts have been made to film the life of Benny Lynch with Robert Carlyle in the lead role. Bill Bryden also sought a remake of his play of 1975. The implementation of this project was successfully inhibited by the lawyers of the relatives Lynch, who feared a negative portrayal of the boxer and his widow and deterred with threats of legal action potential donors.
On the cover of the 1992 album Gallus published the Scottish rock band Gun is to see a photo of Benny Lynch.
As part of the redesign of the Glasgow district, from the Benny Lynch was born, a street was named in honor of the athlete Benny Lynch Court in 2000.