Today's Episode is about Nel Tarleton an English featherweight boxer from Liverpool, England. He was British featherweight champion on three separate occasions and was one of only seven fighters to win two or more Lonsdale Belts outright.
In addition to this, Over the course of his 19-year career, he won the featherweight titles of Britain, and was one of the very best featherweights of the 1930’s.
The Liverpool native stepped into the ring with Hall of Famers Panama Al Brown (fighting him to a draw) and Freddie Miller twice. Additionally, he fought 148 times, won 119 times, had 21 losses and 8 draws and was never stopped, just emphasising how durable and good he really was, whilst only having one functioning lung. Tarleton contracted tuberculosis when he was two-years-old and never weighed more than 140 pounds in his life. He was weak and often roughed up as a child, until a bully, of all people, invited him down to the Everton Red Triangle Boxing club.
That's where he immediately fell in love with the sport of boxing.
