JUST A STREET FIGHTIN' KID IN THE PRE-PUNK DAYS -- KID ON THE WAY UP.
PIC INFO: Spotlight on a newspaper clipping of a young Jeff Geggus (not yet "Stinky Turner" of the COCKNEY REJECTS) in his pre-teen amateur boxing club years, c. mid '70s (1974-'75).
“I fell off my bike and broke my teeth, and I had to have silver teeth in the front. And going to school with them silver teeth was a nightmare – the jokes and all that – so you had to learn to fight, and I thought the best thing to do was to go to an amateur boxing club.”
Born and raised in Custom House, Geggus tried a few clubs, and after taking “some hidings” from experienced boxers, settled on Barking ABC, making his debut on a low-key gym show just weeks after joining. Three years later he reached the final of the National Schools Championship in Blackpool, losing to an older boy from Llandeilo.
“It was March 1977, and I was a month shy of my thirteenth birthday. And I represented England Schoolboys in a return match against the Welshman who beat me that May, in Bridgend I think.
“I had fair success, won a couple of Essex schoolboy titles, London Junior ABA titles, but there were kids a lot better than me. And I don't think I ever had any thoughts of making anything as a professional. My brother Micky was a lot better than me; I think he had about 18 fights and won ‘em all.”"
-- ADAM W. HUNTER, "Cockney Reject: my conversation with Jeff Geggus," October 22, 2021
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