Mickey Duff born 7 June 1929 in Krakow

Kraków

Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

, Poland

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 is a former British

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 boxer

Boxing

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, manager and promoter.

Born Monek Prager in Krakow, Poland. His rabbi

Rabbi

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 father saw the rise of the German

Germany

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 Nazi party, so the family parents emigrated 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

Jack Solomons

Jack Solomons was a British boxing promoter who has been called "one of the greatest boxing promoters in history."He began promoting boxing in London during the 1930s. His first great success came when he put together a match between Jack London and Bruce Woodcock for the British heavyweight title...

, with match maker Duff, manager Jarvis Astaire, and promoter Harry Levine becoming key via a media partnership mainly via the BBC

BBC

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Duff was involved with 16 world champions and many world class British fighters, including: Frank Bruno

Frank Bruno

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, Joe Calzaghe

Joe Calzaghe

Joseph William Calzaghe, CBE, MBE is a Welsh former professional boxer. He is the former WBO, WBA, WBC, IBF, The Ring & British super middleweight champion and The Ring light heavyweight champion....

, John Conteh

John Conteh

John Conteh is a British former boxer who was world light-heavyweight boxing champion.Conteh is one of Britain's most successful boxing champions. At his peak in the mid to late 1970s he was considered good enough that he was touted as a possible opponent of Muhammad Ali...

, Terry Downes

Terry Downes

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, Lloyd Honeyghan

Lloyd Honeyghan

Lloyd Honeyghan is a retired British boxer. Born in Jamaica, he was WBC/WBA & IBF welterweight champion from 1986 to 1987. and WBC welterweight champion from 1988 to 1989....

, Maurice Hope

Maurice Hope

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, Charlie Magri

Charlie Magri

Charlie Magri is a former English flyweight boxer. He is from a Maltese family that settled in Stepney, London where he grew up...

, Alan Minter

Alan Minter

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, John H Stracey, Jim Watt, and Howard Winstone

Howard Winstone

Howard Winstone, MBE was a Welsh world champion boxer, born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. As an amateur, Winstone won the Amateur Boxing Association bantamweight title in 1958, and a Commonwealth Games Gold Medal at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff-Boxing style:In his early...

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After the rise of Frank Warren

Frank Warren (promoter)

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 through his partnership with ITV

ITV

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 and Sky TV

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, Duff retired. He has been inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame

International Boxing Hall of Fame

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