To many fight fans the Welsh boxer Howard Winstone holds a special place in the pantheon of great boxers past. To put his place in sporting history into context, if the 1970s were regarded as ‘the Golden age’ for Welsh rugby, then the 1960s belonged to Winstone.
Born in 1939 in Merthyr Tydfil Winstone was a fine amateur boxer winning a gold medal at the British Empire games in Cardiff in 1958. That same year he also became the ABA and Welsh Bantamweight champion. Clearly he was destined fo...