Overview

• He died in a Brisbane nursing home at age 75, according to the British Boxing Board of Control, with the Press Association also reporting the news.
• Reports noted a prior diagnosis of dementia.
• He faced Muhammad Ali in 1973 and again in 1975 in Kuala Lumpur, losing both bouts on points after lasting the full distance, and he also lost to Joe Frazier months after the first Ali fight.
• He twice defeated Germany’s Jürgen Blin in European title fights and finished his career with a 69–13–1 record.
• He emigrated to Australia in the mid-1980s, retired before a brief 1995 comeback, worked as an actor including in the 1994 film Street Fighter, and was remembered by promoter Frank Warren in a post on X.