| Biography | A boxing man to his bootstraps, Ernie Fossey served the professional game as fighter, trainer, second, manager and promoter for well over half a century. But it was in the notoriously difficult role of matchmaker that this former coalman from North London truly excelled. Fossey, the right-hand man of Frank Warren, Britains leading promoter, had an encyclopaedic knowledge of the sport and, for more than 40 years, matched hundreds of fighters while moulding countless careers. |