Howard Winstone from Methyr Tydfil, Wales epitomized the gritty, ingrained courage and deep conviction of fighters the world over. As a promising teenage boxer with a booming right, that very hand was ...

As Risen, the film of Howard Winstone's life, received its world premiere in Cardiff on Thursday, Eddie Avoth lauded his former training partner. "It's about time a film was made of Howard's life," ...

Forty years ago this week Howard Winstone became a national hero when he won the world featherweight boxing title. IT was an age when alphabets still belonged in school classrooms and had nothing to ...

Who can beat Vicente Saldivar? That was the question being posed at the outset of 1967 after the tireless, barrel-chested Mexican ace had swept away the challenge of Japan’s leading challenger, ...

Howard Winstone and his trainer Eddie Thomas formed a famous fight partnership whose quest for the world featherweight title captivated the nation. He was born and raised in Merthyr Tydfil and it was ...

IT seems like only yesterday but it’s nearly 43 years to the day since Merthyr Tydfil boxing hero Howard Winstone won the world featherweight championship. Winstone beat Japan’s Mitsunori Seki to ...