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This is five live boxing.

So a slight change of pace today. I'm up in Manchester. I'm at a place called the Phil Martin

centre also known as Mosside Amateur Boxing Club, but known in the 80s and into the 90s as Champs Camp. Yes, Champs Camp in Manchester, the great Phil Martin.

And I'm going to be talking to a man that walked through the doors here, well, about 40 odd years ago Joe Gallagher he's going to

be upstairs waiting for me we're gonna take a step back in time I'm also gonna talk

about some of Joe's modern fighters I'm Steve Bunce and I'm on the road in Mosside and this is five live

boxing. So to get inside of Champs Camp in Mosside you had to press a buzzer

downstairs then you'd get buzzed up people would glance down the stairs like I'm

doing now and see who it was then you'd get glanced up

you'd walk up the stairs and you walk into a gym now I've walked into the gym now

now I can assure you it was a lot noisier well it's noisier most of times it

certainly was a lot noisier back in the early 90s first time I was here I think was about 1990 maybe even 91 now there's a man who obviously is associated with this team and that's a man

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