FORMER coach and British boxing legend Colin Smith handed away on Could 20. Kevin Lueshing, who fought the likes of Felix Trinidad and Harry Simon throughout an thrilling eight-year profession, shared the next submit on the Fb web page of his Champs Boxing Membership in Spain:
“I’m writing the next with a really heavy coronary heart: I’ve simply been instructed that my former coach and boxing legend Colin Smith – who represented three weight world champion Duke McKenzie – sadly died on Could 20. That’s an image of us collectively [see below] throughout my boxing days and it’s a reminiscence I’ll treasure for ever.
Colin Smith & Kevin Lueshing (c/o Champs Boxing Membership, Fb)
Colin’s daughter, Tracy Collins Smith, wish to prolong an open invitation to anybody from the boxing group who knew her dad to attend a wake on the Queen’s Head in Chislehurst, Kent, from 1pm on June 26.
Simply let her know by sending an electronic mail to: tracysmith846@gmail.com
Colin was one of many few folks in my life who actually made a distinction and set me on the suitable path.
A champion to the tip, I do know he’d need any donations to be despatched to Dementia UK as they wage their very own struggle in opposition to this dreadful curse. Alternatively, nicely wishers may even be capable to go away contributions on the wake.
RIP Colin Smith – 04/10/1941 to twenty/05/2024”
Smith was in Kevin Lueshing’s nook when the ‘The Look’ rebounded from a earlier stoppage defeat to Chris Saunders, defeating the Barnsley man in a wildly entertaining British welterweight title affair.
“Colin gave me undivided consideration, and that’s precisely what I wanted,” Lueshing would later clarify on the distinction in preparation between fights.
Alongside supervisor Mickey Duff, coach Colin Smith was instrumental in serving to Duke McKenzie change into a three-weight world champion and MBE. Duke is well-known for following his brothers, Winston, Dudley, and Clinton, into boxing, and it was Smith, whom Duke described as a “actually pretty individual”, who would practice him all through his vastly profitable profession.
Everybody at Boxing Information wish to categorical their deepest sympathy and condolences to Colin’s household and mates.
