Just heard the news last night that Steve Richards, know as Columbo had sadly passed. His son Dave Richards came into the pub to tell my uncle late last night. I believe he passed on Friday or early Saturday morning. To my dads friend and a true hard man RIP Columbo. They do not and will not make em like that anymore.

What a heart Colombo had! He is a Middleweight fighting a Heavyweight, proper Gentleman, R.I.P fella, a humble guy who trained kids in his spare time, an example to all men.Best wishes to his family.

loved that, used to have it on vhs and I was lucky enough to get to write to cliff field through his great friend and carer Redd. Drink may have got him in the end but what a great man, totally honest about his shortcomings and very funny indeed. RIP big man, you`ll never be forgotten.

Rest In Peace Great Uncle Ronnie (Ron Redrup) Rest In Peace Grandad David (David Redrup) Love and Miss you, Rose x

Ron Redrup (west ham) represented Great Britain in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia. He was eliminated in the first round of the Middleweight Class (165.5 lbs) by Dieter Wemhoner of the Unified Team of Germany. Redrup was also the 1956 ABA Middleweight champion, rest in peace ron

Ray hill brought me here

That was a well presented, film, edited documentary of a point in time. Thanks for posting. The Rainbow was well known as the base for Frank Warren's challenge to the BBBofC and the cartel of Jarvis Astaire, Mickey Duff, Harry Levene, Mike Barrett and Terry Lawless. Warren, as we know, was ultimately successful and made the transition to the Professional arena. I was aware of Cliff Fields and remember him as being at No10 in the British HW rankings of the day but this is the first time I've actually seen him. I was aware of Ron Redrup, similarly from past reading of old Boxing mags. To this day, though, I'm baffled by references to Harry Starbuck, who I've never seen; nor do I know what the looked like. That apart, great doc so thanks again.

that man redrup took some beating from fields hard as nails any footage of fields beating mclean

Loved the documentary. All great lads.

Colombo is like a Energised Battery!! RIP to a Legend Condolence to the Family and Friends of a Champion !

Thanks for the upload...excellent

A great watch. Bravo.

I wish this showed more of Ray Hill. But what a Gem of a video. 2024. 👊🇺🇸🗽🇬🇧👊

I had curiosity for some of Roger Deakins earlier works and that brought me here🎈

great video redrup is a warrior

Terry Mcann @ 2:50 I bet Arfur put him in against a monster and told Terry his opponent was a bum while Arfur bet against Terry. But Terry beat him anyway and Arfur blamed Terry for losing his money later, down the Winchester

There has to be a video of Cliff Fields vs Lenny McLean in which Cliff knocks Lenny out cold. I know Frank Warren has that video.

Excellent blast from the past.

Great 👍 video

cliff fields knocked out lenny mclean twice

Good one

He sells greeting cards😂- too funny !

Is that ref for the fields fight the same guy Roy shaw battered? No offence meant as I thought shaw was over the top in the liberties taken in that fight? I might be naive there I admit. But the fields fight in this doc is probably the most respectable fight I’ve seen so far in unlicensed boxing.

Was there a clip in the beginning of Lenny McLean fighting Cliff Fields?!

Colombo was your worst nightmare in the ring. He was a fucking machine.

these are entertaining fights. nowadays boxers don't even have broken noses you'd never know they boxed ; you can't beat the old brawlers they had heart

Freddy foreman @ 19-26??

Cliff fields was better the best unlicensed for fighter of that generation

Noticed something at the start of the video when you first see Lenny notice his teeth I don’t know if they were sharpened to bite of ears but the bottom k9 teeth look very sharp

26:20 "Quick, get him back to the corner before he comes round"

Good telly

6.48 that Frank Warren?

I remember a story Steve Colombo told me ...Years ago load of the Chaps from Old Kent rd went on holiday to Thailand & can't remember the name of the fella who had The Thomas of Beckett at the time organised a fight for Colombo to fight their top fighter in Phuket.Any way Steves says they went down the gym so he could do bit of sparing & train Steve said someone pointed out says thats the fella your fighting in couple of days !!!!! Steve said to me he laughed & said I can't fight him he is like a little boy I kill him no can't fight him so Steve looks around the gym see"s the biggest Thai fella training & says I fight him... no no no your fighting the little fella .Any way big money was all being put on Steve from his pals.Fight night he said kid came out jabbed him couple times then hit him with a glancing right so Steve throughs a jab & the kid goes down.Next the kid gets up kicks Steve in the top of the leg 2-3 time he said his leg was paralysed so he drops to his knees then the kid sets about punching Steve in the head!!!! Steve says next thing hes being woke up !!!! When he was telling me in his accent was funny.They all had a great holiday although not the big money making trip they all thought was gonna happen..He also told me when he was getting out of Hungary years before that he carried a young boy Joe Bugner on his shoulders ....dont know how true but, He always made me laugh Great man..

Danny the bull Adams is refereeing the black and Hungarian Guy

Who was Columbo fighting here?

That fight around 24:00 in was shocking. Ropes were holding the guy up and he'd already taken enough punches for concusion?

How his corner let him out for the next round after that 26:10 is disgusting

What year did Fields beat lenny Must have been B4 lenny got in shape, as in this fight he was woeful. Nice little earner though. Nice to see Freddie Foreman to long live brown bread Fred

Who the bloke at 3:08??

enjoyed that. thanks

I’m pretty sure the heavy gentleman in the dark suit is a complete stranger to me, could be wrong though

Are you Eifing serious??? The REF in the Cliff F fight???? Thats Shocking!!

Colombo once sparred with both my uncle's Joe and Dezzy and broke Joes nose . I should point out that he beat them both one after the other and was at least 20'years older COLOMBO

Ray Hill was very good.

no doubt cliff was a ver lt tough man but just imagine either of these in with Tyson back in the day

Colombo , RIP

6:00 who is this guy I remember him from tv in the 1980s

Who's the black guy fighting Colombo?

Either they don't have the talent or their background is too bleak, with the exception of Ken Buchanan. That's why these boxers/fighters don't have BBBofC licences.

Poper mean hard men witch r and different to day repcet u got to leeny is a legend 👏 🙌

From everything I’ve heard about cliff fields I thought that would have been a good fight, it wasn’t at all…no chance against an actual boxer at all.

That’s cliff fields. In this he looks like a terrible exponent

Heard all these stories about Cliff Fields.....just watched this, he is an awful boxer

Probably tough lads but not credible boxers

I don't think fields was that good I'm very surprised he beat McLean to be honest

Anyone know what the music is around 16:30?

cliff fields knocked out lenny mclean twice