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JOHN WIGHT writes on the life and illustrious career of Dick McTaggart – perhaps the most underappreciated boxer in history
Lightweight boxer Dick McTaggart who won 'Lightweight' gold at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, November 30, 1956

DICK McTAGGART was the finest and most successful amateur Scotland ever produced, and also perhaps the most underappreciated boxer in the history of the sport, north of the border.

A child of poverty and product of Dundee, he was born in 1935 at a time when Scotland and Britain’s working class were experiencing the tender delights of Tory-imposed austerity.

Purified by economic pain, the McTaggart family, like every other family, was forced to learn the art of survival.

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