OBITUARY | Jimmy Abbott didn’t always box clever, but he played hard

The heavyweight, who has died, was one of SA’s biggest sports personalities during the 1970s and 1980s

22 March 2021 - 20:17 By Chris Barron

Jimmy Abbott, who has died in Heidelberg in Gauteng at the age of 61, was one of the most aggressive and fearsome SA heavyweight boxers in the late 1970s and 1980s, without ever winning the national title...

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