“It’s a memory I will treasure forever,” Kevin Lueshing shares photograph taken with former trainer

FORMER trainer and British boxing legend Colin Smith handed away on May 20. Kevin Lueshing, who fought the likes of Felix Trinidad and Harry Simon throughout an thrilling eight-year profession, shared the next put up on the Facebook web page of his Champs Boxing Club in Spain:

“I’m writing the next with a very heavy coronary heart: I’ve simply been advised that my former trainer and boxing legend Colin Smith – who represented three weight world champion Duke McKenzie  – sadly died on May 20. That’s a image of us collectively [see below] throughout my boxing days and it’s a memory I will treasure for ever.

Colin’s daughter, Tracy Collins Smith, want to prolong an open invitation to anybody from the boxing neighborhood who knew her dad to attend a wake on the Queen’s Head in Chislehurst, Kent, from 1pm on June 26.

Just let her know by sending an e mail to: tracysmith846@gmail.com

Colin was one of many few folks in my life who really made a distinction and set me on the appropriate path.

A champion to the tip, I know he’d need any donations to be despatched to Dementia UK as they wage their very own battle towards this dreadful curse. Alternatively,  nicely wishers will additionally 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 attention, and that’s exactly what I needed,” Lueshing would later clarify on the distinction in preparation between fights.

Alongside supervisor Mickey Duff, trainer Colin Smith was instrumental in serving to Duke McKenzie grow to be 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 “really lovely person”, who would prepare him all through his vastly profitable profession.

Everyone at Boxing News want to categorical their deepest sympathy and condolences to Colin’s household and buddies.