Harry Carpenter visits Londonderry to meet local boxing hero Charlie Nash, who is in training for his biggest bout to date - a title challenge against Glasgow's fearsome WBC World Lightweight Champion, Jim Watt*.
Nash grew up in Derry's Creggan estate, sharing a house with his parents and 12 siblings. In 1972, on Bloody Sunday, his brother William was shot dead by the British Army's Parachute Regiment. Despite this tragedy, Nash still lives and trains in his home city and has won the support of people on both sides of the sectarian divide.
Charlie takes Harry on a quick tour of Derry, before they head to the St Mary's boxing club, at the heart of the Creggan estate, where Nash trains alongside - and spars with - the club's amateur boxers. Trainer Tommy Donnelly has been with Nash since his amateur days, and puts his charge through a rigorous regime of circuit training to ensure that Nash is one of the fittest boxers in the sport. Will that be enough against Watt?
Clip taken from Sportsnight, originally broadcast on BBC One, Wednesday 12 March, 1980.
* Jim Watt retained his WBC title, by way of a TKO, after a breathless four-round contest in which both champion and challenger were knocked down.
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