Retired boxer Stephen Smith on struggling to "fill the void" after retirement
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In the mid-1950s, Terry Spinks was a phenomenon. A bookmaker's son who climbed to the pinnacle of amateur sport to win Olympic gold at the 1956 Melbourne Games, the Londoner became a household name.
"He couldn't walk down the street without everybody getting hold of him and wanting to take him in the pub," says his cousin, Rosemary Elmore. She describes him as the David Beckham of his era.
But behind the flashbulbs and pints being bought by strangers, a darker story was being written. The adulation of the public offered little protection against the physical and neurological toll of the ring.
