Peerless Jimmy Driscoll
This statue is situated in the city centre of Cardiff, Wales, UK. The following are the photos and the transcriptions on the plinth:
PEERLESS JIM DRISCOLL
1880 - 1925
Lived and died in the Newtown area of Cardiff
FRIEND OF THE NEEDY
(image of Nazareth house Cardiff)
Jim Driscoll had a celebrated Welsh, British and European career before crossing the Atlantic. In defeating the best America could put against him, and in concluding an unbroken line of success with the decisive victory over Abe Attell, the Featherweight Championship of the World, he won an honour, not only for himself and his native city of Cardiff, but also for the whole of Great Britain.
Undefeated Welsh Featherweight
Champion
Undefeated British Featherweight Champion
Undefeated European Featherweight Champion
First Featherweight to win a
Lonsdale Belt outright.
69 recorded fights - won 59: 36 inside the distance, 7 no decisions, 3 defeats
8000 exhibition fights.
The Greatest exponent of the perfect straight left.
Malcolm and Nela on their visit to Cardiff
Photographs with the assistance of Jennie
Newman
our
Welsh genealogy researcher.