If it wasn’t growing up in a war-torn country, it was a fascination with local fights in rings held together by rope and bamboo that led Don Charles to where he is today. The 61-year-old, born Char…
Don Charles the man with ‘monster task’ for Daniel Dubois after cornering Derek Chisora in three brutal Tyson Fury fightsIf it wasn’t growing up in a war-torn country, it was a fascination with local fights in rings held together by rope and bamboo that led Don Charles to where he is today.
It was his father’s profession that then brought Charles, then 14, his parents and siblings to London on 14 October 1974, at a time that ensured a young passion for boxing firmly grew. Muhammad Ali shocked the world by beating George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle on October 30 and because of his move to London, Charles was in a position to watch and became enthralled.
Perhaps appropriately, his business interests evolved and instead of retail, earned a lucrative contract to provide security on doors in Brixton. Charles demanded his doormen trained with him if they wanted to work, and his belief grew that he still had a future in boxing, even if it was then still almost two decades away.
In the years after Charles opened and sold a local flower shop that under his ownership provided the flowers for Miss World 2000, Derek Chisora, the heavyweight with whom Charles will forever be associated, came to his attention wearing a Finchley Amateur Boxing Club t-shirt in a petrol garage encounter in the north London town. A brief conversation resulted in them training together just a fortnight later and, eventually, Charles succeeding John Oliver as his full-time trainer.
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