PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

REAL champions get back up even when (they think) they can’t – the words of Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world, 1919-1926. George North would appreciate exactly what the old Manassa Mauler meant a century ago about what it takes to stay in the fight on a global scale.
Of all the cast assembled in France over the last three weeks, none can have suffered more blows to the head than the gigantic Welshman, so many that at one stage of his career he was being advised to retire for the good of his health.
Four head injuries in as many months ...