THE DEMONS OF FRANKIE LUCAS

@BigDaddyBunce

Voice of boxing

THIS is a giant story about one man and his struggle for recognition. It is all true.

Frankie Lucas was a good fighter and then he vanished. There were sightings, there were rumours and there were a few lies.

There was the Christmas appearance in Croydon. Lucas, rambling, taking his shirt off and shadow-boxing for the shoppers in the cold. They threw him coins and laughed and poor Frankie kept throwing punches. It was either 1989 or 1990. Frankie Lucas was lost by then, make no mistake. I started to search for him a few years later.

At about the same time, a fight figure told me he had seen