ALTHOUGH JIMMY VINCENT ISN'T A COVENTRY BOXER, HE COMES UP TO THE GYM AND TRAINS
WITH ONE OF HIS BEST FRIENDS ANDY HALDER.  JUST TO MEET JIMMY AND WATCH HIM TRAIN AND SPAR IS A GREAT EXPERIENCE. CALL JIMMY WHAT YOU LIKE JACK THE LAD  THE BAD BOY   STREETFIGHTER ALL THESE NAMES AND MORE HE HAS HAD THROWN AT HIM IN THE PAST FEW YEARS.  BUT NOBODY CAN TAKE IT AWAY FROM HIM THAT HE IS ONE OF THE BEST WELTERWEIGHTS IN THE COUNTRY.
WHEN JIMMY STEPPED INTO THE RING AT THE GORESBROOK LEISURE CENTRE DAGENHAM.  WHAT DAVID BARNES MUST HAVE BEEN THINKING WHEN HE FINALLY CAME FACE TO FACE WITH JIMMY AFTER KEEPING HIM WAITING FOR A GOOD THREE OR FOUR MINUTES BEFORE HIS ENTRY,
JIMMY LOOKED AS HARD AS NAILS AND THE STARE FROM HIS EYES MUST HAVE WENT INTO BARNE'S BRAIN, BARNES LOOKED A NERVOUS WRECK WHEN HE MET JIMMY IN THE CENTRE OF THE RING.
STRAIGHT FROM THE FIRST BELL JIMMY FOUGHT THE ONLY WAY HE KNOWS SEEK AND HURT NEVER TAKING A BACKWARD STEP, THIS WAS THE STORY FOR THE FIRST SEVEN ROUNDS AND I DONT THINK THERE WAS ANY DOUBT THAT JIMMY WON SIX OF THESE.  WHEN BARNES CAME OUT FOR THE EIGHTH ROUND HIS CORNER TEAM TOLD HIM IT WAS TO BE HIS LAST ROUND IF HE DIDNT START TO DO SOME THING, BARNES DID IMPROVE BUT JIMMY KEPT COMING FORWARD  AND WON AT LEAST TWO OF THE LAST FIVE ROUNDS TO GIVE HIMSELF A COMFORTABLE WIN OR SO WE THOUGHT.
IN THE WORDS OF THE GREAT MAN AT RINGSIDE JIM WATT WHO SAID THE REFEREE MUST BE THE ONLY MAN IN THE HALL WHO THOUGHT BARNES HAD WON EVEN BARNES WAS SURPRISED AND EMBARASSED WHEN HE WAS GIVEN THE VERDICT.
JIMMY YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE THE BELT BUT YOU KNOW AND I KNOW AND EVERYONE WHO WATCHED THIS FIGHT KNOWS THAT YOU WON IT EASY.