NED Turner was a man who fought for everything during his short life.

He was born in London in 1802 to parents who had hailed from Newtown and worked as a skin dresser in Bermondsey during his youth where he became the victim of abuse of his foreman who had not liked his Welsh roots.

The two had fought and Ned won.

It would not be his last fight and soon Ned was propelled into the life of pugilism and trained at Bermondsey Sparring Club.

However pugilism had been dangerously unregulated and a murky part of Georgian life in the capital.

Ned had discovered as much when he killed another pugilist called Curtis which saw him put on trial for murder and served three months imprisonment for manslaughter.

Upon his release, Ned had continued to fight.

He fought Scroggins twice, winning both times,

He then fought Randall, narrowly losing and would fight many times during the rest of his career, earning a reputation for modesty and good nature while regarded by fans to be one of the ‘bruisers of England.’

Turner died in London in 1826, aged 34, a proud Welshman and champion of the ring