Guardian of the Streets: James Cook MBE, My Story

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There was a boxing club in almost every community in the city and it kept me out of trouble and many others like me." Instead of finding a great land mass to balance those of the northern hemisphere, Cook initiated the first Māori-European interaction since Abel Tasman’s brief encounter in 1642. In his remarkably accurate charting of New Zealand and his dealings with Māori, Cook displayed his excellence as a navigator and his essential humanity.

You can read James story in his wonderful autobiography written with his good friend Melanie Lloyd, but in the meantime why not listen to this really engaging charming chat with James right here. This is Your London Legacy

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The 29-year-old Yarde is now 20-2 (19 KOs), having been stopped in 11 in a gallant challenge for Sergey Kovalev’s WBO light-heavyweight title in August 2019. He then dropped a split decision to Lyndon Arthur in December for the Commonwealth title. Smith decided to take his new charge “on the road in Europe”, never an easy undertaking and losses were incurred in Germany, Netherlands, France and Finland. James Cook was born in 1728 at Marton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire, England. In 1746 he moved to the port of Whitby, where he was apprenticed to a shipowner and coal shipper. As a sailor in the North Sea coal trade the young Cook familiarised himself with the type of vessel which, years later, he would employ on his epic voyages of discovery.

James began running the club in the 1990s while working as an outreach worker in Clapton - an area dubbed “murder mile” at the time due to its high murder rate. He hopes to receive 1,000 signatures by November 5 and will pass the petition to Councillor Chris Cliffe who will present it to the council. James formed a management committee in the 1990s and has been fighting to keep the club open ever since. Picture: Razvan Pestean (Image: Razvan Pestean) In 1755 Cook took the unusual step of volunteering for the navy as an able seaman. He served 10 years on the North American station, where he developed skills in marine surveying and navigation. In 1768 he was appointed to command a scientific expedition to the Pacific Ocean. His primary objective on this voyage was to observe the transit of Venus across the disc of the sun in Tahiti, while his secondary objective was to search for the fabled great southern continent.

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Young people keeping fit and healthy at Pedro Club. Picture: Razvan Pestean (Image: Razvan Pestean) Cook’s voice softened considerably as he spared a thought for Lyndon Arthur. “I understand the way Lyndon is feeling, because Lyndon now is probably thinking he’s let his people down and he’s let his camp down, just like how I felt when I went to Shefield to fight Herol ‘Bomber’ Graham. I felt that I didn’t perform and I felt rotten. But, as you go along experiencing boxing, you realise this is boxing. So Lyndon shouldn’t beat up himself about what Anthony done. To me, Lyndon is like a quiet James Cook. There’s no hype about him. He’s just calm and relaxed. But sometimes you have to make noise and, when you fight, you’ve got to fight rugged. My personal opinion of Lyndon is that he is a nice, pleasant young man and he’ll come again. Believe me, he’ll definitely come again.”

Many of his contests took place in hotel and sporting club settings, but he won the vacant Southern Area middleweight crown at the Royal Albert Hall stopping Tony Jenkins in the ninth session of a scheduled ten rounder. What I like about these guys is they listen, they are a young team who are willing to learn from someone who has been there and done it. I am here to correct them and say ‘you know what, this is what you do in this situation’,” added the 62-year-old, who will bring both experience and calm to punching proceedings. Last weekend Yarde turned in a career-best performance to comprehensively turn the tables on Arthur in their Commonwealth title rematch, stopping the Mancunian in four rounds. As captain on three voyages of discovery in the late eighteenth century, James Cook became the first European to define the outline of New Zealand. Thanks to Cook’s detailed charts, and his gentlemen passengers’ scientific and artistic documentation, accurate knowledge of New Zealand was available in Europe for the first time from the 1770s.

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In pursuit of these extra fights they have accessed over 350 regional British newspapers. Take a look at the record for Tommy Barrett of Penzance to see just how many of his contests were not reported in Boxing News and only appeared in Cornwall and Devon newspapers. Miles has worked closely with most of the leading historians of the last 40 years and he has named them as the source where results were obtained directly from them. James Cook MBE, the former British and European super middleweight champion, has recently been drafted into the camp to work with Yarde and his trainer Tunde Ajayi, to provide wise counsel and be an experienced eye on the team who work out of the Box Up Crime gym in the heart of Ilford, east London.

Significant reductions in funding for youth services has meant many young people have nowhere to go after school ends. Picture: Razvan Pestean (Image: Razvan Pestean) His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is James Cook worth at the age of 64 years old? James Cook’s income source is mostly from being a successful Boxer. He is from Jamaica. We have estimated Although he was by now in the twilight of his career Cook won the vacant British super-middleweight title narrowly outscoring Fidel Castro Smith in south east London in September 1993.

James Cook MBE stands outside Pedro Club with his autobiography aptly titled Guardian Of The Streets. Picture: Razvan Pestean (Image: Razvan Pestean) Young people tend to take a lot of things from America, what they see on television and they think it’s real. The 47-year-old was seriously injured on November 10 when unseated from Ben Macdui at the start of an all-weather handicap. The final curtain came down on his career in March 1994 when he was comfortably outpointed over twelve rounds by the up and coming Teessider Cornelius Carr at Bethnal Green’s famous York Hall.