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Randolph Turpin was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire on 7th, June, 1928, to a black father Lionel who was born in turn born in British Guyana now known as Guyana in 1896. Randolph was the youngest of the five children. Although he was born in Leamington he actually grew up and went to school in the nearby town of Warwick. Randolph started boxing during the intervals at local boxing shows and then the boxing booths at local fairs with his brother Jackie. He made his professional debut in London on 17 September 1946 stopping Gordon Griffiths. In 1951 Sugar Ray Robinson, who is considered by many to be the greatest boxer of all time, embarked on a European tour. The final leg of the tour was a fight for the world title with Randolph Turpin in London. Few people gave Turpin a chance of winning against Robinson and in fact many people thought that it was a mismatch and that Turpin could be badly hurt. Robinson had been unbeaten as an amateur and had only lost one fight out of a total of 132 as a professional, and that was to Jake LaMotta. He had subsequently avenged the loss to LaMotta, beating him a total of five times. On 10 July 1951 a crowd of 18,000 turned up at Earls Court to watch Turpin fight Robinson. By the 15th round Turpin was ahead on points and only had to survive the round to win. At the end of the fight Turpin's glove was raised by the referee in victory. He was the first British fighter to hold the world middleweight title since Bob Fitzsimmons in 1891. He had become an overnight sporting hero. Two days later he was given a civic reception before a crowd of 10,000 people in his home town of Leamington with the mayors of both Leamington and Warwick present. Turpin became only the second man to defeat Robinson when he won a fifteen-round decision. Robinson and Turpin had a rematch in September 1951 where Robinson regained the title by a tenth-round knockout. So Randolph’s reign as Champion lasted only 64 days. Since retiring from boxing, he had suffered from depression because of his money troubles. In addition, his personal doctor stated that he thought Turpin had become punch-drunk from all the blows that he had taken to the head during his boxing career. This had led to him becoming morose in his later years. He had become bitter about his boxing career, believing that he had been exploited by having to pay the tax on money that he had never received. Whenever strangers tried to talk to him about his time in the ring he would change the subject. During the course of his career he is estimated from records kept by his manager, to have grossed in the region of £300,000, which would be the equivalent of £7,000,000 in today's money. He was found dead from gunshot wounds in the flat above the transport café on 17 May 1966. He had a wound to the head (the bullet lodged against his skull and did not enter his brain) and a second wound to his heart which had killed him. His daughter Carmen, who was 17 months old at the time, also had two bullet wounds and it was assumed that he had shot her before taking his own life. His daughter was rushed to hospital and managed to make a full recovery. From all accounts, Turpin had been a doting father to his daughters. His death was ruled suicide at the inquest. However, his family believed that he had been murdered and that it had been made to look like suicide, because he had left a typed letter written in 1964 stating that attempts had been made on his life to prevent him from getting money that he was owed and from talking to the authorities about business deals in the world of boxing. He stated that he was not scared of death but that they had now started threatening to harm his wife and children. He implied that the boxing promoter Jack Solomons was involved, although there is no evidence to back up this allegation. He had also been badly beaten up by four men. He had brushed it off at the time, stating that it must have just been some of the fans who had taken a disliking to him following one of his wrestling contests. He had drifted apart from his brothers and sisters because they did not get on with his wife Gwyneth. His death came less than a year after that of Freddie Mills, who was Britain's other post-war boxing world champion. He had also died under mysterious circumstances and was also ruled to have taken his own life, although some claimed he had been murdered by gangsters. Due to the circumstances behind his death Turpin became somewhat of a forgotten hero. Turpin was inducted as a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York in 2001. There is a statue of him in Market Square, Warwick. On his headstone it states that he was 38 when he died. He was actually 37 as he was 20 days short of his 38th birthday.