Del Fontaine The Punch Drunk Killer 1935

1931 saw Del Fontaine travel to the United Kingdom to further his boxing career.  He had travelled the US and Canada fighting, winning the Canadian Middleweight Boxing Championship twice.  The UK was a place full of potential for the young fighter.  By 1935 he was established and in love.  A love that would end with a crime of passion leaving one woman dead and another seriously injured.  His defence, Del was Punch Drunk.  So what is it to be punch drunk and was that the cause of Del’s rage? And why in 2022, 87 years after this crime is the link between violence and head injury a very relevant conversation to have.

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