Granddad KO’d repo man, then asked for cuppa
TREVOR “The Smiler” King was known for being beaten just once in his 64-fight professional boxing career. Now the 78-year-old has added another notch to his belt.
The grandfather of five celebrated another win last week in a bout against two repo men one-third his age.
Mr King, the founder and chaplain of Westside Mission, a welfare group for battlers, was helping a family having trouble making mortgage repayments on their Auburn home.
But as he was stocking the family’s fridge on Wednesday, two men from the couple’s mortgage financiers turned up to repossess personal items.
The trouble began when the men began shoving home-owner Ted Fergussen’s partner, Maria. Mr King intervened.
“This chap said, ‘Get out of the way, you silly old goat’ to Trevor,” Mr Fergussen, 56, said.
"Trevor took him out with one punch. After knocking out the man, Mr King sat down at the kitchen table and said, “I could go a cup of tea.”
Mr Fergussen said the men, who were “25 at most and built like front-row footballers”, had underestimated Mr King, unaware he was NSW featherweight champion from 1952 to 1954.
“This fellow had a go at me so I inadvertently threw my right hand and he collided with it.”
Mr King, who has a weak heart, is almost blind in one eye and was diagnosed with leukemia four years ago, said the fallen man’s co-worker then repeatedly punched him in the stomach, but his fist bounced off his rock-hard abdominal muscles. He said the man took off down the driveway.
NSW has the highest number of mortgage defaults and delinquencies.-- State Government figures show that 1077 homes were repossessed in the first quarter of 2008, up from 291 in the same period last year
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