Cruiserweight’s life story told in upcoming book

JON-LEWIS Dickinson is to have his life story published. The popular Geordie cruiserweight will be best remembered for that incredible Prizefighter success in 2010, and the incredible run between 2011 and 2014 which saw the former Birtley amateur win the Northern Area, English and British titles. He stopped Neil Dawson on an unforgettable night at the Metro Radio Arena in March 2014 to own the famed Lord Lonsdale belt outright.

A year after winning the British cruiserweight outright Jon-Lewis rocked the Arena for a second time, stopping Scotsman Stephen ‘Simbo’ Simmons in eight for the WBC International Silver, a victory that was supposed to propel him onto world glory.

That didn’t quite work out, but Dickinson is still hugely respected and was recently given a special lifelong achievement award at the British Boxing Blog North East Boxing Awards 2018, recognising his contribution to the sport.

Now, two-and-a-half years after his retirement, local writer, and friend of the Dickinson family, Peter Mann, is penning the life story of the former cruiserweight king.

“I’d initially spoke to Jon prior to his retirement, in fact a good few fights beforehand, and there was interest, from both sides, it just wasn’t the right time,” said Peter.

“After he retired from the sport we kept in touch and, following the release of my first two books I was looking for something myself in to.

“Other people were asking what was next and, as I was looking through my own archive material, one name kept cropping up more and more: Jon-Lewis Dickinson.

“So I gave him a call, we met up, had some food, laughed, and thought, why not?

Although official release dates are still to be confirmed it is expected that Cruising to Glory will be out early December. else to get