Alex Daley @thealexdaley
Historian & author
WHAT happened to Ron Barton?” It’s a question I’ve been asked more than once since I started writing for BN, and despite some enquiries I’ve been unable to find out for certain. Neither Wikipedia nor BoxRec has a record of this 1950s light-heavy’s passing, though several ex-boxers assure me that he died long ago. However, no one I spoke to could recall when or how.