KEY figures from the world of boxing turned out in force to support three generations of a Minehead family as they marked the sporting achievements of Teddy Baldock, Britain's youngest ever boxing world champion. Teddy's daughter Pam Sax, her son Martin and his sons, Minehead Middle School pupils Lito and Danilo Sax, travelled to London at the weekend to unveil a statue dedicated to the world champion boxer. "It was a fantastic day, there must have been around 350 people present," Martin said. Teddy is still Britain's youngest boxing world champion after taking the title at the age of 19 years and 347 days and was the only British boxer to win a world title fight in the 1920s. But his achievements all but faded with time and he ended his life penniless on the streets of London. Determined not to let Teddy's achievements disappear altogether, Martin commissioned renowned sculptor Carl Payne to make a life-sized bronze statue of his grandfather. The bronze stands in the shadow of the Spotlight Youth Centre's boxing gym, just a stone's throw from Teddy's old home in Poplar, East London. Speaking at the ceremony, Martin said: "Teddy was immensely proud of Poplar and he once said in an interview that Poplar was what made him the man he was. "When Teddy fought he was known as the Pride of Poplar. "Well, he's back here now and I hope that the people of Poplar can be proud of him again." Boxing champions who joined the Sax family to celebrate Teddy's achievements included Colin Dunne (World Lightweight Champion), Prince Rodney (British Light Middleweight Champion), Gary DeRoux (British Featherweight Champion), Sammy McCarthy (British Featherweight Champion), Sylvester Mittee (British and Commonwealth Welterweight Champion), James Cook (European and British Super Middleweight Champion), Ian Napa (British and European Bantamweight Champion), Martin Power (British Bantamweight Champion), Jimmy Batten (British Light Middleweight Champion), Vernon Sollas (British Featherweight Champion), Mark Goult (Southern Area Bantamweight Champion) and Charlie Magri (British, European and World Flyweight Champion). The statue was the culmination of years of fundraising and a partnership with Poplar HARCA, the local Housing and Regeneration Community Association. Martin only stumbled across his grandfather's past when his mother found a scrapbook containing press cuttings about his boxing career. He then spent 20 years researching his sporting career which resulted in the publication of the book, The Pride of Poplar, with respected sports historian Brian Belton. Photo: Philip Sharkey