Mills Starts Training For Woodcock Fight. Mills and two of his training camp colleagues on the road near his quarters today. They are Ken Shaw, the Scottish heavyweight champion (left) and sparring partner Johnny Williams, of Wales. Freddie Mills world's cruiser-weight champion, began training today at a hostelry at the foot of Bexhill, a Surrey beauty spot, in preparation for his British heavyweight championship fight with Bruce Woodcock, the present heavyweight chanpion. May 12, 1949. (Photo by Fox).