Top site, top bloke and a top set of lads. Nice touch by the midland area council as well.

Yes - very good read indeed. My Dad used to listen to his radio as a lad listening to the big fights of the day such as Marciano / Cockell. Fast forward 50 years and here I am scratching around for commentary / round by round etc for alot of the big fights. What technology gives us with one hand, th...

Interesting because I enjoy reading about people who are successful and to see how they got to the top of their respective fields.

subjective to your own interests and opinion really; it either floats your boat or it doesn't.

Interesting, I'll have to check your books out. I did a dozen or so years at unilever as well (and survived the experience) before moving onto pastures new.

Jim

Watch the video of the fight from Friday. At 17:30 of the vid keep your eyes on the bell to the left and see why the sixth round finished after just 90 seconds. seeing is believing!

http://boxingbollox.wordpress.com/2008/ ... 6th-round/

And as for their corner work, I just see 'the look of love' (that's what you get when you encourage me )

I for one enjoy watching the Ingle style. Although of course it isn't perfect and there are more safer and indeed cavalier approaches to the sweet science. Success breeds success and the Ingle's have drawn their talented fighters from all over the place. Pickering - Newark, Witter and Siddique - Bra...

yes I agree. Very slick for his size with power to boot! great potential.

Heartening to hear him say he's sticking aroung for 2012 too 'cause at 19 he's got all the time in the world to develop.

Claude might have looked particularly gaunt in Nottingham because he sat next to me with my burly physique!

One of the best journos in the business I reckon he produces a consistent must read column everyweek.

One the matter of his health, he just looks in shape to me.

It was good to meet Dirk and Emerson for a prefight beer. Enjoyed the chat, hope you enjoyed the show and didn't get shot on the way back to the hotel

Only kidding,
Jim

brass monkey sounds good to me, is this our meeting place then?

i'm going, covering it for britishboxing.net and always up for a pre-fight beer!

gutted that the fight is off as it was clearly going to be a cracker. But even more gutted for Fewkes and Murray who will be as low as you can get right now.

Shocking luck for all concerned

My advice would be to switch off your TV, get a car full of mates together and have a ride around the country watching a few shows. The undercard for the Munroe was an absolute rollercoaster with wars, stunning KO's and see-saw battles. When you watch people like Napa and Munroe live there is so muc...

He is down to fight on the Witter/ Froch bill next week in Nottingham

When the duke of Edinburgh visited the 1968 olympic boxing team he tried to reassure them about the effects of competing at altitude. The story goes something like..... Duke: I don't think the effects are too bad, I've played polo many times at altitude. Chris Finnegan: Yeah but how were the horses?...

Sorry if this thread has been done before but a kid made me chuckle the other day when he told me,

I'm going to hit you with that many combinations you'll think your a safe!

I'm sure he has just nicked it from someone but it made me smile nonetheless,

anyone for anymore?

Hi Tom,

He beat Alistair Warren on points on Friday but then lost in the semi to Rotunda's Michael 'Rocky' Fielding on points.

the score of 18-4 sums up fieldings dominance who in my opinion was the classiest boxer on show throughout the semi's.
Jim

just got back from the ABA semis in Sheffield and seems that he has been mentioned a few times on this forum I thought I'd let you know that Tyson got through to the ABAE final by beating Mark Smith on Friday with a WRSF1 blowaway job. Then today he fought very sensibly to a WRSF4 domination against...

Beat me to the point there autobarn, calzaghe is clearly a great fighter but he is also probably the best british managed fighter of all time, especially if he does a job on the over the hill RJJ come the Autumn. Took the title off of a faded Eubank, handpicked many defences, took the big two risks ...

I would like to publicly thank the following boxers for coming into the school that I work at this week to talk about the evils of bullying and to demonstrate the noble art; Glyn Rhodes, John fewkes, Ant, Simeone cover, manu salari and andy and tracey bell. also I would like to thank the following f...

I think the adage 20 for learning, 20 for earning applys to Khan. (although I'm sure he has pocketed a few bob along the way!) it's easy to be critical of Khan because he has been learning his trade in the public eye and I think a lot of people are getting a bit jaded from the experience. He is defi...

I enjoyed the debut. I've seen alot of Laight and I've only seen Fewkes back him up like that before. I'll look forward to seeing Nurse again soon.

Scott has since sadly passed away. My thoughts are with his family and friends at this sad and difficult time.

Scott was very popular in the South Yorkshire area and will be sadly missed within and beyond the boxing community.

Jim Wright
South Yorkshire Correspondent
Britishboxing.net

Thanks for the answers Coco, are you still involved in the game? your insights are pretty interesting, have you ever thought about doing a bit of writing?

Jim