I'm left handed and when I first went to a boxing club in the 70's i boxed southpaw. But all I could do was throw big left handers ( they caused problems right enough!!) and my right hand was hopeless. In later years as a trainer and I was 'playing about' it was more natural to be orthodox because ...

Top man is Bill,he and his side kick Johnny Winters used to have me in stitches. Spoke to him a few weeks back,he was asking after my old man and who I was training. Well pleased to see Billy get a mention on here.

I was there,mainly to see Sean Murphy,2 things come to mind, how huge Foreman was and my dad hurling both his crutches into the air when Sean won,he'd recently been in a car accident and had metal pins inserted into his hip,didn't stop him from getting absolutely shitfaced and forgetting about his s...

MightyWarrior wrote:Larry Holmes v Gerry Cooney @ the ABC cinema in Hammersmith London.

Same as but I see it at Wembley conference centre,before that listened to big late night fights on the radio.

Wembley conference centre,Clinton McKenzie v Colin Power and Pat Thomas v Jimmy Batten.

philipgill wrote:Love to hear everyones thoughts on this fight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUfa5jEFFwg

You're trainer is pretty fat isn't he?

My dad Terry Rees is sitting front row between Colonel Stoneham and John "Jock" Morrison who's son incidently is Barry Morrison.

My dad sparred with Dave Charnley at the Thomas A Becket before his 1st fight with Joe Brown,Charnley hit the old man with a right uppercut and drove his front teeth through his mouthpiece,into his tongue! Wicked puncher by the sounds of it and the old man still talks about it to this day! Good luck...

Ah yes I forgot about Phil - I only arrived for the start of his fight so I missed all that came before. Phil looked good against a bloke that covered up a lot, he threw some heavy-handed stuff at the bloke, won every round and dropped him right at the last, literally the bloke got up as the bell w...

Phil and Ashley are sparring each other this afternoon,I can see it ending in tears,burnt yorkshires,runny gravy and frozen lemon tart all over the gym!

It sure is,got Grovesies opponent sitting in my living room,watching my telly as we speak!

rob h wrote:Who was the Cockney boxer Reg was having a bit of banter with in the dressing rooms in the video?

I thought it was Jimmy Revie at first then McGuigan said it was Jimmy Anderson.

jimbob747 wrote:I can confirm that this is incorrect. Billy is a member of my family and he is still alive and kicking :-)

Tell Billy,Terry Rees say`s hello and is glad to hear he is well.

Cheers buddy,thank`s for your support.
If you`re at the fight and you see us moochin about come and say hi.

Right than reesy who's next up for Andy??! Under a month now till the fight so you must have a good idea? Or if you dont who would you like Andy to fight right now? Well we tried for Martin Kristjansen and Dave Stewart with no luck plus a few South Americans and now trying to get Peter McDonagh for...

Gareth, you would`nt beleive how happy Smiffy [English Jim Rock] is, that he looks like somebody famous. I`d like to smuggle him into the R.T.E. comentary box to see if anyone would notice,only trouble is he does`nt own a half decent shirt!!!! He has however been workin very hard on he`s "Oiris...

No,same eye new cut,the cut against Gorman was worse.Both caused by accidental head clashes. We took Andy to see a Harley street plastic surgeon to check out the damage and he was quite happy the way the skin had healed,coincedentley the surgeon was an amateur boxer in he`s younger days and had also...

Thats a good point Apollo, I too would rather see Khan in with Murray rather than Gomez, atleast Andy won't walk off mid fight. THough i don't think Andy would have Khan yet needs time at the weight, and yes the Dec bout was a 36hr weigh in. I'm not suggesting that Andy is ready for the likes of Kh...

Yeah we were trying to be serious about opponents :lol: Murray and Khan just aren't in the same bracket yet. I'm not a big fan of Khan's but at the same time I think Andy needs to move to the weight get comfortable with it and progress through it. You can't mention Khan in the same sentence with out...

I'd like to see him take the Irish title from that joker McDonagh. After that, I think he could go back to light welter and give Pretty Boy Floyd a going over! :P In all seriousness Ressy, where do you see Andy being at in 12 months time? Fights with McDonagh,Earl or maybe even Gomez would be good ...

Yep,end of may would be spot on.

Just out of interest,which British lightweights would you guys like to see Andy in with?

[quote="ApolloCreed"]I criticised his management in the past but they're getting him the fights now, to their credit... Or to Micky H's credit I should say :TU: From what I've heard, Murray has sparred a lot of the top English guys in London and reckons he's fit for them all, as does his p...

Well im not sayin it was a great one,but my dad boxed there. He beat Len Harvey,not THE Len Harvey,he beat the Fighting Bus Conductor from Cafdiff on the undercard of Richardson v Cooper.
Im proud of him anyway!

ApolloCreed wrote:Rumour has it Murray is fighting in Letterkenny Sat night, any word on that?

Yeah he is, doing an 8 rounder.