Sad to read a tweet from Lloyd's close friend, Maxi Priest - Lloyd is in intensive care in a UK hospital - no further details of the illness & current condition are given. Lloyd won the WBC, WBA, IBF World Welterweight titles in Sept 1986 - the day I got married. Fingers crossed he pulls thru' a...

milpool wrote: ↑16 Sep 2020, 08:06

Controversial wrote: ↑16 Sep 2020, 06:29 I've just seen on Twitter someone has created a gofundme page for Danny to raise 100K to support him and his family.

Someone called 'Lou DiBella' has donated £250.

Lou DiBella is a respected boxing promoter in NYC

Eddie won’t do anything with him and I wouldn’t expect him to. Was Eddie actually ever involved with him other than a prizefighter? What about FW doing something with him given he would have been the main promoter to profit from working with Williams? Very true mate - Danny was in the Queensbury Pr...

Glass Joe wrote: ↑27 Aug 2020, 14:34

Some wise words from Teddy Atlas

In case anyone is looking for the result - this never happened....

I reckon the recently announced travel ban to Belgium (for all but essential travel) & the 14 day quarantine on returning to the UK, may just have dampened down the attractiveness of this outing - we shall see

From all the blurb, if Mike Tyson does come back into the ring it will be an exhibition for charity & NOT a proper fight... Danny Williams is, I think, the only man who faced Mike Tyson who is STILL active! The same boxing website carried a story today that Evander Holyfield is interested in par...

Event postponed due to precaution re: coronavirus....

Interesting interview with Michael Sprott - recorded recently...

Sprott has boxed and sparred with just about every HW 'name' during his career - and he's still looking for one last fight

https://player.fm/series/boxing-life-st ... ael-sprott

According to Williams record he was down to fight on 30th Nov in Germany (against a 0 - 8 Cruiser 😬) Did this take place? https://boxrec.com/en/event/798912 According to Williams record he was down to fight on 30th Nov in Germany (against a 0 - 8 Cruiser 😬) Did this take place? https://boxrec.com/e...

Yeah, show officially cancelled...

Rio confirmed that the high level of ticket refunds following Benn's withdrawal made the show virtually impossible to save.

Shame for the undercard fighters

It's almost as if the WBC and the WBA put Williams in the Top 10 so that his fight with Tyson would seem like a bigger deal than it was. .....Wait, there is no way that those two respected organizations would do something like that. :OhYes: Danny was outside the Top 10, until he signed with Don Kin...

Russell Jacques heads up the PBC - link below covers the launch:

https://aberdeenbusinessnews.co.uk/2017 ... ing-ranks/

Danny Williams was ranked in the Top 10 - by both the WBC and WBA - in 2003

Well known he only got the Tyson fight - at short notice - because Kevin McBride's management were asking for too much money....

Higger Tor wrote: ↑08 Jul 2019, 16:49 Thought so, ironic when you consider his rivalry with Sprott.

I've just had a look at the bill, I assume Jim was there with Patrick Mendy?

Spot on mate - guess the boxing community help each other out - even when rivalry is involved

No co-incidence mate - the mystery British guy has worked in Danny's corner many times over the years and was involved in training Danny in the early days :TU: http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Ian_Allcock No offense meant, but I'm sure that's been a number of fellow Brits in his corner. When he fo...

I think they just couldn’t afford it all in the end and the arseholes let everyone down at the last minute- I’m guessing they couldn’t afford Danny or any of the fights - they have come up with rubbish like it’s political and the bbbofc made a complaint but it was just to big for them to pull off!!...

Though one does wonder why a British bloke just happened to be 'there on the night' on a bill in Kazakhstan? No co-incidence mate - the mystery British guy has worked in Danny's corner many times over the years and was involved in training Danny in the early days :TU: http://boxrec.com/media/index....

Think it boils down to the promoter pitching ticket prices at what punters are prepared to pay... Italy is similar to the UK in economy, but maybe the interest in boxing is not as great? In eastern Europe ticket prices are even cheaper, but then wages are a lot lower... All relative, or is it #RipOf...

I decided I’d do a few shows selling tickets and the coach booked for months etc and got a call a day b4 saying can’t find me an opponent so cost me money then that happened again twice more straight after so I just wanted to box and got offered biba - it was on boxrec then etc - I did then think I...

Billythekid25 wrote: ↑30 May 2019, 11:00 Speaking to Danny earlier
The plan is to win a few fights on biba circuit then go for the WBA reguler
I'm with him all the way

Can't see the logic in this mate - BIBA fights are not currently recognised by BoxRec, so any wins on the BIBA circuit will do diddly squat for his official ranking....

This was going to be exhibition match in aid of a homeless army veteran - but heard that Lee Carter v Danny Williams is now not happening....

Raskolnikov wrote: ↑07 May 2019, 10:20 Can't you upload to YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo and post the link?

Clips only last a few seconds & I don't wanna upset the copywrite owners - but I will PM U a link

I had the impression that Danny had been regarded as the 'home' fighter for the last few years (see the Tyson Beater etc) so I'm surprised that Edgars was helped in such a fashion. Have you seen footage? I've had a search and come up blank. Kalnars was Latvian, the show was in Latvia, hence the ass...

Wasn't the Mairis Briedis fight supposed to be an 'exhibition' (very unconvincing 'knockdowns') but that's gone on Danny's record? Yes mate, there was quite a discussion about this a while back on the 'Records Queries & Updates' forum. Funny thing is that both 'fights' were Latvian Boxing Feder...