Tyrone nurse and josh wale also had marking time fights

Croydon's Frankie won gold in the Commonwealth Games in 1974 for St. Vincent, the country of his birth, after Liverpool's Carl Speare was chosen to represent England in the Games, even though Lucas had beaten him in the ABA middleweight final. Frankie outscored Speare in the semi-finals of the Game...

He stopped our own Frankie Lucas in Italy in 1978 when Lucas had gatecrashed the world rankings with brilliant back-to-back wins over Norberto Cabrera and Angelo Jacopucci. Boxing News tipped Lucas to continue the run against Monroe but the smooth American had other ideas. Bennie do you know the sc...

Nice one, really good old school record there - 10 of his 12 opponents had winning records. How come he packed in? - the Lawton fight was points ? The usual mate... he didn’t think he was getting opportunities, new business big family 5 kids all boxed inc girl! He now a very good trainer in his own...

The Worm fought in a great era of middleweights and too bad he never got a title shot had he won those fights that he should have beaten. Also, he was in Joe Frazier's corner in the iconic Thrilla in Manila fight with Muhammad Ali. Anyways, the Worm was gone but not forgotten as one of the great mi...

Who was that mate, what were his circumstances? It was roger Sampson from Sheffield bripez.. he w9 L3. He was extremely tricky but also deceptively physically strong without been a puncher if you know what I mean? He was a 50/50 amateur who learnt his trade well. He started with Glyn Rhodes and box...

Great fight.. gladiators for sure. A good friend of mine and gym mate at the time actually beat both of these guys but never even got a central area title shot!

McCallum is underrated? Well it is now official. After being called underrated for the one zillionth time, McCallum is now no longer underrated. Sorry for stating the obvious alp, I was only passing comment. I didn’t realise that every person on the forum is well versed in mccallums career as I’m o...

While MM underrated at the very highest level so was Tommy’s boxing ability, not that I could see him schooling MM but coupled with his power it would be a hard puzzle for mike to solve.. rock and a hard place.. stay mid to long and get outworked maybe 2-1 or try setting a more forceful pace and ris...

For all his limitations their is absolutely not an ounce of quit in decastro.. boxed loads of times just for the fun of fighting.. Genuine martini man in the ams

Coco wrote: ↑23 Jun 2019, 07:19 I remember that article, it was front laden of the BN, and the headline was something like died chasing his dreams, a moving article.

Don’t wanna get done in here and pains me to say.. but Nelson record against fringe contenders and challengers is superb :zzz: also although neither consistent nor prolific at a lower level loved the manner (not the fact) of how buster Drayton did cable n kaylor in space of a few weeks in uk.. also ...

I also think when a fighter at any level falls completely out of love with the game their done.. It was clear that despite his love of a big occasion and the money it brought his passion was no longer boxing.. as said before Tyson went thru the same thing, kel is going thru it now. While hindsight i...

I don't know the reference here, but I have to say I'm intrigued. I know you said you can't remember word for word, but what was the gist of what was said here? I've seen commentators say some really beautiful stuff that moves me too. Not a lot, but it's been known to happen. It was something along...

keithmoonhangover wrote: ↑21 Jun 2019, 11:28 He was unhitable in his younger days and his prime was definitely before Kelley.

Totally agree

Not a sentence and I can’t remember word for word but harry Mullan final summing up of Bradley stones fight with Ritchie in BN brought a lump to the throat to say the least..

At first glance It would be easy to lean heavily toward Naz just from his obvious attributes of accuracy and power paired with Danny’s tendency’ to be a bit of a goalkeeper at times. Also naz who beat Robinson was extremely elusive. However Danny was a big feather, strong, game, hard and correct pun...

Nose like Andy lee.. body like Andy Ruiz

Ian napa.. in my opinion Ian was one of the most skilled fighters we have produced over the last 20 years. His punch power his engine and his height prob let him down in the long run. he was a defensive master and i used to love watching his skills. he could shoulder roll before it was called a sho...

Emanuel burton

It's just not very wise. Historically it reminds me a lot of Jason Matthews and Mark Prince. Real bangers at domestic level but horribly exposed at world level. Their careers came to an abrupt end. Yeah DM really tore Prince a new one and that finished him.. listening to his manager/trainer I’m als...

This would be an absolute dream for nelson this. Loved bobby and of course his story but his desire and gameness would have the professor licking his chops... bobby would win rounds through sheer desire and big fight experience but ultimately nelson would be catching and countering more and more as ...

Pugilist-specialist wrote: ↑18 Jun 2019, 05:37 Like a later career Naseem Hamed.

I agree but where’s the barber?

Both had fast hands, Curry better defensively but Cuevas better one shot finish. Even tho it’s in their primes it’s still hard to evaluate without thinking about their big losses isn’t it? Although curry was ironed out famously by Mcallums left hook and pipino favoured that heavily I still see him b...

A lot of guys are coming into the sport through different avenues., im not one of those who thinks a trainer gotta be punched in the nose to tell a fighter how it feels but they gotta be comin into the sport with a decent background and a degree of intelligence. As much as they talk about “having a ...