Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time

[Ruthless-RKO]

Gym owned by former world boxing champion burns down for second time

A gym owned by the former WBA lightweight champion, Anthony Crolla, has burned down in just over a year since his previous one caught fire.

15 months on after his old gym was destroyed and now his next one has been hit by another blaze.

His old gym in Failsworth had previously burnt down in a huge blaze on March 29 2020, which led to eight fire crews attending the scene.

The new premises were constructed in a former football club bar on Oldham's limeside estate and opened to professional fighters in February this year.

It took months of hard work and hundreds of hours to turn the club into a state of the art community boxing gym.

Investigations are ongoing, but it is believed the fire started in the building next door and subsequently spread to the gym.

Anthony now hopes to salvage the ring, gloves and pads to set up a temporary gym on the car park.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Ah man!

I feel for crolla.

First mill last year goes u in flames and now this.

Didn't he he opened one in Limeside, that's my neighbourhood.

[mickey1975]

Ah man!

I feel for crolla.

First mill last year goes u in flames and now this.

Didn't he he opened one in Limeside, that's my neighbourhood.

Well, it does say Limeside in the article.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Ah man!

I feel for crolla.

First mill last year goes u in flames and now this.

Didn't he he opened one in Limeside, that's my neighbourhood.

Well, it does say Limeside in the article.

mis-typed.

Was supposed to write "didn't know he opened"

[forcefraser]

Insurance job? Mancs

[Ruthless-RKO]

Insurance job? Mancs

Twice in a year?

[JamesPhilips]

Didn't Crolla also get mysteriously attacked by a concrete slab? Hes either extremely unlucky or involved with some dodgy stuff. Occam's razor suggests the latter...

[Ruthless-RKO]

Didn't Crolla also get mysteriously attacked by a concrete slab? Hes either extremely unlucky or involved with some dodgy stuff. Occam's razor suggests the latter...

Yeh, when his house got burgled before he won the world title.

[JamesPhilips]

Didn't Crolla also get mysteriously attacked by a concrete slab? Hes either extremely unlucky or involved with some dodgy stuff. Occam's razor suggests the latter...

Yeh, when his house got burgled before he won the world title.

That story was a bit fishy I thought

[gb]

Den Perry did it!

[mickey1975]

Didn't Crolla also get mysteriously attacked by a concrete slab? Hes either extremely unlucky or involved with some dodgy stuff. Occam's razor suggests the latter...

Yeh, when his house got burgled before he won the world title.
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His neighbour's.

[gb]

Has worse luck than Kell Brook and Jamie Moore...

[mickey1975]

Has worse luck than Kell Brook and Jamie Moore...

Do two fires and a paving slab over the napper trump an attempted assassination of a cartel leader gone wrong or being violently stabbed by a homophobic islander who knew the vast island of tenerife so well, he is still at large?

[CaptainSpacerod]

Didn't Crolla also get mysteriously attacked by a concrete slab? Hes either extremely unlucky or involved with some dodgy stuff. Occam's razor suggests the latter...

Yeh, when his house got burgled before he won the world title.

That story was a bit fishy I thought

It was but he milked it for all it was worth and his career renaissance was largely down to the public sympathy that followed from that story.

Does he really come across as cynical enough to turn some kind of criminal feud into a hard luck story to boost his popularity ?

[mickey1975]

Yeh, when his house got burgled before he won the world title.

That story was a bit fishy I thought

It was but he milked it for all it was worth and his career renaissance was largely down to the public sympathy that followed from that story.

Does he really come across as cynical enough to turn some kind of criminal feud into a hard luck story to boost his popularity ?

He's generally spoken of as the nicest man in boxing.

[maverick23]

That story was a bit fishy I thought

It was but he milked it for all it was worth and his career renaissance was largely down to the public sympathy that followed from that story.

Does he really come across as cynical enough to turn some kind of criminal feud into a hard luck story to boost his popularity ?

He's generally spoken of as the nicest man in boxing.

I’ve met him at a couple of shows. Didn’t speak to him for long but he seemed like a good, genuine bloke.

[margaret thatcher]

it does seem a bit weird though..........2 burnings now, a cinder block

does he got gangsters training at his gym or something

[Deslioni]

Ah man!

I feel for crolla.

First mill last year goes u in flames and now this.

Didn't he he opened one in Limeside, that's my neighbourhood.

Ha, small world, I used to live on lower lime road

[Ruthless-RKO]

Ah man!

I feel for crolla.

First mill last year goes u in flames and now this.

Didn't he he opened one in Limeside, that's my neighbourhood.

Ha, small world, I used to live on lower lime road

That side is rough though. Guns and whatnot.

I live more near Hollins.

[Deslioni]

I’ve not been there for many years, I’m a “southern shandy drinker” nowadays, I used to also live on hollins road, near the Petrol station

[Ruthless-RKO]

I’ve not been there for many years, I’m a “southern shandy drinker” nowadays, I used to also live on hollins road, near the Petrol station

Back when we had the Roxy?

[Arnie.]

Roxy was great

[gb]

Has worse luck than Kell Brook and Jamie Moore...

Do two fires and a paving slab over the napper trump an attempted assassination of a cartel leader gone wrong or being violently stabbed by a homophobic islander who knew the vast island of tenerife so well, he is still at large?

Didn't Brook refuse to press charges?

The fact he went back to a strangers house and won't press charges for being stabbed suggest it was Brook up to no good.

I'm sure Kell was a completely innocent victim - just like when he was stabbed the first time.