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Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 04:00
by 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.
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 04:06
by 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.
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 06:38
by mickey1975
Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 04:06
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.
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 06:46
by Ruthless-RKO
mickey1975 wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 06:38
Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 04:06
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"
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 11:45
by forcefraser
Insurance job? Mancs
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 11:49
by Ruthless-RKO
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 11:53
by 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...
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 11:57
by Ruthless-RKO
JamesPhilips wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 11:53
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.
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 12:02
by JamesPhilips
Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 11:57
JamesPhilips wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 11:53
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
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 12:27
by gb
Den Perry did it!
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 13:55
by mickey1975
Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 11:57
JamesPhilips wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 11:53
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.
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 14:20
by gb
Has worse luck than Kell Brook and Jamie Moore...
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 15:08
by mickey1975
gb wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 14:20
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?
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 15:55
by CaptainSpacerod
JamesPhilips wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 12:02
Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 11:57
JamesPhilips wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 11:53
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 ?
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 16:31
by mickey1975
CaptainSpacerod wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 15:55
JamesPhilips wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 12:02
Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 11:57
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.
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 16:36
by maverick23
mickey1975 wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 16:31
CaptainSpacerod wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 15:55
JamesPhilips wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 12:02
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.
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 16:55
by 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
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 17:02
by Deslioni
Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 04:06
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
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 17:05
by Ruthless-RKO
Deslioni wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 17:02
Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 04:06
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.
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 17:10
by 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
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 10 Jun 2021, 17:12
by Ruthless-RKO
Deslioni wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 17:10
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?
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 11 Jun 2021, 02:32
by Arnie.
Roxy was great
Re: Gym owned by Anthony Crolla burns down for second time
Posted: 11 Jun 2021, 16:47
by gb
Allas wrote: ↑11 Jun 2021, 05:58
mickey1975 wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 15:08
gb wrote: ↑10 Jun 2021, 14:20
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.