Butterbean coming to the UK!

[Neri]

http://www.fightnews.com

After a year-and-a-half layoff, Eric Esch, a.k.a. “Butterbean” (77-7-4, 58 KOs) will reappear in a Blackpool, England ring Sept. 14. Butterbean will take on Brit Mark Potter (21-5, 13 KOs) for a European belt.

European Belt?

[jomothepure]

winner fights Skelton in a world title eliminator?

[funso banjo baby]

winner fights Skelton in a world title eliminator?

stop that

[Wales]

EBF unlicenced boxing, check out the hardest bouncer thread.

[SteveO]

According to the EBF website this is a 4 rounder for their WORLD title:
http://uk.ebfboxing.com/index.html
Is the EBF a registered legitimate organisation?

[rhino222]

come on pottsy !!!!

[DavidPayne]

Its Poitier.

Potter.

I'm telling you its Poitier!

[silent] Potter.

Del, who is that Sydney Potter or Sydney Poitier?

Well personally, I'd say it was Harry Belafonte...

I wondered why Sydney Potter kept bursting into song, I'd dont like Harry Belafonte.

[DavidPayne]

OFAH is a constant source of harmony and peace for me.

Its like a comfortable pair of slippers.

"I asked him to bring me an Emporer burger and he's brought me a cheesburger and he knows I hate cheese"

[Poncey]

Does it make me non-British that I don't like Only Fools & Horses?

[DavidPayne]

Yes.

[dan-b]

Look on the plus side, John McDermott may get a chance to see his idol first hand.

[DavidPayne]

Teddy, thats about spot on.

What do you prefer Rodney?

What?

What do you prefer grass or astro-turf?

Dunno, I aint ever smoked astro-turf

[whiskey]

Lock up your burgers.

[McCannW14]

The best one for me was when Rodney was going out with a much older woman, who turns out to be the wife of a complete nutcase:

Del: So, Rodney, how old is the bird you are seeing.

Rodney: She's a bit older than me, Del, she's mature. About 30.

Del: What do you mean about 30? 30? 31?, what?

Rodney: She's 40 actually.

Del: FORTY? Blimey, she's even too old for me!

Grandad: Even I would have to think twice!

Superb.

[Cannibal]

Doesn't David Haye need an opponent?

[oliverfennell]

According to the EBF website this is a 4 rounder for their WORLD title:
http://uk.ebfboxing.com/index.html
Is the EBF a registered legitimate organisation?

SUGARBOY MALINGA is their middleweight champion! How old is he now? Must be over 50?!

[Wales]

I think theres a sugar boy malinga in the north west olly. Im sure he was going to fight on a VIP card once, or maybe on another card. Either way I dont think its THE suagr boy malinga

[oliverfennell]

I think theres a sugar boy malinga in the north west olly. Im sure he was going to fight on a VIP card once, or maybe on another card. Either way I dont think its THE suagr boy malinga

How many can there be?

[Wales]

Thulani Malingawould be 53 now. I remember steve wood having a conversation and mentioning sugar boy malinga as an opponent for someone,possibly a vip fighter. Whoever he was talking to was shocked and he replied, oh, not the one that fought benn, its another one. Im sure theres one based in or around the north west. I coud be wrong, perhaps it is Thulani...

[Old bones Ian]

http://www.lep.co.uk/otherlocalsport/Bu ... 4413620.jp

[oliverfennell]

http://www.lep.co.uk/otherlocalsport/Bu ... 4413620.jp

That article is a bigger heap of shit than Butterbean himself and is full of more holes than his defence.

[Wales]

Are boxrec counting this as a bout then?

http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?hu ... &cat=boxer

Olly, yes - Martk Potter britains hardest hitting heavyweight?

[oliverfennell]

Are boxrec counting this as a bout then?

http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?hu ... &cat=boxer

Olly, yes - Martk Potter britains hardest hitting heavyweight?

Just writing off a press release and/or taking the word of those involved at face value. I hate it when local rags have boxing stories by non-boxing writers, i.e. they just give it to a 'beat' reporter and nobody in editorial knows any different. I used to work on a local paper in South London where somebody had interviewed Wayne Llewelyn, who had told him he was the former "New York champion", added 10 wins to his record and erased two defeats. Luckily the article went through me, but 9 times out of 10 you get the kind of guff seen above.

Where the fk did Butterbean's quoted record come from?

Is Mark Potter "Britain's hardest hitting heavyweight"? Maybe on the unlicensed circuit... which nobody seems to be aware this is part of.

In fact, I'm off to remove this fight from the BoxRec database.