Gym Fighters

johnty1888 · Post by **johnty1888** » 19 Feb 2005, 08:26

Some fighters are reputed to be amazing in the gym, but for whatever reason don't reproduce their form for real. Danny Williams is an example, but we did get a glimpse of what he can do against Tyson. Can you think of any others...?

tonyevs · Post by **tonyevs** » 19 Feb 2005, 08:53

Merthyr`s Simon Collins.
I am not saying he was world class but he was 100 times better in the gym than he was come fight time.

stujones · Post by **stujones** » 19 Feb 2005, 09:10

There was a documentary on BBC Wales a few years back on Dai Gardiner and he showed one of his fighters with a 0-14 record at the time. Gardiner said he would hold his own in heavy sparring with his better fighters - Gardiner couldn't understand it.

Dynamite Dean Phillips · Post by **Dynamite Dean Phillips** » 19 Feb 2005, 09:28

stujones wrote:There was a documentary on BBC Wales a few years back on Dai Gardiner and he showed one of his fighters with a 0-14 record at the time. Gardiner said he would hold his own in heavy sparring with his better fighters - Gardiner couldn't understand it.

The fighter he was talking about was probably Andrew Bloomer. He still trains at the gym and spars with the guys.

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 19 Feb 2005, 10:07

Dynamite Dean Phillips wrote:The fighter he was talking about was probably Andrew Bloomer. He still trains at the gym and spars with the guys.

I was there the night a teenage Naseem Hamed stopped Bloomer on the undercard of the first Benn V Malinga fight in Birmingham.

Didn't the BBBofC try to takes Bloomers licemce away from him soon after that?

stujones · Post by **stujones** » 19 Feb 2005, 14:13

Sounds like the fella, in the Documentary Gardiner was saying the Board were pressing him to do medical after medical.

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 19 Feb 2005, 14:19

American Heavyweight journeyman of the early 90's Elijah Tillery had a repuation of being a very tough gym fighter.