'Footballers that would make Great/Bad Boxers'

[jBacca]

[kevo]

Everton's Tim Cahill. He already has an unbeaten 32-0 record against Premiership corner flags:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjajHeCEGRw

Still fought tougher oppo than Roman Greenburg though

[JamesH]

I think "fash the bash" as he was known would combine athleticism with size nicely.

Yep, he was a karate black belt and also violent with his elbows - ask Gary Mabbutt!

I remember the story of him ko'ing Terry Gibson behind the locker rooms after a spat in training. The whole team watched, real playground stuff! He said afterwards, "Terry was a very silly boy taking me on".

Harford was hard, and didnt Robbie Keane lay out Edgar Davids in the car park at White Hart Lane?

[idle talk]

ian st john could punch!! i think crouchy would make a good super bantam if he boiled down a little also id fancy obi mikel a tough journeyman haha

[JamesH]

ian st john could punch!! i think crouchy would make a good super bantam if he boiled down a little also id fancy obi mikel a tough journeyman haha

Crouchy boiling down???? If he got knocked down he'd look like an extra rope

[Billy_Boy]

Andriy Shevchenko was an amateur boxer in his youth. And there's no shortage of good 'uns from former Soviet block countries.

[Nel]

jamie carragher great heart and looks like he could take a punch

You cant look like you can take a punch. Acting all hard doesnt mean your tough.

[15829]

jamie carragher great heart and looks like he could take a punch

You cant look like you can take a punch. Acting all hard doesnt mean your tough.

carragher doesnt act hard, plus he spent the summer doing boxing training to keep up his fitness

[Pat Butcher]

Everton's Tim Cahill. He already has an unbeaten 32-0 record against Premiership corner flags:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjajHeCEGRw

It gets said a lot but I reckon Rooney would be very good, natural athlete with tons of power and great co ordination. Only thing against him would be his weight, all his opponents would have reach and height on him.

[Pat Butcher]

Years ago before while Terry was still up and coming and not an England regular him and Jody Morris were caught scrapping on camera outside a night club. Him and Morris looked clueless, wild swings all over the place but they had a mate with them who was a boxer and watching the cctv footage was comedy seeing the difference between the little boxer bobbing and weaving throwing quality digs while all the others looked like every day drunk yobs.

[Scrap]

Billy Whitehurst could Fight,I remember a time Having it with a Worldchamp in a pub at Bramall Lane. It got split up, but He wasnt coming second.

[Deserter]

Years ago before while Terry was still up and coming and not an England regular him and Jody Morris were caught scrapping on camera outside a night club. Him and Morris looked clueless, wild swings all over the place but they had a mate with them who was a boxer and watching the cctv footage was comedy seeing the difference between the little boxer bobbing and weaving throwing quality digs while all the others looked like every day drunk yobs.

I think it was actually Terry and Morris fighting AGAINST a doorman who was the older brother of pro fighter Matthew Thirlwell. Not entirely clear as to whether Matthew was actually there or not. Old reports on a bit of it here:

http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/archive/ ... -4522.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/aug/17/football1

Terry does just come across as a cretin - surprising that he got away with this.

[Wales]

Someone said earlier Wes Brown is a well known hardman - was that a joke?

Souness - nutbag on the picth. Wouldve been great to see the scot battle with the likes of Keane and Jones in the same era.

[Wales]

He could do something silly at anypoint in the fight and lose it for his team though