Colorful Characters/Stories

[Barry Washington]

Two Ton Tony Galento is one.

Who else?

[evrenb]

Ricardo mayorga

[BoxBuzz]

Patterson and Frazier are examples of humble yet colorful fighters. In the exact opposite mode of Galento, Ali, Mayorga, Hamed.

I do recognize that being animated, and boisterous is one way to earn the "character" badge on one level. And I appreciate it greatly.

But humility is another way, and they are great examples of the side of the discussion. Louis and Tszyu come to mind as well.

[stevedoc]

there's an english boxer called paul huggins a feather weight from the 80's about the same time as barry mcguigan who was to put it nicely a bloody lunatic ,he ended up in jail for drug dealing and many other things an while inside on bail for murder i think he see the light and is now a minister ( type paul huggins youtube ) and the clip that is about 35 minutes long is a must see.

i met him when he boxed my brother and i remember being in the changing room at the royal albert hall and someone came in to pay the fighters it might of been mrwarren and huggins had about £5,000 30 years ago and he went and spent the lot that night on champagne ,coke and hoe's that would be worth about $30/40,000 today not a bad night out ....

[expe]

Michael Gomez and Johnny Tapia.

[BoxBuzz]

Tapia is an interesting call. Cross between the two polar opposite examples.

[Ambling Alp II]

Foreman (during his comeback) Camacho, and Baer come to mind. Tim Tomasek was a colorful journeyman. From what I have heard of Peter Jackson and Joe Choynski both seem to have had interesting stories. Wish I knew more.

[tiny_acres]

Randall "TEX" Cobb one of the funniest and strangest persons I have met.

[BoxBuzz]

Good call with Cobb

[crusader]

Lots of wild stories about Paul Sykes. There's quite a bit about him in the British and Irish section here.

Below is an excerpt from a documentary about him that's on YouTube; he was definitely a character.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djyqbp-wlm8

[Bodyshot3]

The American heavyweight Scott LeDoux....a proper old school hard man and basic but very decent slugger.....famously came over to London and tried to put the frighteners on Frank Bruno.

The banged-up, shopworn LeDoux must have known he was very near the end and that he was effectively getting well paid to fulfil the role of 'named opponent' for the undefeated Bruno, but that did not discourage him from trying it on.

At a final press call he beckoned Bruno over to him and suddenly thrust a photograph into Frank's hand. The photo was of a badly beaten-up fighter's face and LeDoux said to Bruno "take a real good look at that boy, that was my last opponent when I'd finished with him and you'll be getting plenty of the same."

The wisdom of a smaller, clapped-out pressure turning-up in a bigger, stronger and younger opponent's backyard and pulling a stunt like that is questionable. And Terry Lawless had to understandably calm Bruno down a bit with the 'boy' thing.

Crazy-brave stuff from LeDoux who seems to have gone to war with everyone he ever fought; but the Bruno fight was his last stand and after a proper beating at Wembley Arena he never fought again.

[tiny_acres]

The American heavyweight Scott LeDoux....a proper old school hard man and basic but very decent slugger.....famously came over to London and tried to put the frighteners on Frank Bruno.

The banged-up, shopworn LeDoux must have known he was very near the end and that he was effectively getting well paid to fulfil the role of 'named opponent' for the undefeated Bruno, but that did not discourage him from trying it on.

At a final press call he beckoned Bruno over to him and suddenly thrust a photograph into Frank's hand. The photo was of a badly beaten-up fighter's face and LeDoux said to Bruno "take a real good look at that boy, that was my last opponent when I'd finished with him and you'll be getting plenty of the same."

The wisdom of a smaller, clapped-out pressure turning-up in a bigger, stronger and younger opponent's backyard and pulling a stunt like that is questionable. And Terry Lawless had to understandably calm Bruno down a bit with the 'boy' thing.

Crazy-brave stuff from LeDoux who seems to have gone to war with everyone he ever fought; but the Bruno fight was his last stand and after a proper beating at Wembley Arena he never fought again.

Scott LeDoux was one of the rudest crudest men I ever met.Total jerk

[crusader]

The American heavyweight Scott LeDoux....a proper old school hard man and basic but very decent slugger.....famously came over to London and tried to put the frighteners on Frank Bruno.

The banged-up, shopworn LeDoux must have known he was very near the end and that he was effectively getting well paid to fulfil the role of 'named opponent' for the undefeated Bruno, but that did not discourage him from trying it on.

At a final press call he beckoned Bruno over to him and suddenly thrust a photograph into Frank's hand. The photo was of a badly beaten-up fighter's face and LeDoux said to Bruno "take a real good look at that boy, that was my last opponent when I'd finished with him and you'll be getting plenty of the same."

The wisdom of a smaller, clapped-out pressure turning-up in a bigger, stronger and younger opponent's backyard and pulling a stunt like that is questionable. And Terry Lawless had to understandably calm Bruno down a bit with the 'boy' thing.

Crazy-brave stuff from LeDoux who seems to have gone to war with everyone he ever fought; but the Bruno fight was his last stand and after a proper beating at Wembley Arena he never fought again.

Scott LeDoux was one of the rudest crudest men I ever met.Total jerk

Care to elaborate?

[tiny_acres]

The American heavyweight Scott LeDoux....a proper old school hard man and basic but very decent slugger.....famously came over to London and tried to put the frighteners on Frank Bruno.

The banged-up, shopworn LeDoux must have known he was very near the end and that he was effectively getting well paid to fulfil the role of 'named opponent' for the undefeated Bruno, but that did not discourage him from trying it on.

At a final press call he beckoned Bruno over to him and suddenly thrust a photograph into Frank's hand. The photo was of a badly beaten-up fighter's face and LeDoux said to Bruno "take a real good look at that boy, that was my last opponent when I'd finished with him and you'll be getting plenty of the same."

The wisdom of a smaller, clapped-out pressure turning-up in a bigger, stronger and younger opponent's backyard and pulling a stunt like that is questionable. And Terry Lawless had to understandably calm Bruno down a bit with the 'boy' thing.

Crazy-brave stuff from LeDoux who seems to have gone to war with everyone he ever fought; but the Bruno fight was his last stand and after a proper beating at Wembley Arena he never fought again.

Scott LeDoux was one of the rudest crudest men I ever met.Total jerk

Care to elaborate?

I was having a conversation with him in about 2000.He brought up the Holmes fight and said how he could of beat Holmes.
I said with all due respect Scott.Larry was in a completely different class.He was an ATG.You were a solid contender but I would pick Holmes every time to win.Scott knocked over a chair and challenged me to a fight right then and there.Using langauge that would of made a sailor blush.
I tried to apologize and explain what i meant.He continued to call me out and cussing me out.

He was a real class act .....I was emailed by Scott after numerous times challenging me to a fight.
It started to become funny to me that any grown man would act this way.A real jerk.

I will say this up until the Holmes comment he was calm cool and collected.Holmes would set him off.

[Counter-puncher]

Lots of wild stories about Paul Sykes. There's quite a bit about him in the British and Irish section here.

Below is an excerpt from a documentary about him that's on YouTube; he was definitely a character.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djyqbp-wlm8

if by 'character' you mean complete sociopathic pudendum, then yes...