Random fights

[WelshJack]

With Robbie Turley facing Anselmo Moreno in Sheffield on March 28th it got me thinking what is the strangest fight you have seen in the UK?

[handsofstone]

James Toney vs Matt Legg in PF

[WelshJack]

James Toney vs Matt Legg in PF

Great shout haha. Hasn't been that many in recent years has there?

[palooka]

Barry Jones v Acelino Freitas was a surprise.

[littlepug]

Barrera v wenton

[handsofstone]

Sergio Martinez vs Richard Wiiliams

[littlepug]

Foreman v ?

[handsofstone]

Johnny Tapia fought over right? Can't remember who against

[sgtcecil]

Barry Jones v Acelino Freitas was a surprise.

Also a surprise that jones decked him!

[littlepug]

Often forget Mcclellan won the WBO middle strap over here

[expe]

Johnny Tapia fought over right? Can't remember who against

Some import at the York Hall, along with Julio Pablo Chacon-Victor Polo, Harry Simon against Enrique Areco has to be up there too, Frank went through a weird phase around 2000.

[bripez]

Winky Wright v Steve "the Viking" Foster

[Counter-puncher]

I think it was an Italian who fought Robert quiroga, in Sunderland of all places.

[Stuarty]

I know they weren't massive names but Kotelnik vs M'Baye over here was a strange one I thought.

[Stuarty]

And a bit of a robbery if I remember correctly?

[Taansend]

Steve Little out hustling Michael Nunn on the undercard of a Nigel Benn fight.

I was a huge fan of Nunn when he was up and coming but knew he was a loon by then. Immensely talented...

[freddydoesdallas]

I remember watching Sharmba Mitchell v Mike Stewart at the MEN on a Hatton undercard. I know they were being prepped for a future opponent for Hatton but it was still a bit weird to see 2 top 10 Americans fighting for a world title over here

[Emmseegee]

I was sure I had read that Sugar Ray Robinson fought in Paisley, Scotland before.
I just double checked to find out that he did and also lost.

I know he went around a lot on the road to make extra money but as someone who knows paisley reasonably well its just hard to image a fighter of that status ever fighting there....

[orbtastic]

Liles/Littles II

John Tate, Jimmy Thunder and John Ruiz at the York Hall

Frankie Randall/Edwin Rosario at the York Hall

Angel Vasquez on a cold night in March in Derby.

[rio]

Corrie sanders fought in Darlington once. How he ended up there I will never know!

[Tangerine]

Butterbean getting kayoed in a round at a nightclub in Blackpool.That was pretty effin random?!

[freddydoesdallas]

Butterbean getting kayoed in a round at a nightclub in Blackpool.That was pretty effin random?!

He had knocked my beer over

[Rogers21]

such a random fight maybe Moreno being looked at for Jamie McDonnell as Gavin is on the card?

[bennie]

Muhammad Ali against Al "Blue" Lewis in a near-empty stadium in Dublin in 1972. Ali claimed he was Irish, caught a cold, didn't iron his shorts, floored Lewis for at least 15 seconds in the fifth round and overcame a sticky patch in the eighth and ninth to finish off Lewis in the 11th. Nobody cared.

[palooka]

The winner is Robert Quiroga v Juan Polo Perez in Sunderland.