Pros that you faced as an amateur

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Pros that you faced as an amateur

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Ive not got much to say myself, to my knowledge i only boxed one who turned pro, in my first amateur and lost KO1 :oops: vs Curtis Valentine.

Although im sure there will be some on here who have some good names on their resume...
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Valentine is a big puncher, no disgrace losing to him :salut:
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Got 2 cuz who boxed am one went pro the other didn't. He one that didn't had fought kev Mitchell Martin gethin Don broadhurst a kid Called nick Mcdonald who had a few pro fights all in the ams. Theirs a couple more but not sure who.
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palooka wrote:Valentine is a big puncher, no disgrace losing to him :salut:
He took ryan tank Aston unbeaten record wen Aston was signed to match room and big things expected of him
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maley1984 wrote:Got 2 cuz who boxed am one went pro the other didn't. He one that didn't had fought kev Mitchell Martin gethin Don broadhurst a kid Called nick Mcdonald who had a few pro fights all in the ams. Theirs a couple more but not sure who.
I remember Nick McDonald, he was really good - I thought he'd do well as a pro, didn't he have had hands?

There was a poster on here who'd seen Curtis Valentine box as an amateur and he said he'd scored some really big knockouts - he wasn't surprised at the Aston win.
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palooka wrote:
maley1984 wrote:Got 2 cuz who boxed am one went pro the other didn't. He one that didn't had fought kev Mitchell Martin gethin Don broadhurst a kid Called nick Mcdonald who had a few pro fights all in the ams. Theirs a couple more but not sure who.
I remember Nick McDonald, he was really good - I thought he'd do well as a pro, didn't he have had hands?

There was a poster on here who'd seen Curtis Valentine box as an amateur and he said he'd scored some really big knockouts - he wasn't surprised at the Aston win.
not sure Wat happened with Mcdonald think he got in some trouble with the law. But he was a excellent am.

I think the the poster might have been damianhucker1 his local to valentine but I cud b wrong
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palooka wrote:
maley1984 wrote:Got 2 cuz who boxed am one went pro the other didn't. He one that didn't had fought kev Mitchell Martin gethin Don broadhurst a kid Called nick Mcdonald who had a few pro fights all in the ams. Theirs a couple more but not sure who.
I remember Nick McDonald, he was really good - I thought he'd do well as a pro, didn't he have had hands?

There was a poster on here who'd seen Curtis Valentine box as an amateur and he said he'd scored some really big knockouts - he wasn't surprised at the Aston win.
As far as I know Valentine had somewhere in the region of 30 amateur bouts. 25 wins with 23 of those by way of knockout. I may got the figures a little wrong and I'll ask him next time I see him but those numbers are not far out.
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Looking On wrote:Ive not got much to say myself, to my knowledge i only boxed one who turned pro, in my first amateur and lost KO1 :oops: vs Curtis Valentine.
I got done in a round by Colin Derrick, bodyshot that still hurt a month later.
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Never, to my knowledge. But sparred with quite a few. One of my clubmates/ friends boxed Anyhony Joshua twice though.
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Can't remember many names. Jamie McLevy I'm sure as a schoolboy. Mate of mine fought Craig McEwan as a senior am and Ricky Burns as a junior am. Probably more but they names stick out.
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Micheal Lomax, Wayne Pinder, Jamie Moore, Danny Reynolds, Damien Brown, Anthony Hallett,
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Cazelo wrote:
palooka wrote:
maley1984 wrote:Got 2 cuz who boxed am one went pro the other didn't. He one that didn't had fought kev Mitchell Martin gethin Don broadhurst a kid Called nick Mcdonald who had a few pro fights all in the ams. Theirs a couple more but not sure who.
I remember Nick McDonald, he was really good - I thought he'd do well as a pro, didn't he have had hands?

There was a poster on here who'd seen Curtis Valentine box as an amateur and he said he'd scored some really big knockouts - he wasn't surprised at the Aston win.
As far as I know Valentine had somewhere in the region of 30 amateur bouts. 25 wins with 23 of those by way of knockout. I may got the figures a little wrong and I'll ask him next time I see him but those numbers are not far out.
That's some going :salut:
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I boxed nigel Wright in the north east counties abas.He just boxed with my stable mate for England at Kulala lumpur. He was red hot I think he went on to win double aba championship. Mally Maciver from Yorkshire in the Yorkshire aba final. He won central area belt. The reverse to the question I boxed Frankie Gavin as a pro who was an outstanding amateur.
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Nigel Wright was a good fighter, why did he retire? He seemed to hit hard with every punch and was very well balanced, he knew how to box alright.
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Yeah very well schooled he seemed to glide in and out as an amateur very good foot work. He finished on medical grounds just before fighting for the British title
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tijuana1 wrote:Yeah very well schooled he seemed to glide in and out as an amateur very good foot work. He finished on medical grounds just before fighting for the British title
:TU: cheers that's a shame, must be gutting for a fighter.
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I got talking to a guy Roy Connors and he boxed and beat Nigel Benn,Michael Watson and the Canadian superstar at the time Sean O Sullivan not a bad list he lived on the same street as me when he was a kid
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stevedoc wrote:I got talking to a guy Roy Connors and he boxed and beat Nigel Benn,Michael Watson and the Canadian superstar if the time Sean O Sullivan not a bad list hw lived on the same street as me when he was a kid
Roy is modest and was a fantastic boxer too
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Noel Wilder's, alex moon, adey Lewis and Dave Coldwell, think a few more went pro but can't remember names
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reggaereggae wrote:
stevedoc wrote:I got talking to a guy Roy Connors and he boxed and beat Nigel Benn,Michael Watson and the Canadian superstar if the time Sean O Sullivan not a bad list hw lived on the same street as me when he was a kid
Roy is modest and was a fantastic boxer too
i only met him about 2 years back i was blown away speaking to him he said he went around 100 fights unbeaten .amazing
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Me mates dad beat Kirkland laing and theres a bloke in my local that beat Glenn mcrory as a schoolboy, apparently his daughters got in touch with mcrory and he rang the bloke up on his 50th birthday to wish him well and had a chat which I thought was a nice touch
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littlepug wrote:Me mates dad beat Kirkland laing and theres a bloke in my local that beat Glenn mcrory as a schoolboy, apparently his daughters got in touch with mcrory and he rang the bloke up on his 50th birthday to wish him well and had a chat which I thought was a nice touch
Yeah, that's a thoughtful thing to do.
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maley1984 wrote:
palooka wrote:
maley1984 wrote:Got 2 cuz who boxed am one went pro the other didn't. He one that didn't had fought kev Mitchell Martin gethin Don broadhurst a kid Called nick Mcdonald who had a few pro fights all in the ams. Theirs a couple more but not sure who.
I remember Nick McDonald, he was really good - I thought he'd do well as a pro, didn't he have had hands?

There was a poster on here who'd seen Curtis Valentine box as an amateur and he said he'd scored some really big knockouts - he wasn't surprised at the Aston win.
not sure Wat happened with Mcdonald think he got in some trouble with the law. But he was a excellent am.

I think the the poster might have been damianhucker1 his local to valentine but I cud b wrong
May have been me, i dont remember tbh but i did spar him a couple of times back in the day and he certainly bangs..
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stevedoc wrote:
reggaereggae wrote:
stevedoc wrote:I got talking to a guy Roy Connors and he boxed and beat Nigel Benn,Michael Watson and the Canadian superstar if the time Sean O Sullivan not a bad list hw lived on the same street as me when he was a kid
Roy is modest and was a fantastic boxer too
i only met him about 2 years back i was blown away speaking to him he said he went around 100 fights unbeaten .amazing
Yeah... He's very modest with his achievements bizarrely. I introduced a non-boxing person to him and mentioned the Benn and Watson win and he made a joke about me getting their names wrong. Great fighter, jacked it in young
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Wakened din, paul gidney - sure there'll be more just can't think :doh:
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