Danny Williams TKO'ed by 53 y.o. Andreas Sidon?

[Boxing Writer]

Does anybody know is it true? "Found out Andreas Sidon won TKO 5 over the aforementioned Danny Williams yesterday" - https://twitter.com/JArkin770/status/797864814139809792

Of course, Williams is old and shot, but even at 43 he shouldn't be losing to a 53-years-old guy who even in his prime never was anything more than a low-level European journeyman.

[jameswilson]

When you find yourself spread on the canvas.....

[Stuarty]

What a sad state of affairs for a popular cult figure in British boxing. He obviously just turns up to fall over nowadays!

[Rexob]

Good luck to him easy wasy of earning a few quid just fall over as soon as you get hit genius.

[milpool]

Was it a title fight? Only I noticed that Sidon won the vacant World Boxing Board heavyweight title in his last fight.

[Wales]

Won his previous two going into it, good enough form for shot at Haye

In seriousness is it for the money due to poor finances over the years or can't let go of the sport?

[Wales]

Remember Williams Airich? Without doubt up there as one of the most blatant corrupt fights ever. You see things like guys taking dives, but ref taking points off randomly and the home guys promoter ringing the timekeepers bell with 1min 28 of a round left cos his guy taking a flurry!! Absolute madness.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JsDNTF-EUG4

[ILikeBeer]

Won his previous two going into it, good enough form for shot at Haye

And a bit too risky for Joshua.

[lillywhite14]

Remember Williams Airich? Without doubt up there as one of the most blatant corrupt fights ever. You see things like guys taking dives, but ref taking points off randomly and the home guys promoter ringing the timekeepers bell with 1min 28 of a round left cos his guy taking a flurry!! Absolute madness.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JsDNTF-EUG4

I love watching that! As bad as it was, it's just fvcking ridiculous. Obviously what makes it is Danny getting the win in the end despite everything against him

[boxingknockout]

I'm beginning to think that half of boxrec posters would beat Williams.

[gilgamesh]

Good luck to him easy wasy of earning a few quid just fall over as soon as you get hit genius.

I would assume he got hit more than a few times over the course of 5 rounds.

[gilgamesh]

Remember Williams Airich? Without doubt up there as one of the most blatant corrupt fights ever. You see things like guys taking dives, but ref taking points off randomly and the home guys promoter ringing the timekeepers bell with 1min 28 of a round left cos his guy taking a flurry!! Absolute madness.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JsDNTF-EUG4

About as corrupt as it can get. I've only seen one other fight where the corruption was on this level. I forget the fighters names, but the guys corner was allowed to hold him up by his shorts, and he got like a full 30 seconds or so to recover because he was out on his feet.

[crusader]

Remember Williams Airich? Without doubt up there as one of the most blatant corrupt fights ever. You see things like guys taking dives, but ref taking points off randomly and the home guys promoter ringing the timekeepers bell with 1min 28 of a round left cos his guy taking a flurry!! Absolute madness.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JsDNTF-EUG4

About as corrupt as it can get. I've only seen one other fight where the corruption was on this level. I forget the fighters names, but the guys corner was allowed to hold him up by his shorts, and he got like a full 30 seconds or so to recover because he was out on his feet.

I think you may mean Juan Martin Coggi vs Eder Gonzalez, which is on top for me when it comes to blatant corruption in pro boxing. It sucks even worse than Williams-Airich IMO, because Coggi went on to win after being saved.

Salif-Petkovic and Kretschman-Bakhtov II were dreadful as well, and guess who was promoting those fights? Ahmet Oner, the same guy who put on Airich-Williams....

[Bricks]

Good luck to him easy wasy of earning a few quid just fall over as soon as you get hit genius.

I've been doing that in pubs in south london for years......it's never earnt me a Bob.

[ILikeBeer]

Good luck to him easy wasy of earning a few quid just fall over as soon as you get hit genius.

I've been doing that in pubs in south london for years......it's never earnt me a Bob.

You should insist on getting paid in advance.

[Deadendgeneration]

Remember Williams Airich? Without doubt up there as one of the most blatant corrupt fights ever. You see things like guys taking dives, but ref taking points off randomly and the home guys promoter ringing the timekeepers bell with 1min 28 of a round left cos his guy taking a flurry!! Absolute madness.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JsDNTF-EUG4

Good god, that's my first time watching that. Surely there were serious repercussions?

[ILikeBeer]

Remember Williams Airich? Without doubt up there as one of the most blatant corrupt fights ever. You see things like guys taking dives, but ref taking points off randomly and the home guys promoter ringing the timekeepers bell with 1min 28 of a round left cos his guy taking a flurry!! Absolute madness.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JsDNTF-EUG4

Good god, that's my first time watching that. Surely there were serious repercussions?

Course not. It's boxing.

[REEVE]

I hate to see fighters go on to long, danny should of retired after the chishora fight.

[gilgamesh]

Remember Williams Airich? Without doubt up there as one of the most blatant corrupt fights ever. You see things like guys taking dives, but ref taking points off randomly and the home guys promoter ringing the timekeepers bell with 1min 28 of a round left cos his guy taking a flurry!! Absolute madness.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JsDNTF-EUG4

About as corrupt as it can get. I've only seen one other fight where the corruption was on this level. I forget the fighters names, but the guys corner was allowed to hold him up by his shorts, and he got like a full 30 seconds or so to recover because he was out on his feet.

I think you may mean Juan Martin Coggi vs Eder Gonzalez, which is on top for me when it comes to blatant corruption in pro boxing. It sucks even worse than Williams-Airich IMO, because Coggi went on to win after being saved.

Salif-Petkovic and Kretschman-Bakhtov II were dreadful as well, and guess who was promoting those fights? Ahmet Oner, the same guy who put on Airich-Williams....

Wow. Surely that bastard has been banned from the sport by now huh? And yes indeed Coggi vs Gonzalez is the fight I was mentioning. That was just despicable.

[crusader]

So is Sidon next for AJ then

[Dixonian]

Here's "highlights" from the bizarre spectacle. Weirdly it doesn't show the knockout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8s2lS8kiqw

[crusader]

Some laughs from the audience at that....

[keithmoonhangover]

I'm beginning to think that half of boxrec posters would beat Williams.

My money's on Danny.

[rhino222]

I'm beginning to think that half of boxrec posters would beat Williams.

all at once?

On an individual one to one basis, i think i would do quite well against danny. Id be in there, throwing my full arsenal of shots, doubling up the uppercuts and looking the part. Then Danny would make his ring entrance :0)

[ILikeBeer]

I'm beginning to think that half of boxrec posters would beat Williams.

all at once?

On an individual one to one basis, i think i would do quite well against danny. Id be in there, throwing my full arsenal of shots, doubling up the uppercuts and looking the part. Then Danny would make his ring entrance :0)

You'd probably still look better than me. I'd look like that episode of The Simpsons when Homer was a boxer, and he struggled to get through the ropes.