Ex boxers current jobs

[banjo]

Jiro Watanabe is a Yakuza

[Taansend]

Gary Stretch is a C list actor

I really enjoyed Dead Mans Shoes. Good film.

[Taansend]

Gary Stretch is a shocking actor. Luckily the movies he stars in only cost around $25 to make. As a boxer he was a domestic level boxer only at light middleweight and how he got a shot at Chris Eubank for the WBO middleweight title is beyond me.

He was a good looking lad who was in the tabloids a fair amount. They wanted a quick, easy, defense after the Sherry nonsense & before the Watson fight.

[Mimmy]

Gary Stretch is a shocking actor. Luckily the movies he stars in only cost around $25 to make. As a boxer he was a domestic level boxer only at light middleweight and how he got a shot at Chris Eubank for the WBO middleweight title is beyond me.

He was a good looking lad who was in the tabloids a fair amount. They wanted a quick, easy, defense after the Sherry nonsense & before the Watson fight.

I agree, if Stretch was a run of the mill 'looking' boxer he wouldnt have got where he is i doubt. As a younger man he was quite pretty, my wife liked him with his combed back hair. And as a middle aged bloke he has the appeal to be a bad guy actor, but his acting is so poor he can only land z movies like Sharknado. It is possibly his best acting movie was Dead Mans Shoes, but thats the only one ive seen in full so I cant say it was for sure.

IMDB movie ratings have his movies rated quite poorly also.

[jamesmcdonnell]

Mr Magri here has recently lost his cleaning job due to arthritis.

Oh that's sad to hear. Last I'd heard he was doing demolition work.

[Coco]

IT was in one of the tabloids about Magri, it was a good while back

[boxingknockout]

Gary Stretch is a shocking actor. Luckily the movies he stars in only cost around $25 to make. As a boxer he was a domestic level boxer only at light middleweight and how he got a shot at Chris Eubank for the WBO middleweight title is beyond me.

had me laughing!

I think people are forgetting a few facts about Stretch when saying he would never had got so far without his looks.

Number 1: Even though Gary kod amateur star George Collins in 1 round in Collins’ last fight before going pro, it was Collins who received all the publicity and hype.

Number 2: Stretch was not high profile before the Eubank fight. He hadn’t fought at middleweight as I remember. When he was matched with Eubank, the press pushed his looks, and the fight got loads of publicity including I think Wogan?!? (Not sure)

Number 3: Stretch was no bum - apart from a cuts loss he had not been beaten and was ambitious. A lot better than many of Eubank’s defences. (He did however get stopped in a round by David Hunt...)

Number 4: Gary was leading on points at the time of the stoppage and was boxing well.

Number 5: Stretch used to fluck an ageing Raquel Welch.

[Flump]

Gary Stretch is a shocking actor. Luckily the movies he stars in only cost around $25 to make. As a boxer he was a domestic level boxer only at light middleweight and how he got a shot at Chris Eubank for the WBO middleweight title is beyond me.

You could say that about quite a few of Eubanks opponents.

Indeed, I have no argument about that point.

The WBO in the 90's was largely sustained by Brits who weren't good enough to fight for/win genuine world titles.

[Taansend]

Gary Stretch is a shocking actor. Luckily the movies he stars in only cost around $25 to make. As a boxer he was a domestic level boxer only at light middleweight and how he got a shot at Chris Eubank for the WBO middleweight title is beyond me.

Number 2: Stretch was not high profile before the Eubank fight. He hadn’t fought at middleweight as I remember. When he was matched with Eubank, the press pushed his looks, and the fight got loads of publicity including I think Wogan?!? (Not sure)

I think that pretty much proves the point. If he hadn't have been a boxer/model he wouldn't have been on Wogan or all the other attention.

No one is saying he was crap, just pointing out that he was a British title level fighter at Light Middle. He got the shot at Eubank because of the marketing aspect. If he had looked like Ricky Hatton I doubt very much if he would have fought for the Middleweight title. He'd had one fight in the previous 14 months & that was against an Argie who'd won 36 of his 99 fights.

As for Raquel Welch, he says it wasn't true.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/ ... tmonthly12

[Alba]

Enzo maccranelli runs the kitchen at a motor way service station

[Taansend]

Enzo maccranelli runs the kitchen at a motor way service station

[leejonesjnr]

Ernie Shavers was a bouncer at Yates' Wine Lodge in Liverpool.

How long ago was this?
Last time I met Ernie Shavers he was doing motivational speaking as a Christian preacher.

[boxingknockout]

Gary Stretch is a shocking actor. Luckily the movies he stars in only cost around $25 to make. As a boxer he was a domestic level boxer only at light middleweight and how he got a shot at Chris Eubank for the WBO middleweight title is beyond me.

Number 2: Stretch was not high profile before the Eubank fight. He hadn’t fought at middleweight as I remember. When he was matched with Eubank, the press pushed his looks, and the fight got loads of publicity including I think Wogan?!? (Not sure)

I think that pretty much proves the point. If he hadn't have been a boxer/model he wouldn't have been on Wogan or all the other attention.

No one is saying he was crap, just pointing out that he was a British title level fighter at Light Middle. He got the shot at Eubank because of the marketing aspect. If he had looked like Ricky Hatton I doubt very much if he would have fought for the Middleweight title. He'd had one fight in the previous 14 months & that was against an Argie who'd won 36 of his 99 fights.

As for Raquel Welch, he says it wasn't true.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/ ... tmonthly12

Some good points here. However I take issue with the bolded text. Hatton is considered quite a looker in his part of Manchester..... Anthony Farnell is considered something of a supermodel also.

[Taansend]

Number 2: Stretch was not high profile before the Eubank fight. He hadn’t fought at middleweight as I remember. When he was matched with Eubank, the press pushed his looks, and the fight got loads of publicity including I think Wogan?!? (Not sure)

I think that pretty much proves the point. If he hadn't have been a boxer/model he wouldn't have been on Wogan or all the other attention.

No one is saying he was crap, just pointing out that he was a British title level fighter at Light Middle. He got the shot at Eubank because of the marketing aspect. If he had looked like Ricky Hatton I doubt very much if he would have fought for the Middleweight title. He'd had one fight in the previous 14 months & that was against an Argie who'd won 36 of his 99 fights.

As for Raquel Welch, he says it wasn't true.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/ ... tmonthly12

Some good points here. However I take issue with the bolded text. Hatton is considered quite a looker in his part of Manchester..... Anthony Farnell is considered something of a supermodel also.

[KiwiRider]

David Tua runs a health and fitness gym in South Auckland.
He also does community work teaching at risk youth boxing.
Met him eariler this year, the dude is the size of a small bus!

[Mimmy]

Darrin Van Horn is now a police officer.

[bigjack]

Darrin Van Horn is now a police officer.

I thought he was Vanilla Ice

[Mimmy]

Scott Welch ran a nursing home but also appeared on tv in a restoration programme where he restored Thorington Gate Lodge that had been derelict for over 20 years.

[tsunami]

Theres a few ex boxers in the bailiff industry.
Paul butlin is one.

[Mimmy]

Nicky Piper now works for The City Hospice in Cardiff.

https://www.cityhospice.org.uk/News/our ... ty-hospice

Not sure his capacity is however.

[Kalan]

Vitali Klitschko is mayor of Kiev.... I think Wladimir is studying acting.

[banjo]

Darrin Van Horn is now a police officer.

I thought he was Vanilla Ice

He was Iced Iced Baby when he met Barkley.

[Deno1986]

John Simpson was working in Aldi in Greenock but unsure if he still is....

Excellent domestic boxer was Simpson. He was certainly on the wrong end of a few bad decisions in my opinion. I wonder is he involved in boxing at all any more?

[bigjack]

Darrin Van Horn is now a police officer.

I thought he was Vanilla Ice

He was Iced Iced Baby when he met Barkley.

He was indeed,showed a great chin though by the way Vanilla Ice is Robert Van Winkle,easy to get them mixed up at my age

[Arnie.]

I think that pretty much proves the point. If he hadn't have been a boxer/model he wouldn't have been on Wogan or all the other attention.

No one is saying he was crap, just pointing out that he was a British title level fighter at Light Middle. He got the shot at Eubank because of the marketing aspect. If he had looked like Ricky Hatton I doubt very much if he would have fought for the Middleweight title. He'd had one fight in the previous 14 months & that was against an Argie who'd won 36 of his 99 fights.

As for Raquel Welch, he says it wasn't true.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/ ... tmonthly12

Some good points here. However I take issue with the bolded text. Hatton is considered quite a looker in his part of Manchester..... Anthony Farnell is considered something of a supermodel also.

True this