HW danny williams still fighting

[SAPFO]

Eddie, please get Danny Williams on as a pundit for the AJ card, even the Whyte card if possible. You'd gain huge respect from within the community by giving the bloke the chance to share his vast high-level HW experience, rather than get beat up in feckin Latvia.

[gilgamesh]

He definitely needs somebody to give him a break in the Boxing industry that's not "Hey we got another fight for ya Danny"

Don't know if he'd make a good TV announcer or not, but surely they could find something for him to do. I ran into Lamon Brewster who had some sorta token job that they'd given him. Not really sure what it was, but he was getting paid.

Best I could gather he was sort of Security like a bouncer or something. Perhaps he was specifically looking after a few key people if the crowd got rowdy or something

Point is....they found something for him.

[stujones]

Paul Boyce won the purse bid for Gammer v Williams for about 60k, so I guess as challenger Williams would have got 20k less his expenses. It doesn't exactly set you up for life.

No but these 20K, 30K paydays do mount up and are pretty decent wages.

Decent enough if you get 3 a year, but at the end of the day earning 60k a year in London gives you an average life when you are fighting but doesn't leave much for the pension pot. If he has bought a house a car, keeps a missus and puts his kids in private school, he isn't left with anything at the end of each financial year.

All valid and correct, but at the same time you don't see many London based fighters continue until their 44 - let alone a London based fighter who has earned like Danny. Some good investments and I am sure he could have been comfortable particularly if he was doing even a part time job.

[Kassel]

I would wonder if he is being paid at all for some of his recent contests.
He has won 3 of his last 4 but it is unlikely that his opponents were selling tickets and I wouldn't have thought that Danny Williams pulls a crowd for a 4 rounder in Czech Republic these days.

Exactly the point I made mate. These low key fights in small venues with modest ticket prices just won't generate the cash to pay decent purses (if any at all). The local fighters will get a percentage of tickets they sell & It may be the case that promoters are doing Danny a favour by letting him fight at their events - the promoter provides the hotel room & picks up the travel costs, but that could be about it. There may be an element of sponsorship from private sources, but whatever the case, money may not be the primary motivation for boxing at such venues.

[Tommyscc]

I would wonder if he is being paid at all for some of his recent contests.
He has won 3 of his last 4 but it is unlikely that his opponents were selling tickets and I wouldn't have thought that Danny Williams pulls a crowd for a 4 rounder in Czech Republic these days.

Exactly the point I made mate. These low key fights in small venues with modest ticket prices just won't generate the cash to pay decent purses (if any at all). The local fighters will get a percentage of tickets they sell & It may be the case that promoters are doing Danny a favour by letting him fight at their events - the promoter provides the hotel room & picks up the travel costs, but that could be about it. There may be an element of sponsorship from private sources, but whatever the case, money may not be the primary motivation for boxing at such venues.

Hotel room?? I was under the impression he is flown in on the morning and gets the next available Flight back to Heathrow after his fight

[Kassel]

I would wonder if he is being paid at all for some of his recent contests.
He has won 3 of his last 4 but it is unlikely that his opponents were selling tickets and I wouldn't have thought that Danny Williams pulls a crowd for a 4 rounder in Czech Republic these days.

Exactly the point I made mate. These low key fights in small venues with modest ticket prices just won't generate the cash to pay decent purses (if any at all). The local fighters will get a percentage of tickets they sell & It may be the case that promoters are doing Danny a favour by letting him fight at their events - the promoter provides the hotel room & picks up the travel costs, but that could be about it. There may be an element of sponsorship from private sources, but whatever the case, money may not be the primary motivation for boxing at such venues.

Hotel room?? I was under the impression he is flown in on the morning and gets the next available Flight back to Heathrow after his fight

Gotta be at least one night's accomodation involved me thinks, be unusual to get a flight back same night as fighting, next day would be more likely....

[leejonesjnr]

Exactly the point I made mate. These low key fights in small venues with modest ticket prices just won't generate the cash to pay decent purses (if any at all). The local fighters will get a percentage of tickets they sell & It may be the case that promoters are doing Danny a favour by letting him fight at their events - the promoter provides the hotel room & picks up the travel costs, but that could be about it. There may be an element of sponsorship from private sources, but whatever the case, money may not be the primary motivation for boxing at such venues.

Hotel room?? I was under the impression he is flown in on the morning and gets the next available Flight back to Heathrow after his fight

Gotta be at least one night's accomodation involved me thinks, be unusual to get a flight back same night as fighting, next day would be more likely....

Dunno really, it isn't uncommon for the European red corner boxers to fly home the same night

[Tommyscc]

Hotel room?? I was under the impression he is flown in on the morning and gets the next available Flight back to Heathrow after his fight

Gotta be at least one night's accomodation involved me thinks, be unusual to get a flight back same night as fighting, next day would be more likely....

Dunno really, it isn't uncommon for the European red corner boxers to fly home the same night

I read that’in the book “no boloney” the European fighters were in and out same day

[dirk2686]

Regarding the private school line, a quick check on Google suggests the average cost of private education in the UK is just over £13,000 per year.

I'm not sure Danny would be anywhere near to clearing that sort of money from these fights to be honest. It's not even like he's fighting regularly. He only fought once in 2017 and 2016 plus two fights in 2015.

[Gnome]

Regarding the private school line, a quick check on Google suggests the average cost of private education in the UK is just over £13,000 per year.

I'm not sure Danny would be anywhere near to clearing that sort of money from these fights to be honest. It's not even like he's fighting regularly. He only fought once in 2017 and 2016 plus two fights in 2015.

He's probably got money coming in from elsewhere and he's supplementing it. Ever little helps.

[jamesmcdonnell]

I know he was training to be a bodyguard he was doing a close protection exam. Wonder what happened to that?

[Tommyscc]

I always really liked Williams which is why
I have made a few posts
Has any body interviewed him recently always seems a mystery he does such as body guard exams, Fighting on the way east euro circuit what’s going on???
Side notes, where’s Sprott?

[chinarich]

Danny Williams: world champion...

I check on Boxrec periodically to see whether Danny has added another bout to his Eastern European ‘adventure’. Not only did he recently pick up a rare victory but he also won a ‘world’ title of sorts and is the new GBF champion. It’s worth noting that to do it he beat 3-42 Martin Stensky who he had beaten twice previously.

Hope he finally hangs ‘em up now...

[Belaqua]

Now there's a coincidence, I posted the same thing on the Prince Patel thread a couple of hours ago (Williams fight was on the same bill as Patels)

Didn't realise their was a dedicated Williams thread.

[chinarich]

Williams on a four fight win streak, he picked up another first round KO on 11/5 in Hungary which has just been posted on Boxrec...

[dawudboxer]

He had another win that hasn’t been included on boxrec for some reason.

[Bleak]

Where? Who against

[Floyd the snake]

Probably mean Lee Mcallister debacle.

[Petercattermole]

He 'Lost' that fight-post said a win not on BR

Probably mean Lee Mcallister debacle.

[Terminator666]

Does he need the money desperately or is it love of the sport that he can’t let go?

[leejonesjnr]

Does he need the money desperately or is it love of the sport that he can’t let go?

Easier to get a job if it was just for the money

[Oiky]

Off his rocker

[Coco]

I always really liked Williams which is why
I have made a few posts
Has any body interviewed him recently always seems a mystery he does such as body guard exams, Fighting on the way east euro circuit what’s going on???
Side notes, where’s Sprott?

Body guarding is hard to get into, the exams are expensive and not easy to do.
If you do pass them you then need to find a job. The exam stuff is a business to extract money normally from nightclub bouncers.
The people who get the work work in Africa and the Middle East in lawless areas protecting oil fields and the like. They won't even look at you for this work unless you are ex military.

[chinarich]

I always really liked Williams which is why
I have made a few posts
Has any body interviewed him recently always seems a mystery he does such as body guard exams, Fighting on the way east euro circuit what’s going on???
Side notes, where’s Sprott?

Body guarding is hard to get into, the exams are expensive and not easy to do.
If you do pass them you then need to find a job. The exam stuff is a business to extract money normally from nightclub bouncers.
The people who get the work work in Africa and the Middle East in lawless areas protecting oil fields and the like. They won't even look at you for this work unless you are ex military.

After the McAllister fight he was indeed off to Africa (Nigeria) for a bodyguard contract.

Maybe he had a cheeky fight when he was over there?

[Coco]

I always really liked Williams which is why
I have made a few posts
Has any body interviewed him recently always seems a mystery he does such as body guard exams, Fighting on the way east euro circuit what’s going on???
Side notes, where’s Sprott?

Body guarding is hard to get into, the exams are expensive and not easy to do.
If you do pass them you then need to find a job. The exam stuff is a business to extract money normally from nightclub bouncers.
The people who get the work work in Africa and the Middle East in lawless areas protecting oil fields and the like. They won't even look at you for this work unless you are ex military.

After the McAllister fight he was indeed off to Africa (Nigeria) for a bodyguard contract.

Maybe he had a cheeky fight when he was over there?

This type of work is pretty lucrative, pays much better than boxing