Boxers who work other jobs

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Glenn Catley was a security guard outside Bristol shops.

Tony Booth, according to the documentary, worked every job going in Hull...for about a week each
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Not a proper job obviously but wasn't Sonny Liston an enforcer for the Chicago Outfit?
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I think Paul Pender was a fireman too.
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banjo wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 11:17 Not a proper job obviously but wasn't Sonny Liston an enforcer for the Chicago Outfit?
Khurtsidze had a similar role for the Georgian mafia..

Also Mark Krence - the Boxing Butcher
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johnty1888 wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 11:07
ShadrachSimmo wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 07:49 Pretty sure Steve Robinson was on the dole just before become world champion.
I think he was a warehouseman somewhere
Next, wasn’t it?
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Google says Debenhams in Cardiff.
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Jim McDonnell- Camden Caretaker
Bernard Paul-Postman
Bob Foster-a Sherif
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BJS - clown :lol:
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Michael sprott worked at kwik fit
I know few boxers used to do security work aswell
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banjo wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 11:19 I think Paul Pender was a fireman too.
He was. Tony Dodson’s not long got in as well.

The shifts work well with training tbh
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Jimmy Cable... painter & dec'.

Steve Cruz... plumbing apprentice.

There's a FLT driver who i can't recall.
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fizzjambo wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 14:32
banjo wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 11:19 I think Paul Pender was a fireman too.
He was. Tony Dodson’s not long got in as well.

The shifts work well with training tbh
Nigel Travis was known as 'the fighting fireman' in his am days.
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Didn’t RJJ once fight a police officer? No idea what his name was.
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I think RJ fought the police, the fire department, the milk men, the post office, and the plumber
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margaret thatcher wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 16:10 I think RJ fought the police, the fire department, the milk men, the post office, and the plumber
:lol:
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Charlie Hardcastle of Barnsley knocked out Alf Wye of Hoxton in one round to win the vacant British Featherweight title on Monday, June 4th 1917. He travelled back to Barnsley, from London, on the train on the Tuesday afternoon, with his Lonsdale belt, and then went back down the pit for a full shift on the Wednesday morning.

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My Name Is Earl wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 15:22
fizzjambo wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 14:32
banjo wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 11:19 I think Paul Pender was a fireman too.
He was. Tony Dodson’s not long got in as well.

The shifts work well with training tbh
Nigel Travis was known as 'the fighting fireman' in his am days.
Does the fire brigade have a boxing team? You know like the Army, Navy, RAF have boxing teams?
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banjo wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 17:44
My Name Is Earl wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 15:22
fizzjambo wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 14:32

He was. Tony Dodson’s not long got in as well.

The shifts work well with training tbh
Nigel Travis was known as 'the fighting fireman' in his am days.
Does the fire brigade have a boxing team? You know like the Army, Navy, RAF have boxing teams?
Not up here but I’m not sure about down south? We did an amateur event against the Police a few years back but it was very much a one off.

A lot of guys train though, both boxing and MMA. Lawrence Murphy (won and lost against Elcock) is in the job as well
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dave mccauley - chef
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Alberto Davila drove a beer truck.
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Mark Potter as a landlord
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John McDermott had an interesting job. French polisher or something.
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Jeff horn was teaching right up untill he got the manny Pac fight im pretty sure.
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Graham Fearn has a job at Nestle doing continental shifts. And trained in Leeds. And had young kids. He once boxed in London at late notice with no sleep and his wife going on at him.
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mercman wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 16:41 Richard Dunn was a scaffolder.
had a bad accident and got a decent pay out i believe, lives in Scarborough I think
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