blanca wrote: ↑22 May 2021, 07:17
Takes me back. Remember I was a kid and on the day bazza fought taylor me and my sis went for a day out in blackpool with my mum and grandad on the train from sheffield. I recall taking my pocket radio and earphones and being on the way back on a train between blackpool and manchester, getting the commentary on the radio, signal going every now and again. My days thats a long time ago.
Was it one of those little dark green radios that you could slip into your trouser pocket? I had one of those that I took everywhere!
blanca wrote: ↑22 May 2021, 07:17
Takes me back. Remember I was a kid and on the day bazza fought taylor me and my sis went for a day out in blackpool with my mum and grandad on the train from sheffield. I recall taking my pocket radio and earphones and being on the way back on a train between blackpool and manchester, getting the commentary on the radio, signal going every now and again. My days thats a long time ago.
Was it one of those little dark green radios that you could slip into your trouser pocket? I had one of those that I took everywhere!
Mine was red, but yep one of those little rectangle ones, analogue dial, only had MW and FM on it. Think it was Radio 2 who broadcasted the fight on MW, so being on the train it was a proper dodgy signal, buzzing, whistling etc. Earphone only a single ear one as well, not two earpieces Nowadays id have been able to watch it via 4g on my phone
That's a great story blanca listening to McGuigan's fight on the radio
I've some fantastic memories of listening to big fights on the radio....Bruno-Coetzee, McKenzie-Bohol, Bruno-Tyson 1, Hearns-Leonard 2, Andries-Harding 1, Froch-Taylor, Froch-Abraham, Lee-Saunders, Khan-Canelo
blanca wrote: ↑22 May 2021, 13:33
Just saw bazza fought Taylor only 3 months after winning the title. Nowadays you could double that before their first defence.
McGuigan won the world title on a Saturday night in June 1985 and was back in the gym on the following Monday. Unsurprisingly, he was all used up by the age of 28, when he retired.
Errol Christie had sparring wars all day every day at Kronk for months. He obviously didn’t have the jaw or skull density to prevent cell and nerve damage, because he kept getting knocked out after that and was done.
Chris Eubank saw a dentist (after Christie knocked his tooth out in sparring incidently) who said on x-ray that his jaw was twice the size of the average mans.
blanca wrote: ↑22 May 2021, 07:17
Takes me back. Remember I was a kid and on the day bazza fought taylor me and my sis went for a day out in blackpool with my mum and grandad on the train from sheffield. I recall taking my pocket radio and earphones and being on the way back on a train between blackpool and manchester, getting the commentary on the radio, signal going every now and again. My days thats a long time ago.
Was it one of those little dark green radios that you could slip into your trouser pocket? I had one of those that I took everywhere!
Mine was red, but yep one of those little rectangle ones, analogue dial, only had MW and FM on it. Think it was Radio 2 who broadcasted the fight on MW, so being on the train it was a proper dodgy signal, buzzing, whistling etc. Earphone only a single ear one as well, not two earpieces Nowadays id have been able to watch it via 4g on my phone
Used to call them a 'tranny'...different times eh
Popular with the 'nerds' at football matches too, keeping everyone up to date how their rivals were doing as you
watched your team.
THEBUTCH wrote: ↑24 May 2021, 19:48
That's a great story blanca listening to McGuigan's fight on the radio
I've some fantastic memories of listening to big fights on the radio....Bruno-Coetzee, McKenzie-Bohol, Bruno-Tyson 1, Hearns-Leonard 2, Andries-Harding 1, Froch-Taylor, Froch-Abraham, Lee-Saunders, Khan-Canelo
Same here. Setting the alarm to get up and listen to the radio.
Ian Darke was THE man. Synonymous with the game, still never bettered.
coghaugen11 wrote: ↑25 May 2021, 04:38
Chris Eubank saw a dentist (after Christie knocked his tooth out in sparring incidently) who said on x-ray that his jaw was twice the size of the average mans.
coghaugen11 wrote: ↑25 May 2021, 04:38
Chris Eubank saw a dentist (after Christie knocked his tooth out in sparring incidently) who said on x-ray that his jaw was twice the size of the average mans.
Tyson-Bruno 2 in prison on a crappy little radio. To make things worse, the lads below us didn't have a radio so we had to pump the toilet empty, they did theirs, and put the radio at the bottom so both cells could here it. Four young offenders on different landings knelt round an empty toilet listening to the big fight! The toilet trick was quite common if you got on with those above or below you.
mickey1975 wrote: ↑25 May 2021, 05:14
Tyson-Bruno 2 in prison on a crappy little radio. To make things worse, the lads below us didn't have a radio so we had to pump the toilet empty, they did theirs, and put the radio at the bottom so both cells could here it. Four young offenders on different landings knelt round an empty toilet listening to the big fight! The toilet trick was quite common if you got on with those above or below you.
coghaugen11 wrote: ↑25 May 2021, 04:38
Chris Eubank saw a dentist (after Christie knocked his tooth out in sparring incidently) who said on x-ray that his jaw was twice the size of the average mans.
True story.
Except it defies the laws of biology... just park your ongoing obsession for one second and think about what Eubank would really look like with a jaw twice of the size of other men...
Except it defies the laws of biology... just park your ongoing obsession for one second and think about what Eubank would really look like with a jaw twice of the size of other men...
As Cog says, the man is a one off. His nostrils must be triple the size of the average man. He could snort an ounce up each in one line.
Except it defies the laws of biology... just park your ongoing obsession for one second and think about what Eubank would really look like with a jaw twice of the size of other men...
We all have exactly the same skeleton. Identical. That’s why a mans wrist ranges from 4 to 11 inches - they’re the same!
coghaugen11 wrote: ↑25 May 2021, 05:13
True story.
Except it defies the laws of biology... just park your ongoing obsession for one second and think about what Eubank would really look like with a jaw twice of the size of other men...
We all have exactly the same skeleton. Identical. That’s why a mans wrist ranges from 4 to 11 inches - they’re the same!
Fray Bentos wrote: ↑21 May 2021, 07:30
Taylor boxed his head off that night - that was a boxing lesson but I read at the time McGuigan broke his rib(s)?
Well... he boxed McGuigan's head off for 6 to 7 rounds - in my opinion one of the great uncrowned champions... got KO'd by Hector Lopez a short time later...
Hector Lopez reached an Olympic boxing final at just 17 and could have been special but he roamed the Los Angeles barrios as a gang member and took drugs. He still rocked Kostya Tszyu to his boots in a 10-rounder in 1994.
Fray Bentos wrote: ↑21 May 2021, 07:30
Taylor boxed his head off that night - that was a boxing lesson but I read at the time McGuigan broke his rib(s)?
Well... he boxed McGuigan's head off for 6 to 7 rounds - in my opinion one of the great uncrowned champions... got KO'd by Hector Lopez a short time later...
Hector Lopez reached an Olympic boxing final at just 17 and could have been special but he roamed the Los Angeles barrios as a gang member and took drugs. He still rocked Kostya Tszyu to his boots in a 10-rounder in 1994.
Damn good fight, that.
Just watched this myself, thankfully there's a very good copy on YouTube - cracking fight.
Hector Lopez reached an Olympic boxing final at just 17 and could have been special but he roamed the Los Angeles barrios as a gang member and took drugs. He still rocked Kostya Tszyu to his boots in a 10-rounder in 1994.
Damn good fight, that.
Just watched this myself, thankfully there's a very good copy on YouTube - cracking fight.
Brilliant