hyped/highly rated fighters where you were like "da f@ck?"

[margaret thatcher]

he won the senior abas the year after that i think, maybe that convinced fwankie it was a fluke

[margaret thatcher]

btw the description of collins from his boxrec bio is lol

"77-1 amateur record (67-0 at one point), KO'd in one round by male model Gary Stretch on tv programme."

i know its true, but putting it like that makes it seem like some glamorous batty boy just stepped out of the crowd and iced him

[JamesPhilips]

he won the senior abas the year after that i think, maybe that convinced fwankie it was a fluke

I hadn't realised he'd done that....OK a bit more understandable but he was featured so much on TV (when it was rare) and so overhyped it was out of place. Even as a kid, who was naive about boxing, I'd look at him and think he looked pretty average. I liked Tony though I remember him wearing pink shorts and getting stopped by a yank journey man....as I remember he started complaining heartily even though he was gone.... might have slightly 'misremembered' the pink shorts in that fight...but he def wore them in some fight I'm certain.

[JamesPhilips]

btw the description of collins from his boxrec bio is lol

"77-1 amateur record (67-0 at one point), KO'd in one round by male model Gary Stretch on tv programme."

i know its true, but putting it like that makes it seem like some glamorous batty boy just stepped out of the crowd and iced him

LMFAO

[Coco]

There was a rumour he got knocked out by a Welsh rugby league player for pushing to the front of the queue in a St Helens kebab shop, Carlos prob knows the whole story.

Yeah, Stuart Evans chinned him. That was one back for rugby because Colin Jones had chinned Richard Moriarty some years earlier. I've never heard anything good said about Stretch but he was a dynamite light-middleweight, really special. As soon as he moved up to middleweight, he lost something and was out of the game by the age of 24. Pat Barrett was the same when he moved from light-welterweight to welterweight.
Just looking at the clip again when Stretch chins Collins in the NABC's, and Collins turns southpaw in a stupid attempt to taunt southpaw Stretch and gets nailed.

thanks. You have to day even though its 1-1 Rugby vs Boxing,,rugby had a big weight advantage LOL.

Ricky Hatton allegedly got Kod by a bodybuilder in a pub over some argument involving a fruit machine.... Hatton giving the big un..... can anyone confirm?

Weird thing about Collins Stretch fight is that George doesn't even look like George..... Collins was always rellay swarthy with a jet black Errol Flynn tache,, yet his hair is sandy blonde there. Still don't get why an experienced Warren, and the boxing community thought that Collins would be great. Beating up actual kids when you're a grown man (rumoured 2 years older) then getting completely (Gary) Stretched in about d is hardly the stuff of future legends......

Knocking out Stretch was attributed to a few of the players, Richard Webster was regularly put up for it too! I had heard it was Evans too, he had actually come down the boxing gym for a part of Neaths pre season training in about 1995/6. If it was him he must have got lucky as he really couldn't punch his way out of a paper bag! Getting him in a headlock or something would have been an entirely different thing!

[Coco]

I know the story about Jones and Moriarty. The rugby player was a giant of a man and proper punchy with a few beers down him.
He probably saw Jones as a feather in his cap and fancied his chances as Colin is a small guy.
Anyway Moriarty barged into Jones wife on the stairs of the Top Rank nightclub in Swansea, words were exchanged and the rugby player tried to chin the boxer. Jones just beat him to the punch and knocked him cold sprawled all over the stairs! He was out cold for a good few minutes.

[dookus]

I know the story about Jones and Moriarty. The rugby player was a giant of a man and proper punchy with a few beers down him.
He probably saw Jones as a feather in his cap and fancied his chances as Colin is a small guy.
Anyway Moriarty barged into Jones wife on the stairs of the Top Rank nightclub in Swansea, words were exchanged and the rugby player tried to chin the boxer. Jones just beat him to the punch and knocked him cold sprawled all over the stairs! He was out cold for a good few minutes.

Jesus, imagine taking a flush left hook off Colin fornicating Jones without gloves on, you'd learn your lesson pretty quick

[JamesPhilips]

I know the story about Jones and Moriarty. The rugby player was a giant of a man and proper punchy with a few beers down him.
He probably saw Jones as a feather in his cap and fancied his chances as Colin is a small guy.
Anyway Moriarty barged into Jones wife on the stairs of the Top Rank nightclub in Swansea, words were exchanged and the rugby player tried to chin the boxer. Jones just beat him to the punch and knocked him cold sprawled all over the stairs! He was out cold for a good few minutes.

Jesus, imagine taking a flush left hook off Colin fornicating Jones without gloves on, you'd learn your lesson pretty quick

Good stuff Colin….. hate big bullies

[maverick23]

I never particularly rated Zelfa Barrett when he was prospect of the year.

Also I’m not seeing Hopey Price make the top level like some on here do.

[mickey1975]

Didn't boxrec and Judas Pig star Dave Hunt chin Stretch as well?

[mickey1975]

I never particularly rated Zelfa Barrett when he was prospect of the year.

Also I’m not seeing Hopey Price make the top level like some on here do.

Me.

[JamesPhilips]

Didn't boxrec and Judas Pig star Dave Hunt chin Stretch as well?

Yes

[Bard of Boxrec]

Frankie Gavin.

People were still hyping him after he’d gone life and death with Curtis Woodhouse.

[margaret thatcher]

I never particularly rated Zelfa Barrett when he was prospect of the year.

Also I’m not seeing Hopey Price make the top level like some on here do.

agree on hopey

[maverick23]

I never particularly rated Zelfa Barrett when he was prospect of the year.

Also I’m not seeing Hopey Price make the top level like some on here do.

agree on hopey

He’s a tidy boxer but I worry his lack of punch power/strength will hold him back. The Italian last night was a good learning fight for him but he needs to sit down more on his punches.

I don’t know whether Dave Caldwell is the right trainer for him. Haven’t seen much improvement really.

[bennie]

he won the senior abas the year after that i think, maybe that convinced fwankie it was a fluke

I hadn't realised he'd done that....OK a bit more understandable but he was featured so much on TV (when it was rare) and so overhyped it was out of place. Even as a kid, who was naive about boxing, I'd look at him and think he looked pretty average. I liked Tony though I remember him wearing pink shorts and getting stopped by a yank journey man....as I remember he started complaining heartily even though he was gone.... might have slightly 'misremembered' the pink shorts in that fight...but he def wore them in some fight I'm certain.

Collins never won a senior ABA title. He turned pro with Warren at 17, which was stupidly young because all of a sudden he was a boy in a man's world and his brilliant amateur potential was lost in a maze of six-rounders and eight-rounders and in the gym Jimmy Batten was the same. He won a ton of schoolboy and junior titles and then turned pro with Terry Lawless at 18 and burned out quickly, although at least Batten won the British title (and a Lonsdale Belt outright).

[margaret thatcher]

his boxrec bio is wrong then https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/George_Collins

just had a look through the senior aba list and indeed his name wasnt there.....someone should change his fake news bio!

77-1 amateur record (67-0 at one point), KO'd in one round by male model Gary Stretch on tv programme.

1978-79 National schoolboy bantamweight champion
1980-82 National schoolboy jr-welterweight champion
1983 Junior ABA welterweight finalist (lost to Gary Stretch in final)
1984 senior ABA welterweight champion (beat Errol McDonald in final)

[bennie]

his boxrec bio is wrong then https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/George_Collins

just had a look through the senior aba list and indeed his name wasnt there.....someone should change his fake news bio!

77-1 amateur record (67-0 at one point), KO'd in one round by male model Gary Stretch on tv programme.

1978-79 National schoolboy bantamweight champion
1980-82 National schoolboy jr-welterweight champion
1983 Junior ABA welterweight finalist (lost to Gary Stretch in final)
1984 senior ABA welterweight champion (beat Errol McDonald in final)

Londoner Mickey Hughes won the ABA welterweight title in 1984, stopping Gloucester's Rob Thomas in the final at Wembley. Hughes then got the Olympic berth. Nottingham's Errol McDonald won the ABA welterweight title in 1985, outpointing Manchester's Ted Kershaw in the final. He never lost an amateur contest.
Stretch chinned Collins in the NABC'S and not in the junior ABA's.

[coghaugen11]

Wasn’t it shown (live?) on BBC ‘Record Breakers’, with Collins breaking a world record if he got to 68-0?

[JamesPhilips]

he won the senior abas the year after that i think, maybe that convinced fwankie it was a fluke

I hadn't realised he'd done that....OK a bit more understandable but he was featured so much on TV (when it was rare) and so overhyped it was out of place. Even as a kid, who was naive about boxing, I'd look at him and think he looked pretty average. I liked Tony though I remember him wearing pink shorts and getting stopped by a yank journey man....as I remember he started complaining heartily even though he was gone.... might have slightly 'misremembered' the pink shorts in that fight...but he def wore them in some fight I'm certain.

Collins never won a senior ABA title. He turned pro with Warren at 17, which was stupidly young because all of a sudden he was a boy in a man's world and his brilliant amateur potential was lost in a maze of six-rounders and eight-rounders and in the gym Jimmy Batten was the same. He won a ton of schoolboy and junior titles and then turned pro with Terry Lawless at 18 and burned out quickly, although at least Batten won the British title (and a Lonsdale Belt outright).

Thanks for that bennie that’s exactly what I thought, but online there were articles saying he won the senior ABAs in 1984!!!? People say he lied about his age, and was 2 years older. If so he’s a lowlife beating up kids as a near adult. Again this is unconfirmed but he def drove up to one of his junior titles with a tache and legs hairier than a gorilla..::

[JamesPhilips]

Frankie Gavin.

People were still hyping him after he’d gone life and death with Curtis Woodhouse.

Gavin was a beautiful boxer, but had that teenaged body. Never seemed to grow into a man. I thought that would hinder him as a pro. Could’ve done with a strength and nutrition coach. He was a little scummer by some accounts so never really liked him

[Coco]

I hadn't realised he'd done that....OK a bit more understandable but he was featured so much on TV (when it was rare) and so overhyped it was out of place. Even as a kid, who was naive about boxing, I'd look at him and think he looked pretty average. I liked Tony though I remember him wearing pink shorts and getting stopped by a yank journey man....as I remember he started complaining heartily even though he was gone.... might have slightly 'misremembered' the pink shorts in that fight...but he def wore them in some fight I'm certain.

Collins never won a senior ABA title. He turned pro with Warren at 17, which was stupidly young because all of a sudden he was a boy in a man's world and his brilliant amateur potential was lost in a maze of six-rounders and eight-rounders and in the gym Jimmy Batten was the same. He won a ton of schoolboy and junior titles and then turned pro with Terry Lawless at 18 and burned out quickly, although at least Batten won the British title (and a Lonsdale Belt outright).

Thanks for that bennie that’s exactly what I thought, but online there were articles saying he won the senior ABAs in 1984!!!? People say he lied about his age, and was 2 years older. If so he’s a lowlife beating up kids as a near adult. Again this is unconfirmed but he def drove up to one of his junior titles with a tache and legs hairier than a gorilla..::

George Collins birth was registered in the 4th quarter of 1967

[coghaugen11]

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[JamesPhilips]

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Lol that actors very good. What’s his name

[JamesPhilips]

Collins never won a senior ABA title. He turned pro with Warren at 17, which was stupidly young because all of a sudden he was a boy in a man's world and his brilliant amateur potential was lost in a maze of six-rounders and eight-rounders and in the gym Jimmy Batten was the same. He won a ton of schoolboy and junior titles and then turned pro with Terry Lawless at 18 and burned out quickly, although at least Batten won the British title (and a Lonsdale Belt outright).

Thanks for that bennie that’s exactly what I thought, but online there were articles saying he won the senior ABAs in 1984!!!? People say he lied about his age, and was 2 years older. If so he’s a lowlife beating up kids as a near adult. Again this is unconfirmed but he def drove up to one of his junior titles with a tache and legs hairier than a gorilla..::

George Collins birth was registered in the 4th quarter of 1967

Hmmmm says the paperwork. I mean many travellers don’t register births. I don’t know what the truth is. I’m just saying it’s one rumour