Boxing stars and football team supporters

caster · Post by **caster** » 17 Feb 2007, 11:17

Has anybody else noticed that boxers seem to make it known their affiliation to their football teams much more than the used to? or have they always done this?

i.e Hatton and City, Khan and Bolton

m1kee50 · Post by **m1kee50** » 17 Feb 2007, 11:41

I think its always been about, but only a few fighters have ever done it big-style.

Its only cos hatton and Khan are public faces we actually know about it.

Plenty of East London fighters, Kevin Mitchell, Rocky Dean, are WHU fans, some fighters come into the ring to 'bubbles'. I dont really know about other teams/boxers

Lennox Lewis is a West Ham fan (like all the best people lol), but he never made a thing out of it in terms of his boxing

WolvesLad · Post by **WolvesLad** » 17 Feb 2007, 11:47

I know a boxer Lee Jones Jr who trains with Richie Woodall and he said that Richie advises them NOT to mix boxing with football as it does cause friction with fans. I know a few boxers who are football fans but choose not to wear their teams colours and come out to songs for this reason. In the midlands though we have Deano Harrison and Rob Kenney who come out to wolves songs wearing the gold n black, Wayne Elcock wears his blues shorts and Wayne Downing has had his shorts with 'baggies' on !

Andy Mac · Post by **Andy Mac** » 17 Feb 2007, 11:58

m1kee50 wrote:I think its always been about, but only a few fighters have ever done it big-style.

Its only cos hatton and Khan are public faces we actually know about it.

Plenty of East London fighters, Kevin Mitchell, Rocky Dean, are WHU fans, some fighters come into the ring to 'bubbles'. I dont really know about other teams/boxers

Lennox Lewis is a West Ham fan (like all the best people lol), but he never made a thing out of it in terms of his boxing

I would think you gotta be pretty brave or the eternal optimist to admit being a West Ham fan mikee. Hahaha only kidding

m1kee50 · Post by **m1kee50** » 17 Feb 2007, 12:02

Andy Mac wrote:
m1kee50 wrote:I think its always been about, but only a few fighters have ever done it big-style.

Its only cos hatton and Khan are public faces we actually know about it.

Plenty of East London fighters, Kevin Mitchell, Rocky Dean, are WHU fans, some fighters come into the ring to 'bubbles'. I dont really know about other teams/boxers

Lennox Lewis is a West Ham fan (like all the best people lol), but he never made a thing out of it in terms of his boxing
I would think you gotta be pretty brave or the eternal optimist to admit being a West Ham fan mikee. Hahaha only kidding

Bit of both mate tbh, no-one ever accused a WHU fan of not being brave (these colours dont run lol)

who do you follow mate?

hitman_hatton1 · Post by **hitman_hatton1** » 17 Feb 2007, 12:08

mercman wrote:Wasn't Michael Watson an Arsenal fan? I seem to remember one of his fights with Chris Eubank being billed as an Arsenal v Tottenham match-up with both fighters squaring up for pre-fight photos in football shirts. Probably it was just hype to sell tickets though.

yeah that's right.

watson wore arsenal colours in the 2nd fight and eubank wore spurs.

don't think eubank was a spurs fans though was he.

just did it to piss off watson i suppose.

Andy Mac · Post by **Andy Mac** » 17 Feb 2007, 12:14

m1kee50 wrote:
Andy Mac wrote:
m1kee50 wrote:I think its always been about, but only a few fighters have ever done it big-style.

Its only cos hatton and Khan are public faces we actually know about it.

Plenty of East London fighters, Kevin Mitchell, Rocky Dean, are WHU fans, some fighters come into the ring to 'bubbles'. I dont really know about other teams/boxers

Lennox Lewis is a West Ham fan (like all the best people lol), but he never made a thing out of it in terms of his boxing
I would think you gotta be pretty brave or the eternal optimist to admit being a West Ham fan mikee. Hahaha only kidding
Bit of both mate tbh, no-one ever accused a WHU fan of not being brave (these colours dont run lol)

who do you follow mate?

TBH I gave up with football when it became like medicine, ( taken 3 times daily ) So now I only follow England, but in the old days I was silly enough to follow Leeds.

WolvesLad · Post by **WolvesLad** » 17 Feb 2007, 15:05

Not many Leeds fans left now hey mate ! They all jumped ship !

rhino222 · Post by **rhino222** » 17 Feb 2007, 15:14

WolvesLad wrote:I know a boxer Lee Jones Jr who trains with Richie Woodall and he said that Richie advises them NOT to mix boxing with football as it does cause friction with fans. I know a few boxers who are football fans but choose not to wear their teams colours and come out to songs for this reason. In the midlands though we have Deano Harrison and Rob Kenney who come out to wolves songs wearing the gold n black, Wayne Elcock wears his blues shorts and Wayne Downing has had his shorts with 'baggies' on !

thats rich coming from woodhall, everyone knew he was a baggies fan when he was fighting....

boing boing... !!

SticknMove · Post by **SticknMove** » 17 Feb 2007, 15:19

WolvesLad wrote:I know a boxer Lee Jones Jr who trains with Richie Woodall and he said that Richie advises them NOT to mix boxing with football as it does cause friction with fans. I know a few boxers who are football fans but choose not to wear their teams colours and come out to songs for this reason. In the midlands though we have Deano Harrison and Rob Kenney who come out to wolves songs wearing the gold n black, Wayne Elcock wears his blues shorts and Wayne Downing has had his shorts with 'baggies' on !

Wise move by Richie. Nothing worse than seeing a bunch of football fans following a boxer because he wears the colours. They tend to know little about boxing or the guy they're supposed to be following and can wind the situation up outside the ring along old football hostilities.

kevin · Post by **kevin** » 17 Feb 2007, 15:46

Harrison alienated half of his supporters when he appeared in a Celtic shirt.

states · Post by **states** » 17 Feb 2007, 16:52

I seem to recall Juventus fan Calzaghe wearing a Newcastle shirt into the ring for the Pudwill farce, sorry 'fight'. I think everyone in the crowd figured it for a publicity stunt as well, because I'm sure he got some boo's.

glittermonkey · Post by **glittermonkey** » 17 Feb 2007, 17:02

As far as I'm aware it's not a recent thing. I think fighters will always want to tap into the big support of football fans local to where they live.

m1kee50, Steve Roberts also tapped into the hammer's fans support. He was a massive fan if I remember correctly. Plenty of boxers seem proud to follow West Ham. Don't know why though.

WolvesLad · Post by **WolvesLad** » 18 Feb 2007, 04:23

Its the old east end west Ham thing i suppose. Huge boxing area is the east end and most of em follow the hammers. I thought it was rich about Woodall cuz he made us all know he was a baggy !

yiddo14 · Post by **yiddo14** » 18 Feb 2007, 05:36

Lennox showing just how much he loves the beautiful game!!

I like West Ham,Arsenal and Crystal Palace....

Quite sickly.Not only does he 'support' 3 teams,but could he have chose a worse 3?!?!?!?!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1t7azvSW9M

m1kee50 · Post by **m1kee50** » 18 Feb 2007, 05:41

yiddo14 wrote:Lennox showing just how much he loves the beautiful game!!

I like West Ham,Arsenal and Crystal Palace....

Quite sickly.Not only does he 'support' 3 teams,but could he have chose a worse 3?!?!?!?!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1t7azvSW9M

lasagne

yiddo14 · Post by **yiddo14** » 18 Feb 2007, 05:49

Barry McGuigan
Chris Eubank
Peter Haymer
Mark Prince

Are all very intelligent people,who certainly know a thing or two when it comes to following a proper football team

m1kee50 · Post by **m1kee50** » 18 Feb 2007, 05:50

yiddo14 wrote:Barry McGuigan
Chris Eubank
Peter Haymer
Mark Prince

Are all very intelligent people,who certainly know a thing or two when it comes to following a proper football team

what, thpurth?

liamlion · Post by **liamlion** » 18 Feb 2007, 08:07

kevin wrote:Harrison alienated half of his supporters when he appeared in a Celtic shirt.

Its alleged Harrison was paraded at an Old Firm game and acknowledged the Celtic crowd but turned his back on the Rangers section.

johnswan1 · Post by **johnswan1** » 18 Feb 2007, 08:41

caster wrote:Has anybody else noticed that boxers seem to make it known their affiliation to their football teams much more than the used to? or have they always done this?

i.e Hatton and City, Khan and Bolton

Also Sprott came in with the Reading football colours last night.

TerribleTerry · Post by **TerribleTerry** » 18 Feb 2007, 09:11

kevin wrote:Harrison alienated half of his supporters when he appeared in a Celtic shirt.

As a celtic fan is he really gonna care though?

The hatred for the opposition runs deep.

WolvesLad · Post by **WolvesLad** » 18 Feb 2007, 09:31

Bit like us vs the tescos |!

yiddo14 · Post by **yiddo14** » 18 Feb 2007, 09:42

TerribleTerry wrote:
kevin wrote:Harrison alienated half of his supporters when he appeared in a Celtic shirt.
As a celtic fan is he really gonna care though?

The hatred for the opposition runs deep.

Exactly.
If it were me,and I was being paraded infront of a North London derby,I would have to do all I could to try and refrain myself from dropping my kecks and having a shit right in front of the scum!!!

E · Post by E » 18 Feb 2007, 09:52

Rob McCracken was a serious Birmingham City fan, apparently known not to mind a bit of tear up afterwards as I understand....

Anthony Farnell always used to come in a Man U shirt I think.

Any fighting chelsea boxers?

WolvesLad · Post by **WolvesLad** » 19 Feb 2007, 05:38

Not that im aware of mate ?!?!?!?!

Maybe some russian ones ?!?!?

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