Bobby Gunn

Captain Hook · Post by **Captain Hook** » 05 Jul 2007, 11:39

On the back of a pasting by Enzo and a one round TD, Bobby Gunn is fighting for the IBF Intercontinental title?

Go figure...

BigEars · Post by **BigEars** » 05 Jul 2007, 11:43

I'll have you know Bobby won a tough comeback fight since then , beating the 0-5 Elija Dickens . At least he did it in one round .

Gunn was a joke of an opponent for Enzo but he should have a win for Shelby Gross(Gunn put him down for 18 seconds in the first but the ref only got to 8/9 with his count) which I suppose would make his record look a little better .

In reality he should be a Light-Heavyweight or even a Super-Middleweight .

oliverfennell · Post by **oliverfennell** » 05 Jul 2007, 11:44

An IBF Intercontinental strap will give him a top 15 ranking, so when and if Maccarinelli unifies against Cunningham, a Gunn rematch will be ready and waiting.

Captain Hook · Post by **Captain Hook** » 05 Jul 2007, 11:44

Or a bin man :)

Chambers2 · Post by **Chambers2** » 05 Jul 2007, 11:45

BigEars wrote:I'll have you know Bobby won a tough comeback fight since then , beating the 0-5 Elija Dickens . At least he did it in one round .

Gunn was a joke of an opponent for Enzo but he should have a win for Shelby Gross(Gunn put him down for 18 seconds in the first but the ref only got to 8/9 with his count) which I suppose would make his record look a little better .

In reality he should be a Light-Heavyweight or even a Super-Middleweight .

I think I heard that he started his career at Welter

BigEars · Post by **BigEars** » 05 Jul 2007, 11:50

Chambers2 wrote:
BigEars wrote:I'll have you know Bobby won a tough comeback fight since then , beating the 0-5 Elija Dickens . At least he did it in one round .

Gunn was a joke of an opponent for Enzo but he should have a win for Shelby Gross(Gunn put him down for 18 seconds in the first but the ref only got to 8/9 with his count) which I suppose would make his record look a little better .

In reality he should be a Light-Heavyweight or even a Super-Middleweight .
I think I heard that he started his career at Welter

He started at Light-Middleweight , but that was 18 years ago and he was something like 15 . So it would make sense that he should be a good bit bigger now , but he's not a Cruiserweight . He came in at 181 lbs for a fight just over a year ago .

dookus · Post by **dookus** » 05 Jul 2007, 12:40

That's no way to talk about the most ferocious fighter since Jack Dempsey

Carbo · Post by **Carbo** » 05 Jul 2007, 13:29

Have any of you chaps read any of the reports on Gunn on David Payne's excellent blog?

http://boxingwriter.wordpress.com/2007/ ... -a-coward/

Read it. It really is...erm...enlightening stuff.

Carbo · Post by **Carbo** » 05 Jul 2007, 13:58

boxrec wrote:as itv's commentators said "he's fought bare knuckle before". Thats the toughness of gunn there. Come on gunn, show us that you can stand up to the enzo's of the world!

Fighting bare knuckles is no proof of toughness. These days it's just local hard-men and bouncers. It's far tougher to climb into the ring with somebody of Maccarinelli's power.

Give me Randal Tex Cobb any day. The pounding he took with gloves forced Howard Cosell out of the business and I'll take that over any of gypo fights or cobbles afairs.

I mean, seriously: has anybody ever watched bare knuckle stuff on youtube? Tough guys who hardly land a blow, over matched opponents, lads who basically quit when they start feeling the pain. I know it sounds like a card involving a hotly tipped British prospect; but really, it's not a demonstration of toughness unless we're talking of the top level pre WWII.

Chambers2 · Post by **Chambers2** » 05 Jul 2007, 13:59

Carbo wrote:Have any of you chaps read any of the reports on Gunn on David Payne's excellent blog?

http://boxingwriter.wordpress.com/2007/ ... -a-coward/

Read it. It really is...erm...enlightening stuff.

Sounds like Bobby Gunn is a pudendum in and out of the ring

el_grande_mauro_mina · Post by **el_grande_mauro_mina** » 05 Jul 2007, 14:20

oliverfennell wrote:An IBF Intercontinental strap will give him a top 15 ranking, so when and if Maccarinelli unifies against Cunningham, a Gunn rematch will be ready and waiting.

I wouldn't jest too soon about that... Didn't 'Allegedly' try to palm off the Calazghe - Mario Veit rematch on to anyone stupid enough to watch it!

Carbo · Post by **Carbo** » 05 Jul 2007, 14:38

Carlos-Wigan wrote:
oliverfennell wrote:An IBF Intercontinental strap will give him a top 15 ranking, so when and if Maccarinelli unifies against Cunningham, a Gunn rematch will be ready and waiting.
I wouldn't jest too soon about that... Didn't 'Allegedly' try to palm off the Calazghe - Mario Veit rematch on to anyone stupid enough to watch it!

That was fine. Veit had been on a fine winning streak, and while a fight against a marquee fighter was obviosuly preferrable, of all the mandaories, Veit was the most acceptable.

Actually, it turned out to be one of Calzaghe's better performance, and Veit had definitely improved.

Gunn, on the other hand, is a first class joke. Everybody knew beforehand, and the matchup was lamentable. I think even Doc Kearns, the maneger of the real Dempsey, would have baulked at such a rematch. And even a snake oil hawker would refuse to waste his time selling it.

DavidPayne · Post by **DavidPayne** » 05 Jul 2007, 16:39

Honestly, I've had emails and comments from all of them. Holcomb, Gunn.....

Quite entertaining.

Collins2000 · Post by **Collins2000** » 05 Jul 2007, 18:31

What exactly was it that Gunn did to make "Joe Mack" so upset?

Seems they just had a falling out over money.

Big deal.

And "Joe Mack" has no business trying to occupy the moral high ground. He was more than happy to be associated with "the joke that is Bobby Bum" to use his own ridiculous prose, when it was making him money.

What a ponse.

DavidPayne · Post by **DavidPayne** » 05 Jul 2007, 19:09

Gunn replied very strongly that it was, in fact Mac who'd tried to swindle money out of the Enzo deal.

http://boxingwriter.wordpress.com/2007/ ... king-gunn/

All good fun.

BigEars · Post by **BigEars** » 26 Aug 2007, 19:20

Bobby Gunn has continued on his path of destruction stopping Benito Fernandez(19-14-0) in 2 rounds .

Amazingly Bobby has dropped from WBC #14 to #32 after his controversial loss to Enzo . The referee stopped the fight and Bobby hadn't even gone down once !

Old bones Ian · Post by **Old bones Ian** » 28 Aug 2007, 04:47

Bobby Gunn may never win a proper world title, but he showed his class by donating a portion of his purse to Iran Barkley, he used to be employed by Barkley as a sparring partner. He is now helping out the former champ.

Axe · Post by **Axe** » 30 Aug 2007, 19:09

Old bones Ian wrote:Bobby Gunn may never win a proper world title, but he showed his class by donating a portion of his purse to Iran Barkley, he used to be employed by Barkley as a sparring partner. He is now helping out the former champ.

josh fg · Post by **josh fg** » 30 Aug 2007, 19:34

Don't the BBBoC have some kind of rules against overmatched fights I seem to remember them stoping audley fighting someone over that. Why didn't they step in for Gunn.

Can you imagen what David Haye would have done to him!

1southpaw · Post by **1southpaw** » 31 Aug 2007, 02:55

josh fg wrote:Don't the BBBoC have some kind of rules against overmatched fights I seem to remember them stoping audley fighting someone over that. Why didn't they step in for Gunn.

Can you imagen what David Haye would have done to him!

i think the board should have not let most of fraudly,s contests go

DavidPayne · Post by **DavidPayne** » 31 Aug 2007, 04:01

Would the BBBofC be able to turn down a fighter ranked by the sanctioning body to which he's meant to challenge, ridiculous though it was Gunn was, unsuprisingly, an entry at #15 in the WBO.

Not sure.

john2345 · Post by **john2345** » 31 Aug 2007, 10:04

You may have seen Gunn versus Shelby Gross on this link (it was on another part of the Boxrec forum)

http://www.fightbeat.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19439

If you haven't seen it it's worth watching once the fight actually starts...the intros are a bit long but you can probably skip ahead to the actual fight.

It's just beyond belief that a few fights later he wasa in against Enzo.

J

Old bones Ian · Post by **Old bones Ian** » 31 Aug 2007, 10:14

well i won enough money on the 1st round KO by Macca, so thank god for the WBO shite rankings

DavidPayne · Post by **DavidPayne** » 31 Aug 2007, 11:04

Seriously, those close to Gunn are adamant Tarver is in talks to fce him.

Stand and Deliver.

The Blade · Post by **The Blade** » 02 Sep 2007, 10:30

DavidPayne wrote:Seriously, those close to Gunn are adamant Tarver is in talks to fce him.

Stand and Deliver.

Gunn has given some of his last purse to Iran Barkley, who has fallen on bad times. Maybe he isn't exactly Muhammed Ali, but he is a good man.