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hurlock wrote:Real money!!!
Quality gangster flick!!
Kaylor seemed like he thought it was real life!

Jimmy flint was good, I think he does acting now??
Better then stretchy!!

I can remember the documtary and Jimmy Flint really did seem to have an edge to him; he was only little but he had a wicked look in his eye, looked a right handful.

palooka wrote:

hurlock wrote:Real money!!!
Quality gangster flick!!
Kaylor seemed like he thought it was real life!

Jimmy flint was good, I think he does acting now??
Better then stretchy!!

I can remember the documtary and Jimmy Flint really did seem to have an edge to him; he was only little but he had a wicked look in his eye, looked a right handful.

i've got the dvd it's a double dvd one is called fighters and the other is called real money you can get it on amazon robbo is on it and play's the part of a fighter that wants to turn pro to earn a living ?

good luck to steve in his cabby future

Darcy Delaney wrote:

palooka wrote:

hurlock wrote:Real money!!!
Quality gangster flick!!
Kaylor seemed like he thought it was real life!

Jimmy flint was good, I think he does acting now??
Better then stretchy!!

I can remember the documtary and Jimmy Flint really did seem to have an edge to him; he was only little but he had a wicked look in his eye, looked a right handful.

i've got the dvd it's a double dvd one is called fighters and the other is called real money you can get it on amazon robbo is on it and play's the part of a fighter that wants to turn pro to earn a living ?

Is that Patsy and Shaun Gray on the exercise bikes in the gym Darcy? They both look knackered.

That film must be really touching for Bradley stone's family as i seem to remember him talking about boxing giving him oppurtunities to be some1 etc.

manno wrote:That film must be really touching for Bradley stone's family as i seem to remember him talking about boxing giving him oppurtunities to be some1 etc.

I can remember an interview with Jason Rowland in Boxing News years ago and after the Stone v Wenton bout. He said that he and Bradley were very determined to do well and make something of themselves and move away from the area, (Custom House/Canning Town) for their families to have a better life; I remember that he said that others around were talented but more interested in being on the town, drinking and drugging etc.

@ palooka it might well be mate i've not seen it for a while, i'm in it i'll have you know lol i was about 11 there was loads of people from the manor on it

Did Darcy box for West Ham? Jnr or Snr?

Bleak wrote:Did Darcy box for West Ham? Jnr or Snr?

i only had a few at jnr level then came away from amatuer boxing when my brother garry turned pro (i followed him to the matchroom)then when i was around 18 i started training up the peacock with micky steeds and decided to have a few unlicenced fights up the circus tavern until micky turnrd pro i aint bothered with it since

Darcy was you a big heavyweight?? I know there are a lot of delaneys & one was a lump!!

Darcy Delaney wrote:

Bleak wrote:Did Darcy box for West Ham? Jnr or Snr?

i only had a few at jnr level then came away from amatuer boxing when my brother garry turned pro (i followed him to the matchroom)then when i was around 18 i started training up the peacock with micky steeds and decided to have a few unlicenced fights up the circus tavern until micky turnrd pro i aint bothered with it since

Cheers Pal just being nosey really, bet it was a great time to be around West Ham though

Bleak wrote:

Darcy Delaney wrote:

Bleak wrote:Did Darcy box for West Ham? Jnr or Snr?

i only had a few at jnr level then came away from amatuer boxing when my brother garry turned pro (i followed him to the matchroom)then when i was around 18 i started training up the peacock with micky steeds and decided to have a few unlicenced fights up the circus tavern until micky turnrd pro i aint bothered with it since

Cheers Pal just being nosey really, bet it was a great time to be around West Ham though

yeah it was mate some good fighters around the gym back then, i was lucky to be there

billy bessey wrote:West ham was a top club when I was a kid is it still strong now? Do they have many fighters
Now they used to have loads

i think so mate i heard they are still getting lots of people in through the doors ?

stevieb_8006 wrote:my mates bro fought him, he had skills. always thought he couldve done more. but then, all that lot couldve couldnt they? 1 of the biggest crimes in UK boxing that they never faced off.

Steve Roberts/Takaloo/Arnie Farnell/Richard Williams/Wayne Alexander...heck u could even throw in Lockett and Ryan Rhodes.

They couldve entertained us for 3 years. Damn u IBO/WBU/WBF!!!!!!!

it's weird that with the light welters, the top brits fought their arses off vs each other for these sort of titles - dunne, ayers, rigby, schwer.

whereas at light middle, we did get a great KO (alexander-takaloo) and williams did take on sergio martinez, and alexander gave it a good go vs harry simon before succumbing, etc. but on the whole the top brits all took their own little route.

i think jamie moore, the 154 successor to these guys, sort of paid for all the fights that didn't happen, vs the likes of michael jones (3rd fight), matthew macklin and ryan rhodes, 3 true classics.

hurlock wrote:Real money!!!
Quality gangster flick!!
Kaylor seemed like he thought it was real life!

Jimmy flint was good, I think he does acting now??
Better then stretchy!!

yeah it's a good film, "real money" and the double dvd fighters / real money is worth a look.

roberts played a guy out of prison wanting to turn pro but lured into the "real money" of drug dealing by dean hollington, causing tenstion between trainer jimmy tibbs and gangster jimmy flint, leading to a gang war/shooting.

tibbs and flint were very impressive, in improvised roles. flint, oddly, was more frightening in the docu "fighters"

there was a funny scene when kaylor et al have robbed some boxes of booze and hide out at roberts' place, getting pissed & shitting up roberts who's worried about going back to prison.

shame ron peck and the west ham fighters couldn't make a 3rd film, an ambitious project that was i believe snuffed out by the trendy gangster fad of cheeky/lovable cockneys caricatures in the abysmal films of the turd guy ritchie.

hurlock wrote:Darcy was you a big heavyweight?? I know there are a lot of delaneys & one was a lump!!

I think Darcy was the young lad who was bigger and taller than his brothers; he used to bring the belts into the ring when they boxed at York Hall; looked very young but mean (ha ha )

palooka wrote:

hurlock wrote:Darcy was you a big heavyweight?? I know there are a lot of delaneys & one was a lump!!

I think Darcy was the young lad who was bigger and taller than his brothers; he used to bring the belts into the ring when they boxed at York Hall; looked very young but mean (ha ha )

Dont forget Eddie Hearn was with me carrying a belt lol i'm not mean mate just pretend to be

What's happend to steeds???

I thought cruiser he'd of done big things as he looked so natural & comftable at heavy despite being small.i remember him looking class against Luke simpkin in which wasn't an easy task at the time. I saw Micky fight at cruiser & he looked weak & sh1t! I put it down to maybe losing the weight poorly.i rated Mickey he could fight

hurlock wrote:What's happend to steeds???

I thought cruiser he'd of done big things as he looked so natural & comftable at heavy despite being small.i remember him looking class against Luke simpkin in which wasn't an easy task at the time. I saw Micky fight at cruiser & he looked weak & sh1t! I put it down to maybe losing the weight poorly.i rated Mickey he could fight

he's back in training with dominic negus's old trainer lenny butcher and has a deal sorted he's just got to get his medicals done and he'll be ready to go hopfully around feb time

stevieb_8006 wrote:my mates bro fought him, he had skills. always thought he couldve done more. but then, all that lot couldve couldnt they? 1 of the biggest crimes in UK boxing that they never faced off.

Steve Roberts/Takaloo/Arnie Farnell/Richard Williams/Wayne Alexander...heck u could even throw in Lockett and Ryan Rhodes.

They couldve entertained us for 3 years. Damn u IBO/WBU/WBF!!!!!!!

Absolutely, that whole "episode" was a prime example of boxing shooting itself in the foot. Utter shambles that set boxing back years.

They could have filled stadiums with some of those fights, if they were properly built up.

Khaosai-Galaxy wrote:

stevieb_8006 wrote:my mates bro fought him, he had skills. always thought he couldve done more. but then, all that lot couldve couldnt they? 1 of the biggest crimes in UK boxing that they never faced off.

Steve Roberts/Takaloo/Arnie Farnell/Richard Williams/Wayne Alexander...heck u could even throw in Lockett and Ryan Rhodes.

They couldve entertained us for 3 years. Damn u IBO/WBU/WBF!!!!!!!

Absolutely, that whole "episode" was a prime example of boxing shooting itself in the foot. Utter shambles that set boxing back years.

They could have filled stadiums with some of those fights, if they were properly built up.

Which stadiums were'nt properly built?

mickey1975 wrote:

Khaosai-Galaxy wrote:

stevieb_8006 wrote:my mates bro fought him, he had skills. always thought he couldve done more. but then, all that lot couldve couldnt they? 1 of the biggest crimes in UK boxing that they never faced off.

Steve Roberts/Takaloo/Arnie Farnell/Richard Williams/Wayne Alexander...heck u could even throw in Lockett and Ryan Rhodes.

They couldve entertained us for 3 years. Damn u IBO/WBU/WBF!!!!!!!

Absolutely, that whole "episode" was a prime example of boxing shooting itself in the foot. Utter shambles that set boxing back years.

They could have filled stadiums with some of those fights, if they were properly built up.

Which stadiums were'nt properly built?

If the fights were properly built up, as in well promoted.

I was not advocating them fighting in a building site.

I know. And judging by your usual 'humour', i thought you would have done, too.

mickey1975 wrote:I know. And judging by your usual 'humour', i thought you would have done, too.

The things ive seen on building sites....

ever seen a fight on a sight? i know i couldve battered some foreman with a spade for what he said to me many years ago - i can see the headlines now "Foreman knocked out in one by Painter" - he did annoy me