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Effing hell! You've got the bit between your teeth.

Palooka.

Its been something on my agenda for many years, getting all these fights onto dvd before I die. (Hopefully not quite yet) Growing up I sat in front of the tv for boxing, thats when boxing was boxing, I would get up all hours of the night to watch and tape fights. As you will see I have many thousand good fights that blokes around my age (46) will appreciate. Back in the late 80's to 90's up north we have boxing action that was not shown down South, such as the Billy Hardy v Ronnie Carroll fight in Tape 3.

I just want to get them all onto dvd. I just hope Youtube allow me enough data space to get them all up over 250 tapes worth.

The upcoming tape I have when Bruno fought Tyson (1) there was a good 1 hour documentary beforehand which you will later see it was really good. I have a little on Paul Sykes too. Some good action will be upcoming to a tv near you soon!

enjoying them so far....tillis v mason just watched.

i'm 45 in june, so the same vintage as you....and i used to buy vhs tapes from adverts in the back of boxing news and the like...i think it was 25 quid for 4 hour vhs tapes.
long story short...living with a lass in her dads house in early 90s and i had to store around 130 vhs tapes in their garage, which was secure...but..you guessed it...it got broken into and all were taken...local kids i suspected.
anyway...likes of orlando canizales and khasio galaxy i was well into then...used to be on itv in middle of the night with gary newbond presenting if i remember.
used to like the tv channel 'screensport' which was on in earliest days of sky tv...they had a 'pro-box' show which had really early eubank and herbie hide fights on.....barry mcguigan was a great commentator then, he had jim macdonnell beside him too, and i read there was tension between them still then.

Mimmy and Doug, I'm the same vintage (45) and I used to buy the videos out of boxing news as well - it's where I first saw Sanchez and Arguello, I loved that time of my life - I had an oil painting of Sal Sanchez done by an artist that advertised in boxing news and had a full on perm - I took a photo of Sanchez into the hairdressers, it was cool having a hero non of mates had heard of.

I used to tape Trans World Sport which sometimes had fights on, the Galaxy brothers would fight at a crocodile farm and other crazy places.

Doug we didnt have 'Probox' as my tv station was TyneTees but we had 'Fightnight' so there are lots of local Northern boxers to come, including john Westgarth, Paul Lister etc. Stay tooned

I just hopew i have enought data space on youtube, however if not I will have to open another channel.

some of glenn mccrorys early fights were exciting...i remember casual sports fans would talk about his fights a lot

Boxing Tape 4 is now live

Don't burn out Mimmy

im fine palooka boxing tape 2 will be up tomorrow then we have a big Bruno v Tyson tape with some Camacho v Mancini and Gary Jacobs.

palooka wrote:Don't burn out Mimmy

what he said ^^

palooka.....hold everything !!.....your signature...i just noticed.... "i'm a boy"...the who !!.....you a fan brother ??

doug.ie wrote:

palooka wrote:Don't burn out Mimmy

what he said ^^

palooka.....hold everything !!.....your signature...i just noticed.... "i'm a boy"...the who !!.....you a fan brother ??

I do like a few of there's, I got into them through my son - I've always been into northern soul b it my wife and son are rockers, the Who rock alright

(Bits and Pieces Scrapbook is my favourite thread on here thank you)

palooka wrote:

doug.ie wrote:

palooka wrote:Don't burn out Mimmy

what he said ^^

palooka.....hold everything !!.....your signature...i just noticed.... "i'm a boy"...the who !!.....you a fan brother ??

I do like a few of there's, I got into them through my son - I've always been into northern soul b it my wife and son are rockers, the Who rock alright

(Bits and Pieces Scrapbook is my favourite thread on here thank you)

my other main love in life...the who...seen them 16 times....i seen the reference and wondered :)

sorry for going off topic there mimmy

Mimmy is cool, Doug - he's a good egg.

lol no worries just watching Gary Jacobs v George Collins.

Jacobs went on to fight James Mcgirt (which I have) but was hopelessly out classed 8 rounds to 2.

Boxing Tape 2 will be up on youtube later this afternoon

Steve McCrory v Juan Muriel
Steve Boyle v Joey Jacobs
Jim McDonnell v Brian mitchell
Thomas Hearns v James Kinchen
Sugar Ray Leonard v Donny Lalonde
Michael Olijade v Troy Watson
Herol Graham v Johnny Melfah
Michael Nunn v Juan Roldan

Have you got Wally Swift Jnr v Tony Collins? That was some fight.

There are some right crackers you have there Mimmy - here you go -

Wally Swift Jr, I remember that name Palooka, im sure hes on my tapes somewhere.

Im just converting another tape with some good fights on it however very badly damaged with mould on the tape. So the quality is not going to be tiptop. We will give it a go though.

loved wally swift jr.
his dad was a good un too.

doug.ie wrote:loved wally swift jr.
his dad was a good un too.

I've never seen Wally Snr box but remember watching Jnr box Collins and I was so impressed with how Wally carried himself and I thought his name just suited him - he seemed a throwback - I named my son after him.

Boxing Tape 2 should be up any time now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVSuoxS8ob8

Boxing Tape 5 will be up around 9pm this evening

Big Fight Special 40 minute preview
Mike Tyson v Frank Bruno (1)
Roberto Duran v Iran Barkley
Hector Camacho v Ray Mancini
Tony Lopez v Rocky Lockridge
Nigel Benn v Mbayo Wa Mbayo
Gary Mason v Terry Armstrong
Gary Jacobs v George Collins

(The Jacobs v Collins fight just ends at the bell before the decision)

Duran v Barkley and Lockridge v Lopez are fantastic bouts.

Boxing Tape 5 should be up in around 30 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5L-Jbn ... e=youtu.be

Its a bit dodgy the viewing but its watchable, all that mould has buggered up the quality.

Im just about to watch Glenn McCrory v Patrick Lalumba

I just cant ge tover how lucky glenn was to get that fight.

I should get 1 up tomorrow as im now on late shifts at work for 4 days but this will be up sometime tommorrow morning

Boxing Tape 6

Denis Andries v Tony Wilson
Simon Brown v Jorge Maysonet
John Mugabi v Kenny Stiles
Duke McKenzie v Tony De Luca
Tony Wilson v Tom Collins
Donnie Hood v John Vasquez
Joe Kelly v Marvin Stone
Marc Delfosse v Pat Barrett
Billy Hardy v Hosay Sottoe
Juan Estrada v Jesus Poll
Paul Hodkinson v Raymond Armand

Tape 6 should be live in around 1 hour.

ill try to get Tape 7 up but im at work this afternoon so I will proberly only get 1 a day up in the next 4 days.

Im finding a few tapes now with mould on as they were on the top of a box and the quality may not be brilliant but give them a go as there are some great fights coming up.

Tape 7

Jeff Fenech v Marcos Villasana
Sammy Reeson v Carlos DeLeon
Gary Stretch v Ernesto Sena
Maurico Aceves v Amancio Castra
Genaro Leon v Danny Garcia
Glenn McCrory v Patrick Lalumba
John John Molina v Juan Laporte
Julio Gervalgio v Kenny Mitchell
Duke McKenzie v Dave McCauley