BoxRec

Jiro Watanabe is a Yakuza

boxingknockout wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 14:06 Gary Stretch is a C list actor

I really enjoyed Dead Mans Shoes. Good film.

mimmy123 wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 15:29 Gary Stretch is a shocking actor. Luckily the movies he stars in only cost around $25 to make. As a boxer he was a domestic level boxer only at light middleweight and how he got a shot at Chris Eubank for the WBO middleweight title is beyond me.

He was a good looking lad who was in the tabloids a fair amount. They wanted a quick, easy, defense after the Sherry nonsense & before the Watson fight.

Taansend wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 17:32

mimmy123 wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 15:29 Gary Stretch is a shocking actor. Luckily the movies he stars in only cost around $25 to make. As a boxer he was a domestic level boxer only at light middleweight and how he got a shot at Chris Eubank for the WBO middleweight title is beyond me.

He was a good looking lad who was in the tabloids a fair amount. They wanted a quick, easy, defense after the Sherry nonsense & before the Watson fight.

I agree, if Stretch was a run of the mill 'looking' boxer he wouldnt have got where he is i doubt. As a younger man he was quite pretty, my wife liked him with his combed back hair. And as a middle aged bloke he has the appeal to be a bad guy actor, but his acting is so poor he can only land z movies like Sharknado. It is possibly his best acting movie was Dead Mans Shoes, but thats the only one ive seen in full so I cant say it was for sure.

IMDB movie ratings have his movies rated quite poorly also.

mimmy123 wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 09:34 Mr Magri here has recently lost his cleaning job due to arthritis.

Oh that's sad to hear. Last I'd heard he was doing demolition work.

IT was in one of the tabloids about Magri, it was a good while back

mimmy123 wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 15:29 Gary Stretch is a shocking actor. Luckily the movies he stars in only cost around $25 to make. As a boxer he was a domestic level boxer only at light middleweight and how he got a shot at Chris Eubank for the WBO middleweight title is beyond me.

had me laughing!

I think people are forgetting a few facts about Stretch when saying he would never had got so far without his looks.

Number 1: Even though Gary kod amateur star George Collins in 1 round in Collins’ last fight before going pro, it was Collins who received all the publicity and hype.

Number 2: Stretch was not high profile before the Eubank fight. He hadn’t fought at middleweight as I remember. When he was matched with Eubank, the press pushed his looks, and the fight got loads of publicity including I think Wogan?!? (Not sure)

Number 3: Stretch was no bum - apart from a cuts loss he had not been beaten and was ambitious. A lot better than many of Eubank’s defences. (He did however get stopped in a round by David Hunt...)

Number 4: Gary was leading on points at the time of the stoppage and was boxing well.

Number 5: Stretch used to fluck an ageing Raquel Welch.

mimmy123 wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 15:41

banjo wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 15:38

mimmy123 wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 15:29 Gary Stretch is a shocking actor. Luckily the movies he stars in only cost around $25 to make. As a boxer he was a domestic level boxer only at light middleweight and how he got a shot at Chris Eubank for the WBO middleweight title is beyond me.

You could say that about quite a few of Eubanks opponents.

Indeed, I have no argument about that point.

The WBO in the 90's was largely sustained by Brits who weren't good enough to fight for/win genuine world titles.

boxingknockout wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 19:11

mimmy123 wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 15:29 Gary Stretch is a shocking actor. Luckily the movies he stars in only cost around $25 to make. As a boxer he was a domestic level boxer only at light middleweight and how he got a shot at Chris Eubank for the WBO middleweight title is beyond me.

Number 2: Stretch was not high profile before the Eubank fight. He hadn’t fought at middleweight as I remember. When he was matched with Eubank, the press pushed his looks, and the fight got loads of publicity including I think Wogan?!? (Not sure)

I think that pretty much proves the point. If he hadn't have been a boxer/model he wouldn't have been on Wogan or all the other attention.

No one is saying he was crap, just pointing out that he was a British title level fighter at Light Middle. He got the shot at Eubank because of the marketing aspect. If he had looked like Ricky Hatton I doubt very much if he would have fought for the Middleweight title. He'd had one fight in the previous 14 months & that was against an Argie who'd won 36 of his 99 fights.

As for Raquel Welch, he says it wasn't true.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/ ... tmonthly12

Enzo maccranelli runs the kitchen at a motor way service station

Alba wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 20:12 Enzo maccranelli runs the kitchen at a motor way service station

Chippo wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 17:02 Ernie Shavers was a bouncer at Yates' Wine Lodge in Liverpool.

How long ago was this?
Last time I met Ernie Shavers he was doing motivational speaking as a Christian preacher.

Taansend wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 20:03

boxingknockout wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 19:11

mimmy123 wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 15:29 Gary Stretch is a shocking actor. Luckily the movies he stars in only cost around $25 to make. As a boxer he was a domestic level boxer only at light middleweight and how he got a shot at Chris Eubank for the WBO middleweight title is beyond me.

Number 2: Stretch was not high profile before the Eubank fight. He hadn’t fought at middleweight as I remember. When he was matched with Eubank, the press pushed his looks, and the fight got loads of publicity including I think Wogan?!? (Not sure)

I think that pretty much proves the point. If he hadn't have been a boxer/model he wouldn't have been on Wogan or all the other attention.

No one is saying he was crap, just pointing out that he was a British title level fighter at Light Middle. He got the shot at Eubank because of the marketing aspect. If he had looked like Ricky Hatton I doubt very much if he would have fought for the Middleweight title. He'd had one fight in the previous 14 months & that was against an Argie who'd won 36 of his 99 fights.

As for Raquel Welch, he says it wasn't true.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/ ... tmonthly12

Some good points here. However I take issue with the bolded text. Hatton is considered quite a looker in his part of Manchester..... Anthony Farnell is considered something of a supermodel also.

boxingknockout wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 20:36

Taansend wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 20:03

boxingknockout wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 19:11

Number 2: Stretch was not high profile before the Eubank fight. He hadn’t fought at middleweight as I remember. When he was matched with Eubank, the press pushed his looks, and the fight got loads of publicity including I think Wogan?!? (Not sure)

I think that pretty much proves the point. If he hadn't have been a boxer/model he wouldn't have been on Wogan or all the other attention.

No one is saying he was crap, just pointing out that he was a British title level fighter at Light Middle. He got the shot at Eubank because of the marketing aspect. If he had looked like Ricky Hatton I doubt very much if he would have fought for the Middleweight title. He'd had one fight in the previous 14 months & that was against an Argie who'd won 36 of his 99 fights.

As for Raquel Welch, he says it wasn't true.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/ ... tmonthly12

Some good points here. However I take issue with the bolded text. Hatton is considered quite a looker in his part of Manchester..... Anthony Farnell is considered something of a supermodel also.

David Tua runs a health and fitness gym in South Auckland.
He also does community work teaching at risk youth boxing.
Met him eariler this year, the dude is the size of a small bus!

Darrin Van Horn is now a police officer.

mimmy123 wrote: ↑30 Dec 2017, 05:20 Darrin Van Horn is now a police officer.

I thought he was Vanilla Ice

Scott Welch ran a nursing home but also appeared on tv in a restoration programme where he restored Thorington Gate Lodge that had been derelict for over 20 years.

Theres a few ex boxers in the bailiff industry.
Paul butlin is one.

Nicky Piper now works for The City Hospice in Cardiff.

https://www.cityhospice.org.uk/News/our ... ty-hospice

Not sure his capacity is however.

Vitali Klitschko is mayor of Kiev.... I think Wladimir is studying acting.

bigjack wrote: ↑30 Dec 2017, 05:32

mimmy123 wrote: ↑30 Dec 2017, 05:20 Darrin Van Horn is now a police officer.

I thought he was Vanilla Ice

He was Iced Iced Baby when he met Barkley.

Stuarty30 wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 09:37 John Simpson was working in Aldi in Greenock but unsure if he still is....

Excellent domestic boxer was Simpson. He was certainly on the wrong end of a few bad decisions in my opinion. I wonder is he involved in boxing at all any more?

banjo wrote: ↑30 Dec 2017, 06:45

bigjack wrote: ↑30 Dec 2017, 05:32

mimmy123 wrote: ↑30 Dec 2017, 05:20 Darrin Van Horn is now a police officer.

I thought he was Vanilla Ice

He was Iced Iced Baby when he met Barkley.

He was indeed,showed a great chin though by the way Vanilla Ice is Robert Van Winkle,easy to get them mixed up at my age

Taansend wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 20:39

boxingknockout wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 20:36

Taansend wrote: ↑29 Dec 2017, 20:03

I think that pretty much proves the point. If he hadn't have been a boxer/model he wouldn't have been on Wogan or all the other attention.

No one is saying he was crap, just pointing out that he was a British title level fighter at Light Middle. He got the shot at Eubank because of the marketing aspect. If he had looked like Ricky Hatton I doubt very much if he would have fought for the Middleweight title. He'd had one fight in the previous 14 months & that was against an Argie who'd won 36 of his 99 fights.

As for Raquel Welch, he says it wasn't true.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/ ... tmonthly12

Some good points here. However I take issue with the bolded text. Hatton is considered quite a looker in his part of Manchester..... Anthony Farnell is considered something of a supermodel also.

True this