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Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 11:17
by dookus
Glenn Catley was a security guard outside Bristol shops.

Tony Booth, according to the documentary, worked every job going in Hull...for about a week each

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 11:17
by banjo
Not a proper job obviously but wasn't Sonny Liston an enforcer for the Chicago Outfit?

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 11:19
by banjo
I think Paul Pender was a fireman too.

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 11:21
by dookus
banjo wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 11:17 Not a proper job obviously but wasn't Sonny Liston an enforcer for the Chicago Outfit?
Khurtsidze had a similar role for the Georgian mafia..

Also Mark Krence - the Boxing Butcher

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 11:22
by orbtastic
johnty1888 wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 11:07
ShadrachSimmo wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 07:49 Pretty sure Steve Robinson was on the dole just before become world champion.
I think he was a warehouseman somewhere
Next, wasn’t it?

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 11:24
by orbtastic
Google says Debenhams in Cardiff.

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 11:56
by dapug
Jim McDonnell- Camden Caretaker
Bernard Paul-Postman
Bob Foster-a Sherif

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 13:13
by bigjack
BJS - clown :lol:

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 13:41
by KW1
Michael sprott worked at kwik fit
I know few boxers used to do security work aswell

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 14:32
by fizzjambo
banjo wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 11:19 I think Paul Pender was a fireman too.
He was. Tony Dodson’s not long got in as well.

The shifts work well with training tbh

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 15:20
by My Name Is Earl
Jimmy Cable... painter & dec'.

Steve Cruz... plumbing apprentice.

There's a FLT driver who i can't recall.

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 15:22
by My Name Is Earl
fizzjambo wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 14:32
banjo wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 11:19 I think Paul Pender was a fireman too.
He was. Tony Dodson’s not long got in as well.

The shifts work well with training tbh
Nigel Travis was known as 'the fighting fireman' in his am days.

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 16:07
by Boxerbeetle
Didn’t RJJ once fight a police officer? No idea what his name was.

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 16:10
by margaret thatcher
I think RJ fought the police, the fire department, the milk men, the post office, and the plumber

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 16:54
by Wee Tommy
margaret thatcher wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 16:10 I think RJ fought the police, the fire department, the milk men, the post office, and the plumber
:lol:

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 17:44
by prewarboxing
Charlie Hardcastle of Barnsley knocked out Alf Wye of Hoxton in one round to win the vacant British Featherweight title on Monday, June 4th 1917. He travelled back to Barnsley, from London, on the train on the Tuesday afternoon, with his Lonsdale belt, and then went back down the pit for a full shift on the Wednesday morning.

Miles Templeton

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 17:44
by banjo
My Name Is Earl wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 15:22
fizzjambo wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 14:32
banjo wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 11:19 I think Paul Pender was a fireman too.
He was. Tony Dodson’s not long got in as well.

The shifts work well with training tbh
Nigel Travis was known as 'the fighting fireman' in his am days.
Does the fire brigade have a boxing team? You know like the Army, Navy, RAF have boxing teams?

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 18:31
by fizzjambo
banjo wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 17:44
My Name Is Earl wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 15:22
fizzjambo wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 14:32

He was. Tony Dodson’s not long got in as well.

The shifts work well with training tbh
Nigel Travis was known as 'the fighting fireman' in his am days.
Does the fire brigade have a boxing team? You know like the Army, Navy, RAF have boxing teams?
Not up here but I’m not sure about down south? We did an amateur event against the Police a few years back but it was very much a one off.

A lot of guys train though, both boxing and MMA. Lawrence Murphy (won and lost against Elcock) is in the job as well

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 21:01
by harrygreb
dave mccauley - chef

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 24 Aug 2020, 22:38
by bennie
Alberto Davila drove a beer truck.

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 25 Aug 2020, 01:51
by Verdi
Mark Potter as a landlord

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 25 Aug 2020, 03:27
by Noxy
John McDermott had an interesting job. French polisher or something.

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 25 Aug 2020, 04:57
by gregregegg
Jeff horn was teaching right up untill he got the manny Pac fight im pretty sure.

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 25 Aug 2020, 08:04
by mickey1975
Graham Fearn has a job at Nestle doing continental shifts. And trained in Leeds. And had young kids. He once boxed in London at late notice with no sleep and his wife going on at him.

Re: Boxers who work other jobs

Posted: 25 Aug 2020, 08:08
by MasterG
mercman wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 16:41 Richard Dunn was a scaffolder.
had a bad accident and got a decent pay out i believe, lives in Scarborough I think