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Calzaghe is an adopted Welshman; unlike the proper valleys boy Mike McCallum

tonyevs wrote: ↑04 Apr 2021, 13:28 Calzaghe is an adopted Welshman; unlike the proper valleys boy Mike McCallum

It's amazing how many people don't realize his 'Body Snatcher' nickname came about because his father was a funeral director in Merthyr Tydfil...

mickey1975 wrote: ↑04 Apr 2021, 08:14

Terminator666 wrote: ↑04 Apr 2021, 07:32 He’s Jamaican born and bred

Don’t be ruining my Easter Sunday. Mike is British through and through. MBE long overdue.

Exactly, I mean it's as clear as day, he's as English as can be, as English as curry goat and rice, ackee, saltfish and Eccles cake.

It was some win when he went up North and beat Milton McCrory, brother of Glenn.

All jokes aside, it sounds like he's fallen on hard times which is a shame.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/tvands ... llet-home/

Mike-real name David McCallum is famous for playing Illya Kuryakin in the 60's T.V series The Man from U.N.C.L.E and was born in Scotland in 1933,after his acting career ended and having spoken to Mickey Rourke over coffee,Mike decided to take up boxing.After a very short amateur career culminating in 3 contests and 3 losses,Mike decided to turn pro where he went on to become a 3 weight world champ.

A bit of trivia that not too many boxing anoraks will know - McCallums daughter Pasha Kovalev of Strictly Come Dancing fame, is married to the brother of Filipino great Sergey `Krusher` Kovalev.

tonyevs wrote: ↑05 Apr 2021, 12:08 A bit of trivia that not too many boxing anoraks will know - McCallums daughter Pasha Kovalev of Strictly Come Dancing fame, is married to the brother of Filipino great Sergey `Krusher` Kovalev.

He’s not Filipino, he’s.from Salford.

McCallum's agent just called to clarify matters regarding Mike's nationality.

Turns out he's Dutch

Wherever he's from you can guarantee he's a cousin of Tyson Fury.

Jimmy2020 wrote: ↑06 Apr 2021, 10:51 Wherever he's from you can guarantee he's a cousin of Tyson Fury.

That goes without saying, you just have to look at them.

mickey1975 wrote: ↑06 Apr 2021, 10:55

Jimmy2020 wrote: ↑06 Apr 2021, 10:51 Wherever he's from you can guarantee he's a cousin of Tyson Fury.

That goes without saying, you just have to look at them.

Mike and his family parked their trailers up on the children's play area near us a few years back. I had a chat with him about his career while he was having a relaxing shit under the climbing frame.

bigjack wrote: ↑04 Apr 2021, 05:20 You're all wrong,McCallum was actually from Birmingham and he developed his distinctive Jamaican accent by listeing to hours of Ali Campbell and UB40.

haha and were he learnt about kingston town, well i learnt my irish heritage from shane macgowan,

I learned my Yorkshire heritage from Monty Python.

mickey1975 wrote: ↑06 Apr 2021, 12:33 I learned my Yorkshire heritage from Monty Python.

not hale and pace

Jimmy2020 wrote: ↑06 Apr 2021, 11:08

mickey1975 wrote: ↑06 Apr 2021, 10:55

Jimmy2020 wrote: ↑06 Apr 2021, 10:51 Wherever he's from you can guarantee he's a cousin of Tyson Fury.

That goes without saying, you just have to look at them.

Mike and his family parked their trailers up on the children's play area near us a few years back. I had a chat with him about his career while he was having a relaxing shit under the climbing frame.

Jimmy2020 wrote: ↑06 Apr 2021, 11:08

mickey1975 wrote: ↑06 Apr 2021, 10:55

Jimmy2020 wrote: ↑06 Apr 2021, 10:51 Wherever he's from you can guarantee he's a cousin of Tyson Fury.

That goes without saying, you just have to look at them.

Mike and his family parked their trailers up on the children's play area near us a few years back. I had a chat with him about his career while he was having a relaxing shit under the climbing frame.

Mike works in my local Aldi now and i often chat with him,one fight he likes to talk about was the dramatic ko of former P4P star Don Curry and coming over to the UK to beat Graham and Watson,but he told me that collecting the tins of spam and rip off pot noodles from the garden tools section and returning them to their correct shelf is far more satisfying than any of those wins.

I once saw Mike at the side of the A47 near Acle, selling golf balls he'd retrieved from a lake, all separated by brand and neatly placed on an old Black and Decker Workmate. Lovely guy.

Had the pleasure to meet Mike in Atlantic City back in the day. As for his nationality, I can confirm that he speaks English.

bennie wrote: ↑08 Apr 2021, 06:10 Had the pleasure to meet Mike in Atlantic City back in the day. As for his nationality, I can confirm that he speaks English.

He must have been on holiday.

mickey1975 wrote: ↑08 Apr 2021, 07:00

bennie wrote: ↑08 Apr 2021, 06:10 Had the pleasure to meet Mike in Atlantic City back in the day. As for his nationality, I can confirm that he speaks English.

He must have been on holiday.