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MightyWarrior wrote: ↑28 Aug 2021, 05:53 Fighting gypsy Bobby Frankham stopped in the 1st round back in the 80’s, reacted by attacking ref Richie Davis..not sure if Richie hit back. Bobby was Banned for life. Great photo

Frankham disgraced the long line of fighting Frankhams. He later apologised to Davies but his behaviour and the behaviour of his fans could not be undone by mere words. It was left to Pinewood Starr's Les Stevens to restore some faith in the relationship between the travelling community and the fight game.

bennie wrote: ↑28 Aug 2021, 07:25

MightyWarrior wrote: ↑28 Aug 2021, 05:53 Fighting gypsy Bobby Frankham stopped in the 1st round back in the 80’s, reacted by attacking ref Richie Davis..not sure if Richie hit back. Bobby was Banned for life. Great photo

Frankham disgraced the long line of fighting Frankhams. He later apologised to Davies but his behaviour and the behaviour of his fans could not be undone by mere words. It was left to Pinewood Starr's Les Stevens to restore some faith in the relationship between the travelling community and the fight game.

Why were the whole community blamed for one incident? Also anyone got footage? It was def showing on TV

Brian London was attacked or I should say approached in the ring after a fight and London kayoed him with the most perfect headbutt I have ever seen!!! Totally brutal Brian

Ray Price v Geoff Pegler



Their first fight was a real cracker but crowd fighting in the cheap seats cut this one short.

You don't get to see too much, but it did go off proper.

I remember Ernie Loveridge getting lots of abuse once, had a pint chucked over him too, ending up jumping out of the ring and laying one of them out, then continued the fight but didn't get the decision!
Him and his missus did make a sharp exit afterwards as they had a baying mob after them!
Proper good bloke was Ernie.

Foggy wrote: ↑28 Aug 2021, 02:12 The mother and the stiletto

Classic - good ol' mum !

Here's the Aussie one , the ref is Charkey Ramon good boxer in his time
https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/32032

oogiebe wrote: ↑27 Aug 2021, 22:44

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑27 Aug 2021, 22:42

Didn't someone throw a kick in that one?

Could say it all kicked off

Good one Ian

The cameraman was the attacker here

JamesPhilips wrote: ↑28 Aug 2021, 08:06

bennie wrote: ↑28 Aug 2021, 07:25

MightyWarrior wrote: ↑28 Aug 2021, 05:53 Fighting gypsy Bobby Frankham stopped in the 1st round back in the 80’s, reacted by attacking ref Richie Davis..not sure if Richie hit back. Bobby was Banned for life. Great photo

Frankham disgraced the long line of fighting Frankhams. He later apologised to Davies but his behaviour and the behaviour of his fans could not be undone by mere words. It was left to Pinewood Starr's Les Stevens to restore some faith in the relationship between the travelling community and the fight game.

Why were the whole community blamed for one incident? Also anyone got footage? It was def showing on TV

I don't mean the entire travelling community but some of those involved in boxing at the time because it was a bad one. I dug out the report in Boxing News. Frankham had walked over to his opponent (Dagenham's Billy Sim) before the start and poked his tongue out. He then refused to touch gloves. His antics continued in the opener as he boxed with his hands down and got caught by a good right. Frankham went down but was up quickly. Sim attacked hard and landed another right. Frankham went down again, this time falling into the ropes on his way down. Frankham jumped up but stumbled and made his way unsteadily to a neutral corner instead of acknowledging referee Richie Davies, who quite rightly waved it off.
What followed made the front page of BN under the headline 'Anarchy!' as Frankham twice punched Davies in the face and stormed over to Sim and landed a head shot. Trainer Darkie Smith (who later also attacked a referee) tried to restrain his fighter but Frankham proved too big and strong. Board Secretary John Morris climbed on to the ring apron but met with a mouthful of abuse. Frankham's supporters gatecrashed the ringside enclosure and scuffles broke out. By this time, Sim and his trainer had safely left the ring but Davies required a police escort. (The Board had been worried about the behaviour of Frankham's supporters in Frankham's three previous fights.)
Inevitably, Frankham was banned sine die at a Board meeting two weeks later.

Oh yeah, Darkie attacked the Ref during his son’s attempt to wrest the WBU crown from Ricky Hatton. I remember that.

He bottled saying anything about a scathing Super Grass Warren in the post interview.

The brawl in porthcrawl

This ref got it proper

i remember that, a lot of ppl were saying 'oh ref deserved it' but that vid doesnt show that red guy got dropped twice before getting that standing count, you have to be a delusional nutcase to think that is an early stoppage in the ams

Coco wrote: ↑29 Aug 2021, 06:13

He looks a little unhinged and claims he can't remember yet also claims he hit with an open glove.

Any footage of the actual post fight punch? The show was televised on BBC (Horace Notice Dean Waters). I remember watching

never trust a man with bushes for brows, its a reflection of their inner turmoil

JamesPhilips wrote: ↑29 Aug 2021, 07:14

Coco wrote: ↑29 Aug 2021, 06:13

He looks a little unhinged and claims he can't remember yet also claims he hit with an open glove.

Any footage of the actual post fight punch? The show was televised on BBC (Horace Notice Dean Waters). I remember watching

Was he a good Amateur? Looks like he could mix it from the interview he gave .

There was a bad in-the-ring fracas when
Luis Lazarate lost his IBF title to John Riel
Camisero when the fight got stopped, a few
of his football hooligan chums took it to the
new champions cornermen when they were celebrating and nobody was
going to throw them out... that was pretty bad to be honest.

JamesPhilips wrote: ↑29 Aug 2021, 07:14

Coco wrote: ↑29 Aug 2021, 06:13

He looks a little unhinged and claims he can't remember yet also claims he hit with an open glove.

Any footage of the actual post fight punch? The show was televised on BBC (Horace Notice Dean Waters). I remember watching

Got charged with attempted murder some years ago and Johnny Frankham got put inside for ripping off old people with the roofing scam

i remember that, and someone threw a chair in the ring that hit a guy on casi's team (sean gibbons) and injured his back

casimero had to hide under the ring

Old bones Ian wrote: ↑29 Aug 2021, 07:28

JamesPhilips wrote: ↑29 Aug 2021, 07:14

Coco wrote: ↑29 Aug 2021, 06:13

He looks a little unhinged and claims he can't remember yet also claims he hit with an open glove.

Any footage of the actual post fight punch? The show was televised on BBC (Horace Notice Dean Waters). I remember watching

Got charged with attempted murder some years ago and Johnny Frankham got put inside for ripping off old people with the roofing scam

lovely fellows

casimero v lazarte

btw that reminds me.....argentina's gangs have or until not too long ago did have major involvment in the boxing there. a lot of fighters would even wear gang colours (green was a big one) in the ring. madiana i think even fought with gang backing for a bit

pretty sure lazarte had a bunch of these gangster guys supporting him too..

Suppose the Harlem hammer deserves a mention.