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Haha, I was too cute cause I didn't get hit much!

Actually I took that name after a conversation with Terry Toole, I was trying to haggle more money out of him for Yifru Retta, I said I wanted better money cause this fella is a puncher and he said this kid will never knock you out, your far too cute for that

You couldn't make it through the fights I did against the quality of opposition without being defensively 'cute'

Scrap wrote:tonyevs, never knew that please tell us more, why and who thanks

His only daughter Joan had married an older aristocrat.
And killed him. Decapitating him I believe.
She was sent to a mental institution. And this pretty much sent Gene into alcoholism, very sad story. :(
Heres about the only web info I could find.


`The owner of a campground outside Marseille was surprised to see an emaciated woman, sunburned and unkempt, stagger toward him from a stand of fir trees. Joan Tunney Wilkinson, 30, daughter of former Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney, identified herself and asked for a drink of water, thereby ending a massive two-month-long search that began after she left her husband and two small daughters in Norway. According to Paris' France-Soir, the couple had quarrelled, then separated to cool off, after agreeing to meet in Hamburg 15 days later. Apparently suffering from amnesia, the attractive brunette never kept the date; instead, she wandered south through Europe—hitching rides, sleeping in fields, eating what she could find. She is now recuperating at Marseille's Sainte Marguerite Hospital.`

I think this was but the beginning of the end... :(

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Colin McMillan was accepted for Law to Oxford 3 As but chose Pro Boxing

Scrap wrote:Colin McMillan was accepted for Law to Oxford 3 As but chose Pro Boxing

Dunno about that one mate. Colin is a clever fellar but being accepted to do law at Oxford (not Brookes) sounds like a stretch to me..

TerribleTerry wrote:

Scrap wrote:Colin McMillan was accepted for Law to Oxford 3 As but chose Pro Boxing

Dunno about that one mate. Colin is a clever fellar but being accepted to do law at Oxford (not Brookes) sounds like a stretch to me..

Why? It's not impossible that a black man was accepted to Oxford, you know...

Southpaw Stylist wrote:

TerribleTerry wrote:

Scrap wrote:Colin McMillan was accepted for Law to Oxford 3 As but chose Pro Boxing

Dunno about that one mate. Colin is a clever fellar but being accepted to do law at Oxford (not Brookes) sounds like a stretch to me..

Why? It's not impossible that a black man was accepted to Oxford, you know...

Very true, its not impossible for a black man to get accepted to Oxford, but for one with 'only' 7 GCSEs/O levels to get accepted would be a near miracle mate 8)

TerribleTerry wrote:

Southpaw Stylist wrote:

TerribleTerry wrote: Dunno about that one mate. Colin is a clever fellar but being accepted to do law at Oxford (not Brookes) sounds like a stretch to me..

Why? It's not impossible that a black man was accepted to Oxford, you know...

Very true, its not impossible for a black man to get accepted to Oxford, but for one with 'only' 7 GCSEs/O levels to get accepted would be a near miracle mate 8)

Didn't he say 7 GCSEs and 3 O Levels?

That sounds like enough for those days.

Colin had 3 A levels.

jim wright wrote:

stujones wrote:

jim wright wrote:Ingle fighter Adam Kelly is studying architectural technology at Sheffield Hallam I believe.

I think Vit Klitsko has got a PHD in some sport related science.

Yeah, and I think Wlad has an Msc.

How is your doctoral thesis coming along stu?

Slowly, but coming along - so much red tape... thats the most frustrating part of it.

Had a shit load of problems a year or two back with funding - essentially had to leave it on standstill for a year, modify slightly and re-apply.

If there wasn't so many issues like that and rediculous costs... tuition fees are absolutely rediculous for the amount of tutoring I have - then I would have finished yonks ago. Now though, still think I will be at it for another 2 years. So many sub commitee's etc its got to pass (like ethics etc) even though I know there are no major ethical considerations - its still got to go through the rigmarol, and they usually take a month.

But at least now I have some data and the model is starting to form.

Ontop of that.... I have just been informed due to changes within the British Psychological Society - I have just been informed that in order to be a practising Sport Psychologist with a proffesional club (I do some voluntary.... well combining with coaching.... for an amateur club) I'm going to have to do another Masters. Even though I'll have a PhD in a Sports Psychology area, with a sports psychology research project. Becuase my official title will be PhD in Psychology, I'll need an Msc in Sport Psychology (my Msc is in Sport Science, my Bsc is in Sport Psychology). So cannot say I am too happy with that news. Just trying to weed out more money out of people.

You could always get a job Stu?

Southpaw Stylist wrote:

TerribleTerry wrote:

Scrap wrote:Colin McMillan was accepted for Law to Oxford 3 As but chose Pro Boxing

Dunno about that one mate. Colin is a clever fellar but being accepted to do law at Oxford (not Brookes) sounds like a stretch to me..

Why? It's not impossible that a black man was accepted to Oxford, you know...

I know several black people who went to Oxbridge...now get that chip off your shoulder man!

DavidPayne wrote:You could always get a job Stu?

Got one.

Fair play then lad.

E wrote:

Southpaw Stylist wrote:

TerribleTerry wrote: Dunno about that one mate. Colin is a clever fellar but being accepted to do law at Oxford (not Brookes) sounds like a stretch to me..

Why? It's not impossible that a black man was accepted to Oxford, you know...

I know several black people who went to Oxbridge...now get that chip off your shoulder man!

Eff off. Typical response to a young black male who says something alluding to his own race. It's nothing to do with "chips" you quunt.

a lot of boxers go on to succeed in business after they have finished fighting. but how many have gone on to oxbridge? does this need to be a race question?

i recall adrian dodson was studying at a university after his boxing career had flagged.