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Jackson328 wrote:

boxingknockout wrote:

Jackson328 wrote:Curtis Woodhouse

It would be some dreadful low budget cliche production. No way. It's not even that great a story. Bullying some internet poster is hardly a worthwhile topic. .

Fair enough, I just love an 'underdog realising a dream' type of story. I think it depends on whether you like the main character or not, I followed Curtis' story and was delighted when he finally won the British title. If the betting story is true then even better! I agree its not exactly Hollywood blockbuster material but it was still a story that warmed my heart.

I recently watched the Tapia documentary and thought that was very good. I remember seeing the trailer for 'Gomez' and thinking it looked promising, was disappointed it never actually came out.

One of the best boxing books I've read was 'The Killings Of Stanley Ketchel' and I'd love to see that on the big screen if they could get the characters right, the Michigan Assassin had a very colourful life indeed!

Sklar wrote:

Naandrew wrote:

Tomasino wrote:Jiro Watanabe. World Champion and Yakuza assassin. Some life he's had!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T5eK6JlKQMQ

Lol, what a load of bolllocks most of that is.

October of that year he was fighting at the Pioneer Sporting Club in New York. It was around this time that Daniels was introduced to James J. Johnston, a local boxing promoter. Johnston decided that Daniels needed a gimmick to sell himself to the public, and decided that he looked "like a gypsy". Johnston took Daniels to a Woolworths five-and-ten-cent store and dressed him in cheap bandanna headscarves and hooped earrings. Johnston dubbed him 'Gypsey Daniels', though the most commonly used spelling of his nickname was 'Gipsy'.[3] Daniels fought eight times in New York, including two contests at Madison Square Garden, before returning to Great Britain.[4]

tobyh5 wrote:Never seen the Paul Sykes documentary before. Christ, he was a right 'ard bastard

jaymitch81 wrote:

tobyh5 wrote:Never seen the Paul Sykes documentary before. Christ, he was a right 'ard bastard

Not that i would ever had said it to him but i found him a prat in that documentary. Anyone on here from wakefield confirm why he was idolised?

Taansend wrote:

Jackson328 wrote:

boxingknockout wrote:
It would be some dreadful low budget cliche production. No way. It's not even that great a story. Bullying some internet poster is hardly a worthwhile topic. .

Fair enough, I just love an 'underdog realising a dream' type of story. I think it depends on whether you like the main character or not, I followed Curtis' story and was delighted when he finally won the British title. If the betting story is true then even better! I agree its not exactly Hollywood blockbuster material but it was still a story that warmed my heart.

I recently watched the Tapia documentary and thought that was very good. I remember seeing the trailer for 'Gomez' and thinking it looked promising, was disappointed it never actually came out.

One of the best boxing books I've read was 'The Killings Of Stanley Ketchel' and I'd love to see that on the big screen if they could get the characters right, the Michigan Assassin had a very colourful life indeed!

I love that book and think that would be a great film.

Also Terry Downes. London boy goes to America after the war because his dancer sister loses an arm in an accident. Joins the marines, loads of adventures then comes back to England. Hyped up prospect. Loads of setbacks. Eventually wins a world title.

Shirow wrote:Kirkland Laing.

Does anyone know how he has been since his fall off a balcony?

rab wrote:michael gomez , from the little i know he had a hard life as a kid. i still think he is one of the biggest unfulfilled talents uk boxing has ever seen,and there have been more than a few.

Shirow wrote:Kirkland Laing.

Does anyone know how he has been since his fall off a balcony?

Lenny Cravats wrote:Ali Raymi. It'd have to be a Spinal Tap-esque mockumentary, but with quotes like;

If defeating me was a possibility; I would have died long ago! ..... Send them ..... Your Lions I Declaw ... Your Serpents I Defang ... Your Greats I Belittle.


My style is intentionally natural, I will fight till the last moment of my biological existence. … I don’t like discussing my pre-boxing past as I feel it will be considered inappropriately semi-legendary


I been around as far as life existed, 40 is just what humans recognize as my age. Skipping Theology, age will not be an issue


History will remember me as the most powerful puncher that rambled through divisions like the Nazi divisions did France, Belgium & the lowlanders. Ducking me and running away to Dunkirk makes you a coward. Until someone stands up to my fistic tyranny I am the one and only dictator.


The fact that he dies in an air strike, has the record for the most consecutive first round KO's, dies in an air strike and may well have never existed, it would be amazing.

Fearful_Freddie wrote:

jaymitch81 wrote:

tobyh5 wrote:Never seen the Paul Sykes documentary before. Christ, he was a right 'ard bastard

Not that i would ever had said it to him but i found him a prat in that documentary. Anyone on here from wakefield confirm why he was idolised?

Sounded like a pure bully. Used to spit in folk's pints and take them away. Think he got banned from Wakefield town centre. At least one of his sons is in prison for murder. A wrong'un.

jaymitch81 wrote:

Fearful_Freddie wrote:

jaymitch81 wrote:
Not that i would ever had said it to him but i found him a prat in that documentary. Anyone on here from wakefield confirm why he was idolised?

Sounded like a pure bully. Used to spit in folk's pints and take them away. Think he got banned from Wakefield town centre. At least one of his sons is in prison for murder. A wrong'un.

Both in for murder mate.
I just did not take to him. Absolute Bully to his Dad and used his physique to intimidate people.

Stuarty30 wrote:

rab wrote:michael gomez , from the little i know he had a hard life as a kid. i still think he is one of the biggest unfulfilled talents uk boxing has ever seen,and there have been more than a few.

Crazy life and a proper warrior. I see Gomez as an over achiever though. I was never his biggest fan but he was a fine fighter. Beating and dominating a quality fighter in Alex Arthur away from hom was his finest hour!

jaymitch81 wrote:

Fearful_Freddie wrote:

jaymitch81 wrote:
Not that i would ever had said it to him but i found him a prat in that documentary. Anyone on here from wakefield confirm why he was idolised?

Sounded like a pure bully. Used to spit in folk's pints and take them away. Think he got banned from Wakefield town centre. At least one of his sons is in prison for murder. A wrong'un.

Both in for murder mate.
I just did not take to him. Absolute Bully to his Dad and used his physique to intimidate people.