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Shhhh wrote: ↑01 Jun 2020, 09:47

PredatorHayds wrote: ↑01 Jun 2020, 09:13 Sugar Gibiliru was a good learning fight for everyone.
On paper his record looked like a journeyman but he went on to win a British title.
He had two very good learning fights for Floyd Havard.

Now theirs a blast from the past! He fought just about every brit around his weight. He won central area title and also stopped fancies Robert Dickie for British title (at that time when no one could hold on to it.)Hed fight anyone at any notice. Hardly ever got stopped. He had a mullet as I remember. Always loved a fighter with a mullet. He had a draw with pat Barrett too

For some reason then, Bamana Dibateza popped into my head. Probably the sugar and super feather mentions but it took me forever to remember the proper spelling so I could find his record as I couldn't remember who he fought off the top of my head. Had to go find an old BBBoC record book to find him.

Silence shaheed was another, actually with him you had a bull of a man who just kept coming all night!

PredatorHayds wrote: ↑01 Jun 2020, 09:13 Sugar Gibiliru was a good learning fight for everyone.
On paper his record looked like a journeyman but he went on to win a British title.
He had two very good learning fights for Floyd Havard.

I loved the jinx on the British super-featherweight title in the 1980s and 1990s because it allowed some fantastic servants to the game such as Gibiliru, Najib Daho, John Doherty and Kevin Pritchard a taste of glory which they deserved every bit of. Gibiliru stopped Robert Dickie to win the title and that is extraordinary because Dickie, who sadly passed away many moons ago, was a strong, strong fighter.

Shhhh wrote: ↑02 Jun 2020, 05:21

bennie wrote: ↑01 Jun 2020, 22:47


I loved the jinx on the British super-featherweight title in the 1980s and 1990s because it allowed some fantastic servants to the game such as Gibiliru, Najib Daho, John Doherty and Kevin Pritchard a taste of glory which they deserved every bit of. Gibiliru stopped Robert Dickie to win the title and that is extraordinary because Dickie, who sadly passed away many moons ago, was a strong, strong fighter.

Geez didn’t know Dickie had passed as well... rip

I bumped into Robert a few days before he passed, first time I had seem him in ages, he was in good shape and good spirits, it just shows that when your number is up.

Coco wrote: ↑02 Jun 2020, 06:13

Shhhh wrote: ↑02 Jun 2020, 05:21
Geez didn’t know Dickie had passed as well... rip

I bumped into Robert a few days before he passed, first time I had seem him in ages, he was in good shape and good spirits, it just shows that when your number is up.

I watched Robert's fight with Rocky Lawlor on youtube the other day and it's hilarious because Rocky is making his first TV appearance (apart from a brief clip of him getting chinned by Keith Wallace a couple of years earlier) and he completely loses it in front of the Fight Night cameras, fouling Robert repeatedly until referee Paul Thomas slings him out in the second round. He and Nobby Nobbs then have the nerve to demand a rematch as if they had just been robbed.

Shhhh wrote: ↑01 Jun 2020, 09:47

PredatorHayds wrote: ↑01 Jun 2020, 09:13 Sugar Gibiliru was a good learning fight for everyone.
On paper his record looked like a journeyman but he went on to win a British title.
He had two very good learning fights for Floyd Havard.

Now theirs a blast from the past! He fought just about every brit around his weight. He won central area title and also stopped fancies Robert Dickie for British title (at that time when no one could hold on to it.)Hed fight anyone at any notice. Hardly ever got stopped. He had a mullet as I remember. Always loved a fighter with a mullet. He had a draw with pat Barrett too

I am just about old enough to remember his dad fighting (also Sugar Gibiliru and also a man who would go in with anyone). I was ecstatic for his son when he got a crack at the Commonwealth title back in 1990 but Sugar suffered a brutal knockout at the hands of Mark Reefer and it looked curtains for the Liverpool warrior. Amazingly, he came back stronger than ever to win the British title a year later.