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Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 26 Oct 2009, 11:50
by el_grande_mauro_mina
Do you remember Gail Platts really blond, girly looking son from 10 years ago? Don't ask but I was looking
at the shortland street website (A New Zealand soapie) and here are some facts about the actor Adam Rickitt?

http://tvnz.co.nz/shortland-street-feat ... ow-2216911

About Adam Rickitt


1. His lucky number is '2'

2. He won a National Amateur boxing championship

3. He once trained as a chef

4. He is obsessed with Grand Prix

5. He speaks fluent French


Was Adam Rickitt a national amateur boxing champion or is he bullshitting the Kiwis because 'he comes from afar' ?

I follow the amateur scene but I have never heard about Adam Rickett being a national (I take it he was an ABA or NABC champion
of some sort) champion? :confused:

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 26 Oct 2009, 11:52
by Coco
Gotta be bullshit!
http://www.abae.co.uk/

All champions are shown on this site

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 26 Oct 2009, 11:56
by Wales
E-mail the web site!!!


Mind you, didnt he live in Canada for a bit, or am I confusing the realms of reality and soap again?



He's a proper tit aswel isnt he. I dont know him on a personal level, just got something about him - both on screen and off screen interviews... probably very nice.. a liar, but a very nice liar.

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 26 Oct 2009, 12:11
by Coco
Just spent half an hour scolling through all the champions and he isn't there, doubt he has been near a gym in his life. Seeing the quality of the names that did win he really has made an ass of himself by claiming that

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 26 Oct 2009, 13:12
by alexpaterson
Bet he didnt think we would be sad enough to look it up but he was wrong :DD

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 26 Oct 2009, 13:14
by Chambers2
Adams Dad is from Andorra, I believe Adam won a national amateur championships over there



I've just made that up, because I was bored

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 26 Oct 2009, 15:05
by rhino222
i think im getting a little bit aroused.... :oops:

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Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 26 Oct 2009, 15:59
by tijuana1
There is a big blank for the 1998 section. Under 20's Novice title. I'm an ex champ and not listed gutted. :verysad:

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 26 Oct 2009, 16:11
by dondada
Just found it.

He beat:

S McDonald
A Tatlock
S Ogden
J Duckworth
before both he and fellow finalist K Barlow were both thrown out for lack of action.

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 26 Oct 2009, 18:58
by rhino222
Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:Just found it.

He beat:

S McDonald
A Tatlock
S Ogden
J Duckworth
before both he and fellow finalist K Barlow were both thrown out for lack of action.
albert tatlock looked like he had taken a few jabs on his nose..

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 26 Oct 2009, 22:21
by unorthodox
Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:Just found it.

He beat:

S McDonald
A Tatlock
S Ogden
J Duckworth
before both he and fellow finalist K Barlow were both thrown out for lack of action.
hahaha

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 27 Oct 2009, 03:48
by Wax On
I wouldn't put anything past this lad; he has after all been a famous actor despite not being able to act, been a pop star, depsite not being able to sing, and ran for a Tory MP despite being....well actually you don't need any qualifications for that.

Good to see he is still stealing a living!

What I really want to know about this thread though, is how bored you have to be to be browsing the shortland street web-site!!!

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 27 Oct 2009, 04:59
by Wales
We need to follow this up ... "I WANT THE TRUTH"

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 27 Oct 2009, 05:04
by hurlock
Wales wrote:We need to follow this up ... "I WANT THE TRUTH"
more then you want him?

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 27 Oct 2009, 05:07
by Wales
Correct response is "you cant handle the truth" , but on this occassion, as its you, we'll accept "more than you want him" , which incidentally is a very strange response. Last thing I'd imagine is one of the other posters "wanting" adam rickets, but there we go. horses for coarses.

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 27 Oct 2009, 08:04
by el_grande_mauro_mina
Not many of you follow Australian and New Zealand boxing so I will fill you in on a bit of background information...

OK, so on Shortland Street, there is an actor called Xavier Horan - a rugged Maori actor in the vein of Temura Morrison (Jake the Mus of Once Were Warriors - he was in Shortland Street as Dr Heni Ropata :oops:) and anyway - Xavier Horan turned pro as a stand in for Gary 'The Baboon' Gurr who got toothache before his bout against Dean 'The Bouncer' Allen over in Auckland.

So - if you can imagine Steve McDonald (or the bloke who plays him) turning pro as a heavyweight in this country and knocking the shite out of Dean 'The Bouncer' Allen in three rounds - who'd had thought it eh? Some poncy thespian giving a hard as nails barroom bouncer a good hiding in the ring - so thats what happened.

Anyway - Xavier Horan is a tough guy even though he is a soap star in New Zealand - he fancies himself as a boxer and was lined up to take on Adam Forsyth an Australian olympian and commonwealth games medalist - now this is like Steve McDonald taking on David Price over four rounds! :lol: Horan had the good sense to pull out and get a bit more experience in a New Zealand ring - so anyway thats the background stroy and I decided to look up a bit more about Xavier Horan.

So, stand back in amazement when I look at the shortland street website and find out the championship boxer in the cast is not Xavier Horan but ADAM RICKITT :box: Bloody hell - someone is having a laugh surely! He must have won on a walkover in the gayweight division in the Monserrat championships 1997 (the day after the volcano erupted)

Now I am starting to sound like wildwayon so I will stop right here! But I think young Adam is telling fibs! :evil:

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 27 Oct 2009, 08:19
by Captain Hook
I seem to remember an interview years ago where he talked about being a boxer abroad?

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 27 Oct 2009, 08:20
by Captain Hook
PS To be honest I wasn't paying attention I was just looking at the pictures? :TU:

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 27 Oct 2009, 08:39
by Asterix
Coco wrote:Just spent half an hour scolling through all the champions and he isn't there, doubt he has been near a gym in his life. Seeing the quality of the names that did win he really has made an ass of himself by claiming that
Ctrl+F on your keyboard will bring up the 'Find' feature. Then just type in what you're looking for on the page. Saves time! :TU:

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 27 Oct 2009, 08:40
by el_grande_mauro_mina
Terry D wrote:
Captain Hook wrote:I seem to remember an interview years ago where he talked about being a boxer abroad?
Nah, he said he got into some boxers and they didn't belong to a broad.
:lol:

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 27 Oct 2009, 11:02
by Wake up call
This is like that Rob Tickle bloke that goes out with Jennifer Ellison. Claims to be a boxer yet there's no evidence to prove it.

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 27 Oct 2009, 11:10
by el_grande_mauro_mina
I googled 'adam rickitt and boxing' and got this pdf file from an agency

http://www.johnsonlaird.com/assets/docu ... graphy.pdf

There is something of a biography about Adam Rickitts boxing career and that he was a 'north of england'
amateur boxing champion.


Now I have heard of the NW counties and the NE counties but I have never heard of the 'North of England'
amatuer title. :lol: Have the WBO or the WBU got involved with the amateur boxing game since I have been
away? Making up bogus multiple titles?

I can't open the pdf file here in China - the authorities have banned me from seeing it just in case there is information
detrimemtal to china - still I can access to BNP and Stormfront website in China. :shame:

So if anyone can open the pdf file and post on here the info about Adam Rickitt being the 'North of England' amateur boxing
champion, I would be very grateful! Cheers chaps!

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 27 Oct 2009, 11:16
by banjo
Wake up call wrote:This is like that Rob Tickle bloke that goes out with Jennifer Ellison. Claims to be a boxer yet there's no evidence to prove it.
He's unlicensed.

Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 27 Oct 2009, 11:17
by Asterix
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Re: Coronation Street - Adam Rickitt..

Posted: 27 Oct 2009, 11:20
by tonyevs
Seems that every guy who spent time on the weights used to box - and every guy who spent time in the armed forces used to be in the SAS :-?