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anyone have any memories of this ,heard others talk about and i vaguely remeber it .

what was the card ,what was the main event? any surprises ...

Alba wrote:anyone have any memories of this ,heard others talk about and i vaguely remeber it .

what was the card ,what was the main event? any surprises ...

Full Monty.It was in Sheffield with a Prime Naz putting on a clinic in the main event against Jose Badillo.It was a very stacked card including Calzaghe-Eubank.

The first one was in Sheffield (obviously!)

I went, it was a pretty long evening, with the ingle/irwin fight being about 1 or 2am from memory.

Hamed/badillo
Calzaghe/Eubank
ingle/irwin

I think the biggest upset that night was keaton banjoing kelly oliver.

Steffy Bull almost pulled the upset on Pithie with just 24 hours notice, that was a decent scrap.

Winters almost died after the fight with Wright.

Jason Matthews/Darren Dorrington was a war.

I don't remember the 2nd one, it was about 3 years later?

Quick google says Full Monty II was:

calzaghe/woodhall
sinclair/santos
ingle/botile
martinez/pickering

Remember watching it on TV and only thing I can remember is Sinclair having Santos down early before being nailed by a monster hook in the 2nd. I've no memory of the Ingle fight..which is strange, given the outcome. Was it shown on TV?

orbtastic wrote:The first one was in Sheffield (obviously!)

I went, it was a pretty long evening, with the ingle/irwin fight being about 1 or 2am from memory.

Hamed/badillo
Calzaghe/Eubank
ingle/irwin

I think the biggest upset that night was keaton banjoing kelly oliver.

Steffy Bull almost pulled the upset on Pithie with just 24 hours notice, that was a decent scrap.

Winters almost died after the fight with Wright.

Jason Matthews/Darren Dorrington was a war.

feck, takes me back. good card that.

yeah, wasn't bad..if a little long. The weird thing is I have this weird composite memory of it because I remember watching pithie/bull & eubnak/calzaghe from very close, but nelson/dirk wotsit winters/wright from further away/different angle.

i'd love to see dorrington/matthews again, great little scrap and some proper aggro between the hackney and bristol boys. same with panayi/coogan, minus the aggro.

In hindsight, the signs were there for both Matthews & Pithie that night.

orbtastic wrote:Quick google says Full Monty II was:

calzaghe/woodhall
sinclair/santos
ingle/botile
martinez/pickering

Remember watching it on TV and only thing I can remember is Sinclair having Santos down early before being nailed by a monster hook in the 2nd. I've no memory of the Ingle fight..which is strange, given the outcome. Was it shown on TV?

Oh,it was shown alright.It didnt even look like Paul in there and he took a real beating.Definately should have been pulled out.

mickey1975 wrote:

Alba wrote:anyone have any memories of this ,heard others talk about and i vaguely remeber it .

what was the card ,what was the main event? any surprises ...

Full Monty.It was in Sheffield with a Prime Naz putting on a clinic in the main event against Jose Badillo.It was a very stacked card including Calzaghe-Eubank.

I watched this in a sports bar in the West End. England were playing Italy that night to qualify for France '98. When the football was finished they showed Calzaghe Vs Eubank after. That night cost me a bundle in drinks and the hangover from hell the following day!

mickey1975 wrote:

orbtastic wrote:Quick google says Full Monty II was:

calzaghe/woodhall
sinclair/santos
ingle/botile
martinez/pickering

Remember watching it on TV and only thing I can remember is Sinclair having Santos down early before being nailed by a monster hook in the 2nd. I've no memory of the Ingle fight..which is strange, given the outcome. Was it shown on TV?

Oh,it was shown alright.It didnt even look like Paul in there and he took a real beating.Definately should have been pulled out.

he was a big drainer, it looks like it caught up with him?

Thankfully, the leather clad ring card guys idea didn't catch on

Yeah, was ringside that night. Eubank was down to fight mark prince at lightheavy but ended up fighting Calzaghe because of Collins retirment. There was also Jonny Nelson v Dirk Wallyn, Pele Reid v Elixon and Ryan Rhodes V Yuri epifansev. Great bill!

Full Monty 2 was a good card to - but alas the worst of all memories from that night were the injuries Paul Ingle sustained.

Great card....Naz was proper giving it to Eubanks during the Calzaghe fight....Cal;zaghe pulling ali shuffles from out his arse....walking to the ring with Prodigy blasting out. People forget what a classic fight that was between 2 great fighters.

its been good reading these memories !were they both on SBO ?

Spiderico wrote:Great card....Naz was proper giving it to Eubanks during the Calzaghe fight....Cal;zaghe pulling ali shuffles from out his arse....walking to the ring with Prodigy blasting out. People forget what a classic fight that was between 2 great fighters.

You just prompted a memory from the dpeths of my brain...

Didn't Eubank turn round at one point and loudly, sternly, say "Shut Up Naseem!"

?

"T.M.K"

T.M.K wrote:

Spiderico wrote:Great card....Naz was proper giving it to Eubanks during the Calzaghe fight....Cal;zaghe pulling ali shuffles from out his arse....walking to the ring with Prodigy blasting out. People forget what a classic fight that was between 2 great fighters.

You just prompted a memory from the dpeths of my brain...

Didn't Eubank turn round at one point and loudly, sternly, say "Shut Up Naseem!"

?

"T.M.K"

Ha yeh I remember Eubanks gesturing over to Naz at one point like you would when asking someone to keep it down.....Naz was just sat slouched with his arms around Warren and his dad. After the fight he jumped in the ring and was all over Calzaghe....Great night billed around the fall out with Naz and Christopher.

It was Carl Wright who lapsed into a coma, as opposed to Mark Winters. The Liverpool man has been left with a slight limp and memory loss but otherwise he's OK.