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Who are the best Amateur and Pro ?

And who were the best in the past ?

Gomez and Andy Lee for me in the pros and John Joe Nevin in the amateurs !

Is Andy Lee a traveller?¿

macinger wrote:Is Andy Lee a traveller?¿

Ya Andy is a traveller
Michael sweeney
Gary sweeney(amature silver in euro 2011 youth)
Colman Barrett
Francie Barrett
Billy corcoran
Eddie corcoran
paddy ward (bareknuckl)
paddy mcdonagh
Joe ward (amature)

Ever hear of a bare-knuckle boxer (traveller) from Tyrone called Barney Corcoran?
Is Frankie Gavin from travelling stock?
I heard Big John McDermott is.

the frankhams, the finnegans, god we'd be here all day.

henry wharton was a good fighter.

The majority of good Irish amateurs are travellers.
The Joyces, Nevins, Wards, McDonaghs... Read recently that Michael O'Reilly from Portlaoise is too.

the coopers, i think danny cooper was british champ.

matthew barney... (tbf slippery as you like)

ApolloCreed wrote:The majority of good Irish amateurs are travellers.
The Joyces, Nevins, Wards, McDonaghs... Read recently that Michael O'Reilly from Portlaoise is too.

Sweeneys,myers loads more

Henry sweet-bread Wharton. British, Common Wealth, Euro Champ, Can look after his self equally outside the ring. Nice Guy but if the left hook hits you its good night.

ApolloCreed wrote:Ever hear of a bare-knuckle boxer (traveller) from Tyrone called Barney Corcoran?
Is Frankie Gavin from travelling stock?
I heard Big John McDermott is.

Corcoran's can fight for fun Billy and Eddie's younger Borther is Different Class within 2 years he will making a lot of noise............
Frankie is, John aint from Irish Traveller's........

PJ and Patrick "Blue Boy" Gallagher where very good..........

The obvious one's are Tony Doherty (paddy's bro), Tyson Fury and John O'donnell.

Ive heard about a big 6 foot 7 16 year old from manchester called kiely is meant to be very good .And another lad Johnny Coyle ! Has anyone heard of them or seen them fight ?

Martin Ward from Repton he is a class act aswel 1

I'm sure there have been a couple of French travellers that won world titles.

ApolloCreed wrote:The majority of good Irish amateurs are travellers.
The Joyces, Nevins, Wards, McDonaghs... Read recently that Michael O'Reilly from Portlaoise is too.

Thats not true mate. Plenty of gooduns but not the majority.

I'll post finals results from juvenile, boy 1,2 and 3 I think it was this year.
I remember practically every fight involved a Maughan, Ward, McDonagh, Stokes, Mongan...
On Irish elite team for worlds - Joyce, ward, nevin...
Ok, maybe not over 50% (at underage level, yes) but a huge proportion!

A fella called Jessie James from Leeds was good, there is also a big family from Cardiff called Janes, where they are all tough fighting men, Neville Smith was also a good fighter

dougie joyce

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... ugie-joyce

Coco wrote:A fella called Jessie James from Leeds was good, there is also a big family from Cardiff called Janes, where they are all tough fighting men, Neville Smith was also a good fighter

He is Danny James and was good but the winner, hands down, is Henry Wharton. Am pedigree plus pro achievements speak for themselves.

The Kiely lad you mentioned, is he the son of Tony Kiely? I used to box under him in Offerton about 10 years ago.

You have got Alfie smith who just had hes first pro fight. im sure hes goin to be winning titles as long as he lives the life. Im sure we all know a traveller boxer who was a really good amateur but just couldnt live the life of a pro.

Ernie (RIP) and Billy Smith to me, fight anyone any time, prospects, future world champs at little or no notice.

jem mace was the first traveller who become a champion,bare knuckler. yea john mcdermott is from travelling people,billy joe saunders is another. anybody know what henry wharton is up too these days ? good fighter him,tough ! mark baker was another traveller,pj blueboy gallagher was another as he beat billy schwer in the aba finals.

keithmoonhangover wrote:I'm sure there have been a couple of French travellers that won world titles.

Jean Claude Chanet, Fabrice Benichou. George and Tony Collins were good fighters too

oh aye you missed the first romany world champion,none other than the great freddie mills,he was from a famous romany family !

What happened to Micheal maguire.he was a top am then turned pro with haymaker.not heard anything about him in a while.