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buck smith....wtf?!?

Posted: 12 Mar 2012, 15:38
by apophenic
messing around randomly checking out fighters records...and came across this fella:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Smith

2 fights in a day...twice...12 fights in a month...120 ko's....

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_ ... &cat=boxer

i appreciate the opposition was (mostly) shite but what a story.......

how the f**k do you get 25 no contests tho!?

Re: buck smith....wtf?!?

Posted: 12 Mar 2012, 15:43
by damianhucker1
Beat Kirkand Laing though .

Re: buck smith....wtf?!?

Posted: 12 Mar 2012, 15:45
by pyenest77
Watched him fight Kirkland Laing live on Midweek Sports Special.

Re: buck smith....wtf?!?

Posted: 12 Mar 2012, 15:51
by TerribleTerry
He fought his manager, amongst others, multiple times.

His win over Laing proved he could actually fight but a career spent plying his trade in states without boxing commisions places hid stats and achievements under question...

Re: buck smith....wtf?!?

Posted: 12 Mar 2012, 16:21
by tommo100
he was actually in the crowd when he had his first fight,his opponent`s original fighter did`nt show so the mc asked if anyone fancied a fight,buck stood up and fought in his trainers and shorts,he liked it so much he was fighting "a bum a week" as he put it

as others have stated,he did have ability,taking kirkland laing out with one shot

Re: buck smith....wtf?!?

Posted: 12 Mar 2012, 16:44
by flatnoseflynn
Buck Smith vs Kirland Laing at 3.30 I remember that being a heavy KO loss for Laing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZjF-Evl ... re=related


Loved Laing style though class. :TU:

Re: buck smith....wtf?!?

Posted: 12 Mar 2012, 16:56
by Londonirish
apophenic wrote:
how the f**k do you get 25 no contests tho!?

:lol: I know what your saying, i think some of these fights where exhibition fights, dont know how they go down on record tho..

Out of 226 fight only 2 was for a Title :-?
Won 179 (KO 120) + lost 20 (KO 9) + drawn 2 = 226 Boxed over 1000 rounds knocking more 50% of them wins out and losing your 1st Fight to Ali Smith a 0-4-0 who ended up 1-8-0 so his only win was against Buck, and to top it off Ali Smith was A Feather Weight :o Buck finished up at cruiserweight

Re: buck smith....wtf?!?

Posted: 12 Mar 2012, 19:04
by Datsue
It's 'cos of all the record padding he did versus ringers. He fought Verdell Smith about a dozen times or something stupid, & in all but one of them Smith pretended to be someone else.

Those "fights" are, for obvious reasons, not quite considered 100% on the level, & they go down in the Boxrec database as "ND".

This article from the New York Times kind of explains what was going on.

This place is good for a laugh, too, if like me you find the depths of human misery & exploitation funny:

http://stealth.kirenet.com/~quandary/hos.html

EDIT: Remarkably good dig into the whole murky shebang here, too: http://archives.citypaper.net/articles/ ... e005.shtml

Re: buck smith....wtf?!?

Posted: 12 Mar 2012, 19:18
by apophenic
good stuff

:TU:

Re: buck smith....wtf?!?

Posted: 12 Mar 2012, 19:23
by Datsue
If you are a horrible person (like me) & find the whole terrible thing about dodgy Midwest boxing compellingly human, tragic, & hilarious, that Undernet boxing site is a goldmine.

Witness:
Week of December 19-25, 2004:
Fighter of the week -- Originally, it was decided that no award would be given this week due to the lack of in-ring action, but after further consideration, it was determined that Tiger Smalls would be a more-than-worthy recipient, based on his appearance in the February 2005 issue of High Times magazine, which was available on newsstands this week. In the article, Smalls revealed that, for him, sparring while high is "like playing a video game," and that he smokes up to seven "blunts" per day, going on to add: "What's all this slicing-the-cigar-open-with-a-razor-blade shit?...You know what I'm saying? That's the way pussies do it."
Also:
Week of December 5-11, 2004:
FOW -- Graciano Rocchigiani, for allegedly violating his parole by punching a taxi driver outside a hotel and having to be pepper-sprayed and subdued by a team of half a dozen policemen.
Dishonorable mention -- Vinroy Barrett for fighting Lester Yarbrough, 13-0 Marco Schulze for losing to some 0-2 Latvian guy, previously undefeated Nimrod Koren for losing TKO2 to a 4-9 fighter, Anton Glofak and Anton Vontszemu for once again battling to a draw, and Luis Galarza who, in a rematch of his eventful January bout with Anthony Bowman, was disqualified when he knocked Bowman senseless with a nice one-two combination right after the final bell sounded.

Boxing's rich & storied history et cetera et cetera...

PS: Ian, give us some money so I can nick their idea of Bumwatch (http://bumwatch.blogspot.com/) & set it up as a commercialised, low-class version of Maxboxing. We'll be rich* & famous**. It'll be great.


*: In, er, love.

**: To those who follow the murkier side of Arkansas boxing.

Re: buck smith....wtf?!?

Posted: 13 Mar 2012, 00:52
by Coco
Buck Smith was supposed to have a title fight some years back, think it was against Chris Pyatt, but the board stopped it because of all of the recent ringers on his record.