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I was telling a mate that one time a fight was cancelled at the very last minute so a boxer sitting in the audience stepped into the ring to take the place of the boxer who'd pulled out. Does anybody remember when and who this was?

Tim Tomashek against Tommy Morrison

Great stuff. Thanks mate

It's an apocryphal. The original opponent, Mike Williams, hadn't shown up for the weigh in the day before and they knew he wasn't going to fight. Tomashek didn't really come out of the audience, he had already been on standby if Williams dropped out. They just orchestrated this WWF 'plucked out the crowd' scene to try distract from the shitty match.

Horrifyingly, allegedly put together worse WBO title fights than Morrison vs Tomashek. Anyone for Herbie Hide vs Damon Reed?

loaded_gloves wrote:It's an apocryphal. The original opponent, Mike Williams, hadn't shown up for the weigh in the day before and they knew he wasn't going to fight. Tomashek didn't really come out of the audience, he had already been on standby if Williams dropped out. They just orchestrated this WWF 'plucked out the crowd' scene to try distract from the shitty match.

Horrifyingly, allegedly put together worse WBO title fights than Morrison vs Tomashek. Anyone for Herbie Hide vs Damon Reed?

Enzo v Bobby Gunn springs to mind as well

They'd have been better with Billy Gunn, of WWE fame

Charley "The Devil" Green famously went from the crowd to fight the great Jose Torres. He'd already had a hotdog and a beer before the fight started.

iamasadlittleboy wrote:

loaded_gloves wrote:It's an apocryphal. The original opponent, Mike Williams, hadn't shown up for the weigh in the day before and they knew he wasn't going to fight. Tomashek didn't really come out of the audience, he had already been on standby if Williams dropped out. They just orchestrated this WWF 'plucked out the crowd' scene to try distract from the shitty match.

Horrifyingly, allegedly put together worse WBO title fights than Morrison vs Tomashek. Anyone for Herbie Hide vs Damon Reed?

Enzo v Bobby Gunn springs to mind as well

That's always the one I think of as a really cynical, shocking piece of match-making.

iamasadlittleboy wrote:

loaded_gloves wrote:It's an apocryphal. The original opponent, Mike Williams, hadn't shown up for the weigh in the day before and they knew he wasn't going to fight. Tomashek didn't really come out of the audience, he had already been on standby if Williams dropped out. They just orchestrated this WWF 'plucked out the crowd' scene to try distract from the shitty match.

Horrifyingly, allegedly put together worse WBO title fights than Morrison vs Tomashek. Anyone for Herbie Hide vs Damon Reed?

Enzo v Bobby Gunn springs to mind as well

Bobby brown would have being more dangerous

I'm assuming that Mitch 'Hold My Beer' Hicks has done this before

Deserter wrote:

iamasadlittleboy wrote:

loaded_gloves wrote:It's an apocryphal. The original opponent, Mike Williams, hadn't shown up for the weigh in the day before and they knew he wasn't going to fight. Tomashek didn't really come out of the audience, he had already been on standby if Williams dropped out. They just orchestrated this WWF 'plucked out the crowd' scene to try distract from the shitty match.

Horrifyingly, allegedly put together worse WBO title fights than Morrison vs Tomashek. Anyone for Herbie Hide vs Damon Reed?

Enzo v Bobby Gunn springs to mind as well

That's always the one I think of as a really cynical, shocking piece of match-making.

Cant complain, betting on KO1 paid for 12 of our nights out in cardiff. May aswel have handed out cash at the turnstrile.

My mate did the above in and EBF contest, he'd had one fight previously and was told the opponent was a debutant from Sheffield. He lots via points over 3. in the bar afterward the lad from sheffield had a good old chuckle because his record was actually 11-2 and well the promoters knew. Dangers of EBF etc... I think that fight is on youtube.

Wales wrote:Cant complain, betting on KO1 paid for 12 of our nights out in cardiff. May aswel have handed out cash at the turnstrile.

Hi gents,

howsabout the chap who won a WBO belt at Fly or Superflyweight a few years back...... one minute sitting in the crowd eating a doughnut and the next minute he was borrowing shorts and boots, then he was suddenly fighting, and he won the belt!

Isidro Garcia perhaps?

Can anyone remember?

"T.M.K"

Jeff Thomas wrote:

iamasadlittleboy wrote:

loaded_gloves wrote:It's an apocryphal. The original opponent, Mike Williams, hadn't shown up for the weigh in the day before and they knew he wasn't going to fight. Tomashek didn't really come out of the audience, he had already been on standby if Williams dropped out. They just orchestrated this WWF 'plucked out the crowd' scene to try distract from the shitty match.

Horrifyingly, allegedly put together worse WBO title fights than Morrison vs Tomashek. Anyone for Herbie Hide vs Damon Reed?

Enzo v Bobby Gunn springs to mind as well

Bobby brown would have being more dangerous

Bobby Ball would have been more dangerous.

jameswilson wrote: Bobby Ball would have been more dangerous.

he follows me on twitter. seemingly because i told him he looked like a friedn of mine, Colin Bulldog, #SmallAndFreaky

On the WBO super flyweight thingy - he wouldve have had to have been weighed and assesed by a doctor etc... before stepping in the ring and fighting, so it wouldve been a set up, I assume.

ShadrachSimmo wrote:Charley "The Devil" Green famously went from the crowd to fight the great Jose Torres. He'd already had a hotdog and a beer before the fight started.

And he knocked Torres down in round one too I remember hearing. And he also demanded $10 on top of his purse as he paid for his ticket to get in the Garden that night. Legend has it he said "I'll be damned if I'm paying to watch myself fight"

iamasadlittleboy wrote:

loaded_gloves wrote:It's an apocryphal. The original opponent, Mike Williams, hadn't shown up for the weigh in the day before and they knew he wasn't going to fight. Tomashek didn't really come out of the audience, he had already been on standby if Williams dropped out. They just orchestrated this WWF 'plucked out the crowd' scene to try distract from the shitty match.

Horrifyingly, allegedly put together worse WBO title fights than Morrison vs Tomashek. Anyone for Herbie Hide vs Damon Reed?

Enzo v Bobby Gunn springs to mind as well

I always find it difficult to think too badly of that one, simply due to winning a few quid in the only time I've ever been tempted to bet on the round a fight would finish in! I'd watched Gunn on YouTube in a mental fight against Shelby Gross and it looked like a sure thing. Which it was.

More shockingly, but less remarked on, is the fact Adamek was allowed to defend his IBF title against Gunn a couple of years later. Gunn vs Gross II obviously did the trick.

There's an interview with Morrison a few years back where he said that Hunter was already showing signs the week of the fight that he wanted out and they had Tim on standby...however, he WAS in the audience and he was sucking back a couple of beers.

This is corroborated by Al Bernstein in his book in some detail.

Tommy Stubbs did this a few months back on a dinner show , went to watch his pal who decided not to fight as his opponent was over weight - Stubbsy said Ill fight him , took his suit off ,borrowed his gear and won!!!

Flump wrote:

ShadrachSimmo wrote:Charley "The Devil" Green famously went from the crowd to fight the great Jose Torres. He'd already had a hotdog and a beer before the fight started.

And he knocked Torres down in round one too I remember hearing. And he also demanded $10 on top of his purse as he paid for his ticket to get in the Garden that night. Legend has it he said "I'll be damned if I'm paying to watch myself fight"

This happened in MMA as well when Kimbo slice was supposed to fight Ken Shamrock and Shamrock got cut whilst warming up so they got a guy out of the audience who KOd Slice in the first round

Carlton Waren was in the crowd at a show in Battersea, the opponent did not turn up, Billy Aired asked him if he would box the main event, boom, he done the undefeated Branko Pavlovic!!!

orbtastic wrote:There's an interview with Morrison a few years back where he said that Hunter was already showing signs the week of the fight that he wanted out and they had Tim on standby...however, he WAS in the audience and he was sucking back a couple of beers.

This is corroborated by Al Bernstein in his book in some detail.

Did you know that Mike Williams was the other HW (Union Cane) that Morrison won the title from in Rocky 5?

Imagine if the fight had went ahead? talk about life imitating art!

Enzo v Bobby Gunn springs to mind as well[/quote]

didn't he (gunn) win the world bare knuckle championship, it was ment to be filmed by some television company but if it took place i cant find anything on the net of it, anyone know if you can watch it online

TerribleTerry wrote:Tim Tomashek against Tommy Morrison

I was there that night in the use to watch Morrison as Lennox's next oppent. is was a mad night in the mid west