So that Cleverly opponent...
Posted: 20 Aug 2012, 08:47
...was Wazza creating a load of hype for nothing
You are just joking aren't you?Camcas wrote:Soulan Pownceby :>
Plumber, milkman, taxi driver, doorman?Camcas wrote:Soulan Pownceby :>
Newport Daz wrote:Plumber, milkman, taxi driver, doorman?Camcas wrote:Soulan Pownceby :>
taffytoon wrote:Thought it had been a while for some Clev bashingSo let me get this right, you are all having a pop at an unannounced opponent
How sad.
Counter-puncher wrote:taffytoon wrote:Thought it had been a while for some Clev bashingSo let me get this right, you are all having a pop at an unannounced opponent
How sad.
good point. with the Murderer's Row Cleverley has taken on so far in his stellar world championship career, people have got a flipping nerve to question his matchmaking in any way shape or form.
when the opponent is eventually announced it is bound to be a very creditable opponent with a well-established pedigree, who will once again make us all applaud the daring matchmaking of the UK's least risk-averse Promoter.
Yes but he's just moved to NO1 with WBO so wouldn't be surprisedHorse wrote:You are just joking aren't you?Camcas wrote:Soulan Pownceby :>
Oh dear, it was an educated joke. There really is a good chance Cleverly will fight this person.Camcas wrote:Yes but he's just moved to NO1 with WBO so wouldn't be surprised
Convicted child killer. So I doubt he'll be welcome in the UK.Newport Daz wrote:Plumber, milkman, taxi driver, doorman?Camcas wrote:Soulan Pownceby :>
My little girl is a month old and it made me sick reading that. How the fcuk did he only get 4 years for a crime as disgusting as that??Jeff Thomas wrote:Kiwi's Deadly Force
Killer A Medal Chance
A convicted child killer has been selected in New Zealand's boxing team for the Commonwealth Games.
Soulan Pownceby, 29, is rated one of the Kiwi's main hopes for a boxing medal in Melbourne.
In 1995 Pownceby was sentenced to four years jail for the brutal killing of his five-month daughter Jeanette.
Arthur Tunstall, the driving force behind Australian amateur boxing for half a century, said Pownceby had done his time and was now a free agent again.
"If the New Zealand people pick him their side we have to accept their decision," he said.
New Zealand amatuer boxing boss Keith Walker said Pownceby had been dealt with by the judicial system and was free to leave the country.
"He is deeply remorseful for what happened," he said. "He has done his time so who are we to stand in judgement of him?
"Soul has made a fresh start and kept his nose clean, and I don't see any reason why he would change that now."
Games Minister Justin Madden and Melbourne 2006 chairman Ron Walker said they had no authority over team selection.
"It's a matter for the authority to advise us of their selection and once they're selected, and all the approvals are given, we are very happy for them to compete," Mr Walker said.
A court heard Pownceby's baby was subjected to a short, brutal life of abuse and neglect.
She was healing from six fractured ribs when Pownceby, then 19, killed her.
An autopsy showed the baby girl had a cracked skull and her brain has split.
Evidence at POwnceby's trial described Jeanette as malnourished, with wasted buttocks and thighs.
SHe weighed barely more than her 3kg birth weight and had scabies.
The court heard how Pownceby had shaved off his daughter's eyebrows a few days before she died.
Jeanette's mother was getting takeaway food on the night of October 19, 1994, when the baby was fatally injured at Pownceby's Christchurch home.
An ambulance was called after Pownceby ran next door to get help, saying he found the baby in her cot not breathing. Jeanette died in hospital.
Pownceby told police he had accidentally dropped Jeanette in the shower but during his trial he changed his story to say she had fallen on to the wooden arm of a sofa. He was found guilty of manslaughter.
When he was released from prison in 1998, he took his mother's maiden name, Pownceby, and was paorled to live with a Salvation Army boxing academy coach. After he was released there were four more assault convictions, including one involving a woman.
Pownceby later converted to Catholicism and, according to boxing officials in New Zealand, turned his life around from one of drugs, violence and gang culture.
His selection for the 2004 Athens Olympics sparked outrage among women's groups.
At the time a tearful Pownceby apologised for the horrible crime and accepted responsibility for what he had done.
"I am sorry and I'm just trying to be the best person I can be," the boxer said on TV.
The Department of Immigration said Pownceby would have to pass a good character test to gain a Games visa.
Thanks mateDavidPayne wrote:Lenny - congratulations - and I'm with you on this one. Nathan is a nice guy, but he does need something more significant than thiss.