BoxRec

Sorry if already done. Watch right to the end.

http://youtu.be/yINeFX-SC4s

Ah the legendary Charlie Zelanoff. Shot his wad inside 10 seconds and then was on his way to a first round knockout defeat against a limping OAP but actual bonafide fighter.

To crawl out the ring then run back in and cheapshot a man- the young man who jumps in and beats him senseless is totally justified.

One way of looking at it. Another is the disgrace of a boxing gym cruelly laughing at a vulnerable kid with clear problems and hoping he gets knocked out off a former professional. Then beating the shit out of him when it doesn't go as they expected. I think its pretty disgusting.

didn't this happen a couple of years ago?

they shouldnt have let him spar full stop.... clearly tapped that lad

Mensa07 wrote:didn't this happen a couple of years ago?

It did indeed. Deffo over a year since I first watched it. He got off lightly.

The lad was/is a pro boxer he had 1 fight and got disqualified in the first round

Its an old clip. Pretty sure the kid has a long history of mental illness .. I gotta agree with Trojans44 view on this.

Trojans44 wrote:One way of looking at it. Another is the disgrace of a boxing gym cruelly laughing at a vulnerable kid with clear problems and hoping he gets knocked out off a former professional. Then beating the poo out of him when it doesn't go as they expected. I think its pretty disgusting.

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Trojans44 wrote:One way of looking at it. Another is the disgrace of a boxing gym cruelly laughing at a vulnerable kid with clear problems and hoping he gets knocked out off a former professional. Then beating the poo out of him when it doesn't go as they expected. I think its pretty disgusting.

Totally agree.

If you turn up at a boxing gym sounding off and demanding to fight aged old fighters, then the kind of men you are going to find in there are not going to say, "hold on- that's Charlie Zelanoff, the rumoured to be mentally ill guy who lives an online fantasy existence as a championship boxer, we better call his parents and let him know he is on the loose again." Boxing gyms attract all manner of strange characters, anyone showing up and behaving disrespectfully and looking for violence will get exactly what they are looking for.

loaded_gloves wrote:If you turn up at a boxing gym sounding off and demanding to fight aged old fighters, then the kind of men you are going to find in there are not going to say, "hold on- that's Charlie Zelanoff, the rumoured to be mentally ill guy who lives an online fantasy existence as a championship boxer, we better call his parents and let him know he is on the loose again." Boxing gyms attract all manner of strange characters, anyone showing up and behaving disrespectfully and looking for violence will get exactly what they are looking for.

That's very true. They're tough enviroments to begin with and there's probably a fair number of boxers who have some kind of mental health problem themself whether it be diagnosed or not.

Trojans44 wrote:One way of looking at it. Another is the disgrace of a boxing gym cruelly laughing at a vulnerable kid with clear problems and hoping he gets knocked out off a former professional. Then beating the poo out of him when it doesn't go as they expected. I think its pretty disgusting.

The previous posters have it right. Why should they know who Charlie Z is, much less gauge his state of mind? All they sure was some cocky bastard waltz into the gym, talk smack, and sucker-punch the gym's figurehead. That's never going to go down well.

oliverfennell wrote:

Trojans44 wrote:One way of looking at it. Another is the disgrace of a boxing gym cruelly laughing at a vulnerable kid with clear problems and hoping he gets knocked out off a former professional. Then beating the poo out of him when it doesn't go as they expected. I think its pretty disgusting.

The previous posters have it right. Why should they know who Charlie Z is, much less gauge his state of mind? All they sure was some cocky bastard waltz into the gym, talk smack, and sucker-punch the gym's figurehead. That's never going to go down well.

That's true, even though I didn't enjoy seeing the fool being leathered.

Whenever you enter a new gym you expect them to go hard on you, this is boxing, they want to see what you are made of and it's about bragging rights, typically you earn the place you want to skip and the bag you want to hit.
They could have gone much harder than him, he got lucky in the light sparring session they had. Things like this teach you whether you should be in a gym or not. It is a professional sport. If you want someone to hold the bag for you, do pads etc and give you easy sparring, you go to a white collar fitness centre, where you pay the extra bucks but you get your ass licked being told you good you are etc.
If you want to be a pro boxing, you don't give it the big one, you learn your trade, take your lumps, sweat blood and tears and have fights. If you can't handle light sparring how can you have a bout. Pro gyms condition you to fight.