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Which British born fighter won a national title on foreign soil...and also shared his name with a British prime minister?

(The title wasn't a British title)

Russell (Dave).

I can't claim to have known it and it took me a bit of research but here is the answer

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

(just in case someone knows it, don't want to spoil it)

Great question, very interesting

The Wigwam is a boxing Bible.

Well done Wigwam, he actually set a record for fewest fights to his particular title, a record that has now been tied by 4 other fighters :)

I thought it was Maggie Thatcher

Cheers guys, but I just searched his name in boxrec because it sounded right, not before I'd done the same with Gordon Brown and Tony Blair though

Now I'm intrigued as to who he was & how he ended up in Japan.

And where is he now?

Taansend wrote:Now I'm intrigued as to who he was & how he ended up in Japan.

And where is he now?

He had a Japanese parent, I'm unsure which, and he went over there to study.

As far as I'm aware he was forced in to retirement from illness but it seems VERY difficult to find too much information on him other than that.

Strangely just a few years later a Kenyan called Modest Napunyi Oduori tied his record for fewest fights to a Japanese title.

Boxing Prospect wrote:

Taansend wrote:Now I'm intrigued as to who he was & how he ended up in Japan.

And where is he now?

He had a Japanese parent, I'm unsure which, and he went over there to study.

As far as I'm aware he was forced in to retirement from illness but it seems VERY difficult to find too much information on him other than that.

Strangely just a few years later a Kenyan called Modest Napunyi Oduori tied his record for fewest fights to a Japanese title.

Thanks Mate.

One of my favourite books is The Road To Sata by Alan Booth in which he walks the length of Japan. Always been a country that interests me.

I (now) remember Callaghan at the time, a dashing, heavy handed fellow who looked destined for big things; Eric Armit plugged him a few times in BN; he caused quite a stir in Japan where their best fighters are small. I also remember Modest Napunyi, who featured in one of the most memorable finishes ever seen in British rings when he stopped Manchester's Michael Armstrong in Stoke in 1990. After the stoppage, Armstrong was so 'gone' that he began punching referee Billy Rafferty as if the fight was still on. It was Vince Pettaway-Simon Brown on a lesser scale.

I was going to have a spar with Michael Armstrong at Master Toddys gym behind the coach station in Manchester in 87.

palooka wrote:I was going to have a spar with Michael Armstrong at Master Toddys gym behind the coach station in Manchester in 87.

Michael was busy and fit but he lacked natural power and was exposed every time he fought someone with natural ability. You would have done well.

bennie wrote:

palooka wrote:I was going to have a spar with Michael Armstrong at Master Toddys gym behind the coach station in Manchester in 87.

Michael was busy and fit but he lacked natural power and was exposed every time he fought someone with natural ability. You would have done well.

I doubt that, I was crap and had 6 cans on the coach

He had an amazing fade.

I saw him lose to Irwin live and recall him being absolutely blasted by Floyd Havard. Seem to remember it was a one punch KO.

He's in prison at the mo, I think, loan sharking.

Boxing Prospect wrote:

Taansend wrote:Now I'm intrigued as to who he was & how he ended up in Japan.

And where is he now?

He had a Japanese parent, I'm unsure which, and he went over there to study.

As far as I'm aware he was forced in to retirement from illness but it seems VERY difficult to find too much information on him other than that.

Strangely just a few years later a Kenyan called Modest Napunyi Oduori tied his record for fewest fights to a Japanese title.

I would be willing to stake a lot of money that it was his Mum that was Japanese.

expe wrote:

Boxing Prospect wrote:

Taansend wrote:Now I'm intrigued as to who he was & how he ended up in Japan.

And where is he now?

He had a Japanese parent, I'm unsure which, and he went over there to study.

As far as I'm aware he was forced in to retirement from illness but it seems VERY difficult to find too much information on him other than that.

Strangely just a few years later a Kenyan called Modest Napunyi Oduori tied his record for fewest fights to a Japanese title.

I would be willing to stake a lot of money that it was his Mum that was Japanese.

It's a pity that 'columbo' has been taken as a screen name.

Must be out now then!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... gains.html

orbtastic wrote:Must be out now then!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... gains.html

Seems a bit bizarre that he was told to pay nearly £270k or face another 3 years in prison, of which he would probably serve 18 months, so that's £180,000 a year to stay in prison, never really understood when they make demands like that, Curtis Warren was told to pay £200m or another 10 years, probably serve 5, £40,000,000 a year to stay in prison, running the place and still maintaining contact with the outside world through smuggled phones. Best thing to do would be to tell them that until they pay up, they're staying in there.