Is Andy Lee the first traveller world champion??

[hurlock]

There hadn't been much press about it

[mickey1975]

There hadn't been much press about it

Fury named a few others, I can't remember who, but they were French and I think he said the Hiltons from Canada. Fury knows his boxing.

[orbtastic]

Fabrice Benichou (sp)?

[Datsue]

There hadn't been much press about it

Fury named a few others, I can't remember who, but they were French and I think he said the Hiltons from Canada. Fury knows his boxing.

I'm not sure if Benichou was Romani (though I've heard conflicting things about his ancestry, I think he was just born to folk who worked in a circus) but people have told me that Laurent Boudouani was half-Algerian half-Gitan.

& the Italian Silvio Branco's Romani. Fought Woodhall waaaaaaaay back for the Euro middle title & in middle age won a portion of the light-heavy world title.

[orbtastic]

That was the other fella I was thinking of.

I know it was said he (Fabrice) was from a circus family (so was Jorge Paez!) but I remember him being described as a gypsy.

Jem Mace, it would seem there's a lot of controversy about whether he "was" or wasn't.

[expe]

There hadn't been much press about it

Fury named a few others, I can't remember who, but they were French and I think he said the Hiltons from Canada. Fury knows his boxing.

Think it was Fabrice Tiozzo.

Were the Hilton's actually travellers, or did they just move around a lot? Never been able to find much that says they were, just a bit about them moving around in a trailer in the early days of Matthew's professional career and the book Dave's daughters wrote about him abusing them was in French, which doesn't suggest traveller to me either. I think Lee's the first Irish traveller world champion but there's probably been others in the past from different countries.

[orbtastic]

I don't think the Tiozzos are Gitans.

[reggaereggae]

According to the Hilton documentary they are of Scottish origin (known) but they are actually Jews?!?

I had never heard this before....

[1 nut]

WHO CARES
HE WILL LOSE IN HIS NEXT FIGHT

[dutchie]

WHO CARES
HE WILL LOSE IN HIS NEXT FIGHT

I think you must have been in a circus as well,because with that coment your acting the clown