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With Robbie Turley facing Anselmo Moreno in Sheffield on March 28th it got me thinking what is the strangest fight you have seen in the UK?

James Toney vs Matt Legg in PF

handsofstone wrote:James Toney vs Matt Legg in PF

Great shout haha. Hasn't been that many in recent years has there?

Barry Jones v Acelino Freitas was a surprise.

Barrera v wenton

Sergio Martinez vs Richard Wiiliams

Foreman v ?

Johnny Tapia fought over right? Can't remember who against

palooka wrote:Barry Jones v Acelino Freitas was a surprise.

Also a surprise that jones decked him!

Often forget Mcclellan won the WBO middle strap over here

handsofstone wrote:Johnny Tapia fought over right? Can't remember who against

Some import at the York Hall, along with Julio Pablo Chacon-Victor Polo, Harry Simon against Enrique Areco has to be up there too, Frank went through a weird phase around 2000.

Winky Wright v Steve "the Viking" Foster

I think it was an Italian who fought Robert quiroga, in Sunderland of all places.

I know they weren't massive names but Kotelnik vs M'Baye over here was a strange one I thought.

And a bit of a robbery if I remember correctly?

Steve Little out hustling Michael Nunn on the undercard of a Nigel Benn fight.

I was a huge fan of Nunn when he was up and coming but knew he was a loon by then. Immensely talented...

I remember watching Sharmba Mitchell v Mike Stewart at the MEN on a Hatton undercard. I know they were being prepped for a future opponent for Hatton but it was still a bit weird to see 2 top 10 Americans fighting for a world title over here

I was sure I had read that Sugar Ray Robinson fought in Paisley, Scotland before.
I just double checked to find out that he did and also lost.

I know he went around a lot on the road to make extra money but as someone who knows paisley reasonably well its just hard to image a fighter of that status ever fighting there....

Liles/Littles II

John Tate, Jimmy Thunder and John Ruiz at the York Hall

Frankie Randall/Edwin Rosario at the York Hall

Angel Vasquez on a cold night in March in Derby.

Corrie sanders fought in Darlington once. How he ended up there I will never know!

Butterbean getting kayoed in a round at a nightclub in Blackpool.That was pretty effin random?!

LancashireLoyal wrote:Butterbean getting kayoed in a round at a nightclub in Blackpool.That was pretty effin random?!

He had knocked my beer over

such a random fight maybe Moreno being looked at for Jamie McDonnell as Gavin is on the card?

Muhammad Ali against Al "Blue" Lewis in a near-empty stadium in Dublin in 1972. Ali claimed he was Irish, caught a cold, didn't iron his shorts, floored Lewis for at least 15 seconds in the fifth round and overcame a sticky patch in the eighth and ninth to finish off Lewis in the 11th. Nobody cared.

The winner is Robert Quiroga v Juan Polo Perez in Sunderland.