Wayne Rooney KO'd in friendly spar

[stevieb_8006]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TYnzrovahvk

[palooka]

Ha ha! Feet in the air! Thought he'd be tougher than that.

[taffytoon]

Things like this always get out of hand; I think he slipped as he only had socks on and KO'd himself on the kitchen table when his head hit it. As for thinking he would be tougher than that He did a bit as an amateur; why do you think he went into football I thought his syrup would have soften the blow but he obviously needs some more mohair added

[Coco]

Def looks chinny!
I thought he had claimed he boxed for years as a schoolboy?

[Glass Joe]

the rematch will be in he summer live on sky box office only 19.99

[Emmseegee]

Doesnt look like he has done much boxing previously to be honest but think the previous post is correct. Its a combination of being off balance, slipping with socks on and hitting his head on a chair that really knocked him out. Not exactly correct to say that a single jab knocked him out. Lol.

I understand that boys will be boys and have a carry on, I dont have an issue with what they were doing but was anything good ever gonna come out of letting someone video that? Quite irresponsible of someone so high profile.

Bardsley must be having a rigjt chuckle to himself, overnight sensation.
The songs on the stands are gonna be hilarious.

[handsofstone]

Bardsley vs Flintoff coming to a station near you

[Monte Fisto]

He must have hit his head on the chair, he definitely got off balance, but id be shocked if that put him out without banging his head on the chair.

Either that or hies just messing and isn't out.

[Stuarty]

You'd think with a coupon like that he'd be used to getting hit! Face like an angry cabbage!

[Monte Fisto]

You'd think with a coupon like that he'd be used to getting hit! Face like an angry cabbage!

I may have to pay you a royalty for that phrase

[bigjack]

You'd think with a coupon like that he'd be used to getting hit! Face like an angry cabbage!

Ha ha he does look like one of those cabbage patch dolls from the 80s

[hurlock]

Looks like he was toying while the other guy going for it abit & obviously both pi$$ed lol!! He did look out but it's clear he fell back on to the chair lol & now everyone is going to think he's a proper helmet sparked with a jab hahaha

[lillywhite14]

Def looks chinny!
I thought he had claimed he boxed for years as a schoolboy?

I think it's his fans that claim that. It's a case of one of his uncles being a trainer/helping out with training? at a local club and people putting two and two together!

[rhino222]

if you are knocked out you don't put your arms down to cushion your fall!

[fighting_irish]

i'd say they were acting the clown and wazza is taking the mickey, also he knows damn well u uploaded the video as it was in his house and he would have known who was there recording it, tabloid gold,

[TerribleTerry]

Fair play to Rooney his goal celebration today was class..

https://youtu.be/s6CNPuoPcok

[Sklar]

Looks like he slipped off balance and then pretended to be sparko for a second, hence why the clip ends so sharply and doesn't show frantic efforts to resuscitate him. Like Rhino says his hands went down to break his fall.

[Emmseegee]

I reckon he was out, his head is under the chair as if the back of his head connected with it, whipped his neck forward then rested where we saw it.
Either way, fook it.

Id happily have people call me chinny if I was captain for my club and country.

[Controversial]

slipping with socks on

Those aren't socks, looks like he's wearing deck shoes or something similar

[SNG]

Def looks chinny!
I thought he had claimed he boxed for years as a schoolboy?

I think it's his fans that claim that. It's a case of one of his uncles being a trainer/helping out with training? at a local club and people putting two and two together!

lol. Really?

Why would his fans claim that? Does his boxing history make him a better footballer? The lad probably did box as a kid, doesny mean anything does it?

[Controversial]

Def looks chinny!
I thought he had claimed he boxed for years as a schoolboy?

I think it's his fans that claim that. It's a case of one of his uncles being a trainer/helping out with training? at a local club and people putting two and two together!

lol. Really?

Why would his fans claim that? Does his boxing history make him a better footballer? The lad probably did box as a kid, doesny mean anything does it?

Doesn't sound like boxing was anymore than a hobby, might of done it for a few years but not sure he was a schoolboy champ......

Manchester United ace Wayne Rooney has credited his boxing background to his on-field success.

Rooney, 22, said: "I think my boxing training was beneficial in my development as a footballer, especially breaking through to the Premier League at such a young age.

"I needed that extra bit of strength that the boxing training had given me.

"It made it easier to play than it might have been and it's helped me with the way my game is now."

Rooney has been a boxing fan since he started primary school, always watching the big fights on TV.

He trained with the dream that he might one day make it as a professional if he did not break through in football.

Rooney added: "All through my life - from the ages of six, seven and eight - when big fights were on television, I used to stay up with my dad to watch them.

"I've always loved watching boxing and I went boxing training for about three or four years when I was younger. It's a sport I've always been involved in. I was doing both boxing and football training at one stage when I was about 15.

"But Everton, who I was with at the time, said I had to concentrate on one of them and I opted for football."

[reggaereggae]

It looks like a Ko, but then he is off balance and there's a possibility that that he thought quickly and pretended to be ko'd.

The fact the video ends there is very suspicious - he might have jumped straight up afterwards and laughed.

If it is real he's chinnier than Glass Joe. And he was knocked out by a jab thrown by a non boxer wearing pink gloves.

However seeing how easily footballers fall over it might just be a natural reaction.

[Ricky_]

clealry a piss take, no way that shot put his lights out, he broke his fall and is lying like he's dead. If he wasn't as dumb as a box of rocks i'd say that it was a genius PR stunt.

[ScottDetonator]

He'd get a right roasting of Ferguson if he was still in charge. If he'd fell and banged his massive 'ead, he could've been out for a while or worse.

[lillywhite14]

Def looks chinny!
I thought he had claimed he boxed for years as a schoolboy?

I think it's his fans that claim that. It's a case of one of his uncles being a trainer/helping out with training? at a local club and people putting two and two together!

lol. Really?

Why would his fans claim that? Does his boxing history make him a better footballer? The lad probably did box as a kid, doesny mean anything does it?

Of course it don't mean anything. By his fans I meant footie fans, you hear it with Roy Keane 'he was a great boxer as a kid', turns out he had a couple of bouts when he was about 10 years old! It adds to the myth I guess.

Rooney himself seems to confirm it anyway