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Movie comes out here in the States on November 1th.

For those of you over 40ish you may have followed the career of the Pazmanian Devil.

Without looking at his career closely he was (from memory) a decent Lightweight/LightWelter who retired after a decent career only to have TWO life changing events happen.

He had a mad car accident & also the bank which held his savings went bankrupt. I know the latter sounds weird but my memory from 20 odd years ago tells me that he would only get 10% of his money back

After being told he wouldn't walk again he ended up winning 'titles' at Light Middle & Super Middle including a trio of well paying (I assume) bouts against Roberto Duran (twice) & Roy Jones Jnr.

I remember being dubious of the serious of his injuries at the time but I have to admit I am tainted because my mum "broke her back" when I was about 12/13 & within a month I was smuggling flasks of martini disguised as tea into her room. She was also told she'd never walk again - although she is a very f*cking strong Cork bird. 79 years old & still doing a couple of bottles of wine a night.

Anyway, I love Boxing & dislike Baseball but I love Baseball films & am bored by Boxing movies.

Taansend wrote:Movie comes out here in the States on November 1th.

For those of you over 40ish you may have followed the career of the Pazmanian Devil.

Without looking at his career closely he was (from memory) a decent Lightweight/LightWelter who retired after a decent career only to have TWO life changing events happen.

He had a mad car accident & also the bank which held his savings went bankrupt. I know the latter sounds weird but my memory from 20 odd years ago tells me that he would only get 10% of his money back

After being told he wouldn't walk again he ended up winning 'titles' at Light Middle & Super Middle including a trio of well paying (I assume) bouts against Roberto Duran (twice) & Roy Jones Jnr.

I remember being dubious of the serious of his injuries at the time but I have to admit I am tainted because my mum "broke her back" when I was about 12/13 & within a month I was smuggling flasks of martini disguised as tea into her room. She was also told she'd never walk again - although she is a very f*cking strong Cork bird. 79 years old & still doing a couple of bottles of wine a night.

Anyway, I love Boxing & dislike Baseball but I love Baseball films & am bored by Boxing movies.

I remember seeing video of Paz training with Lou Duva, whislt wearing a cage on his head to stabilise his spine.

Good little piece on him in boxing news couple of weeks back.

I watched Vinny train in Vegas for the Mayweather fight and he allowed me to have some great photos and autographs,such a great guy.

jamesmcdonnell wrote:
I remember seeing video of Paz training with Lou Duva, whislt wearing a cage on his head to stabilise his spine.

I remember that - he was proper shadow boxing full-on, twisting and turning etc. with a cage on his head, I thought he was nuts !

bigjack wrote:I watched Vinny train in Vegas for the Mayweather fight and he allowed me to have some great photos and autographs,such a great guy.

There is a movie trailer on this webpage :

http://www.newsday.com/sports/boxing/bl ... 1.12619788?

I remember Paz pretty well, it was the era I fell into the sport as a teenager. But another casual look at his record has a few little gems.

Beat Joe Frazier Jnr, which then made me click on his record to find he lost to Peter Eubanks (brother of course of Thimply the Best) who as most know also beat Barry McGuigan. Forgotten brother Peter has a couple tidy wins on a scrappy record with a win over Mo Hussein who I always thought was half decent