Boxing Belts For Sale

Londonirish
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Boxing Belts For Sale

Post by Londonirish »

Nicky Cook has 2 belts up for sale, Commonwealth and EBU, starting Bid 2,5k....
Nicky had a very Good career achived high highs was in some very good fights..

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Original-Euro ... SwR29ZCMUL



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-Commo ... SwrhBZCMB0
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Why is it in Skipton? I can't see Cook living there.
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Very sad when fighters have to sell off their belts.
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mickey1975 wrote:Why is it in Skipton? I can't see Cook living there.
Someone else owns them maybe?

£2500 sounds a lot. You'd have thought the sentimental value is all they've got.
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Has anyone ever sold a Londsdale belt?
You would have to be on hard times to sell that beauty. Especially since you have to defend it to own it.
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KiwiRider wrote:Has anyone ever sold a Londsdale belt?
You would have to be on hard times to sell that beauty. Especially since you have to defend it to own it.
Quite a few have come up over the years. I think possibly Bobby Vanzie's was on ebay a few years ago, but I could be wrong.
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Think Gomez sold his and I'm sure hatton bought it and give it him back but not 100%
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I posted Nicky Cooks belts for sale on here a while ago. Location and the eBay name 'Lee Cutler' do seem strange as the seller says "I won this belt against...'

There have been a few boxers forced to sell the Lonsdale belt including Bobby Vanzie, Henry Cooper and Ken Buchanan.
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Greg Houston wrote:
KiwiRider wrote:Has anyone ever sold a Londsdale belt?
You would have to be on hard times to sell that beauty. Especially since you have to defend it to own it.
Quite a few have come up over the years. I think possibly Bobby Vanzie's was on ebay a few years ago, but I could be wrong.

Bobbie Vanzie sold his for religious rather than financial reasons, pretty sure he only got about 4k
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KiwiRider wrote:Has anyone ever sold a Londsdale belt?
You would have to be on hard times to sell that beauty. Especially since you have to defend it to own it.
Kirkland Laing's was on ebay last week, it didn't sell though, starting bid was £16k.
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Coco wrote:
Greg Houston wrote:
KiwiRider wrote:Has anyone ever sold a Londsdale belt?
You would have to be on hard times to sell that beauty. Especially since you have to defend it to own it.
Quite a few have come up over the years. I think possibly Bobby Vanzie's was on ebay a few years ago, but I could be wrong.

Bobbie Vanzie sold his for religious rather than financial reasons, pretty sure he only got about 4k
And now does BKB! Not sure what happened to his religion.
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leejonesjnr wrote:I posted Nicky Cooks belts for sale on here a while ago. Location and the eBay name 'Lee Cutler' do seem strange as the seller says "I won this belt against...'

There have been a few boxers forced to sell the Lonsdale belt including Bobby Vanzie, Henry Cooper and Ken Buchanan.
I take it that Buchanan's belt is the one on the wall in a bar on Rose Street in Edinburgh.
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I always think the EBU belt may stand for something pretty good but the belt itself is utter crap. A metal buckle on a basic strip of leather. I could get that made down the local shoe shop
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pimp wrote:Think Gomez sold his and I'm sure hatton bought it and give it him back but not 100%
Is this true? Great touch by Ricky if so but cant find any links to story to corroborate. Hatton was in his corner of course the night he blitzed Alex Arthur to win the Lonsdale Belt. Best British fight I ever did see.
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tobyh5 wrote:I always think the EBU belt may stand for something pretty good but the belt itself is utter crap. A metal buckle on a basic strip of leather. I could get that made down the local shoe shop


The commonwealth is a Tribble looking belt as well, both great achievement tho to win tho not knocking that at all........
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The belt on the wall in Rose Street Edinburgh was won by Brian Curvis.
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leejonesjnr wrote:I posted Nicky Cooks belts for sale on here a while ago. Location and the eBay name 'Lee Cutler' do seem strange as the seller says "I won this belt against...'

There have been a few boxers forced to sell the Lonsdale belt including Bobby Vanzie, Henry Cooper and Ken Buchanan.
The Internet makes these kind of things very easy.

http://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/4578 ... r_hospice/

Quite creepy, too, how much info is out there.
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Asterix wrote:
leejonesjnr wrote:I posted Nicky Cooks belts for sale on here a while ago. Location and the eBay name 'Lee Cutler' do seem strange as the seller says "I won this belt against...'

There have been a few boxers forced to sell the Lonsdale belt including Bobby Vanzie, Henry Cooper and Ken Buchanan.
The Internet makes these kind of things very easy.

http://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/4578 ... r_hospice/

Quite creepy, too, how much info is out there.
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tobyh5 wrote:I always think the EBU belt may stand for something pretty good but the belt itself is utter crap. A metal buckle on a basic strip of leather. I could get that made down the local shoe shop
Incidentally, I think the much lauded Lonsdale belt looks pretty bad. Like an old pant belt or some worn down bauble I'd find in my grandparents basement...
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TheGoods wrote:
pimp wrote:Think Gomez sold his and I'm sure hatton bought it and give it him back but not 100%
Is this true? Great touch by Ricky if so but cant find any links to story to corroborate. Hatton was in his corner of course the night he blitzed Alex Arthur to win the Lonsdale Belt. Best British fight I ever did see.
Wrong
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AGM wrote:
TheGoods wrote:
pimp wrote:Think Gomez sold his and I'm sure hatton bought it and give it him back but not 100%
Is this true? Great touch by Ricky if so but cant find any links to story to corroborate. Hatton was in his corner of course the night he blitzed Alex Arthur to win the Lonsdale Belt. Best British fight I ever did see.
Wrong


Cheers Arnie
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Londonirish wrote:
Asterix wrote:
leejonesjnr wrote:I posted Nicky Cooks belts for sale on here a while ago. Location and the eBay name 'Lee Cutler' do seem strange as the seller says "I won this belt against...'

There have been a few boxers forced to sell the Lonsdale belt including Bobby Vanzie, Henry Cooper and Ken Buchanan.
The Internet makes these kind of things very easy.

http://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/4578 ... r_hospice/

Quite creepy, too, how much info is out there.
I went to something similar about 3 years ago with Witherspoon fighting a guy Danny who's daughter was I'll .....a good guy is Tim Witherspoon,
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Tim is always around the Leeds area.
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Post by TheGman »

KiwiRider wrote:Has anyone ever sold a Londsdale belt?
You would have to be on hard times to sell that beauty. Especially since you have to defend it to own it.
Henry cooper sold one or two of his belts for 70 grand back in the 1990's,i remember reading about it in a paper and didnt really understand what belt it was at that time
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Post by Greg Houston »

dalcumly wrote:The belt on the wall in Rose Street Edinburgh was won by Brian Curvis.
Thanks for clearing that up. I'd always wondered and when I read about Buchanan having sold his I just made the assumption.
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