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bennie wrote: ↑02 Jul 2020, 06:28 The middleweight division in Los Angeles in 1984 was not brilliant due to a mass boycott. Southpaw Korean Joon-Sup Shin eventually won the gold medal with a close but deserved decision over American Virgil Hill, who later came to the rostrum wearing a ridiculous cowboy hat as if trying to take the play away from the winner. Hill made himself look a plonker but we all know what he went on to achieve and he eliminated our own Brian Schumacher, the British boxing team captain, in a lively encounter early in the Games. Schumacher traded on even terms for two rounds but Hill pulled it with an impressive third, although Schumacher was never off his feet.
Schumacher fought a good fight and was a good fighter but Christie was better and stood a great chance against the 1984 version of Hill in my opinion because Hill never really pushed on in the Games. He looked lucky to get a 4:1 vote over Yugoslav southpaw Damir Skaro in the quarter-finals, a vote booed by the American crowd, and then outscored an unknown Algerian in the semi's, prior to the defeat at the hands of the Korean Shin on a 3:2 vote. Hill struggled to stamp his dominance on Shin, who did nothing brilliantly but everything solidly. Christie surely stood a great chance against Shin, too.
As for the Commonwealth Games two years later (again depleted by a boycott), Rod Douglas represented England at middleweight and boxed brilliantly to win the gold medal. Douglas saw off Canada's Egerton Marcus (cuts) on his way to the final, where he boxed the ears off Australia's aggressive and incredibly durable Jeff Harding, later to win a world title in the pro ranks. For every one punch that Harding landed, Douglas landed five, but the Aussie stormed from the ring in a disgusting display of sportsmanship at the unanimous verdict against him. Christie was every bit as good as Douglas as an amateur, if not better, so one can assume that he strikes gold again but it's all conjecture. Christie chased the money when he turned pro after winning middleweight gold at the European junior championships in 1982 as a 19-year-old, signing with microchip millionaire Burt McCarthy. Money talks.

Flump wrote: ↑02 Jul 2020, 10:56

bennie wrote: ↑02 Jul 2020, 06:28 The middleweight division in Los Angeles in 1984 was not brilliant due to a mass boycott. Southpaw Korean Joon-Sup Shin eventually won the gold medal with a close but deserved decision over American Virgil Hill, who later came to the rostrum wearing a ridiculous cowboy hat as if trying to take the play away from the winner. Hill made himself look a plonker but we all know what he went on to achieve and he eliminated our own Brian Schumacher, the British boxing team captain, in a lively encounter early in the Games. Schumacher traded on even terms for two rounds but Hill pulled it with an impressive third, although Schumacher was never off his feet.
Schumacher fought a good fight and was a good fighter but Christie was better and stood a great chance against the 1984 version of Hill in my opinion because Hill never really pushed on in the Games. He looked lucky to get a 4:1 vote over Yugoslav southpaw Damir Skaro in the quarter-finals, a vote booed by the American crowd, and then outscored an unknown Algerian in the semi's, prior to the defeat at the hands of the Korean Shin on a 3:2 vote. Hill struggled to stamp his dominance on Shin, who did nothing brilliantly but everything solidly. Christie surely stood a great chance against Shin, too.
As for the Commonwealth Games two years later (again depleted by a boycott), Rod Douglas represented England at middleweight and boxed brilliantly to win the gold medal. Douglas saw off Canada's Egerton Marcus (cuts) on his way to the final, where he boxed the ears off Australia's aggressive and incredibly durable Jeff Harding, later to win a world title in the pro ranks. For every one punch that Harding landed, Douglas landed five, but the Aussie stormed from the ring in a disgusting display of sportsmanship at the unanimous verdict against him. Christie was every bit as good as Douglas as an amateur, if not better, so one can assume that he strikes gold again but it's all conjecture. Christie chased the money when he turned pro after winning middleweight gold at the European junior championships in 1982 as a 19-year-old, signing with microchip millionaire Burt McCarthy. Money talks.

And we are lucky to get all this for free, thanks bennie.

TheGoods wrote: ↑02 Jul 2020, 11:45 My cousin boxed for England in Germany with him around 1980, mistakenly drinking his p*ss in the middle of the night thinking it was water. Alan Minter went over there with them apparently. My cousin won the ABA National Junior Championships at Under 57 in 1979 and Errol won Under 67. Said he was a proper talent.

THEBUTCH wrote: ↑02 Jul 2020, 11:54 Errol was helping out at Eltham ABC around 1994/95. Bumped into him a couple of times, always cheerful and joking.

TheGoods wrote: ↑02 Jul 2020, 11:45 My cousin boxed for England in Germany with him around 1980, mistakenly drinking his p*ss in the middle of the night thinking it was water. Alan Minter went over there with them apparently. My cousin won the ABA National Junior Championships at Under 57 in 1979 and Errol won Under 67. Said he was a proper talent.