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Some fighters are reputed to be amazing in the gym, but for whatever reason don't reproduce their form for real. Danny Williams is an example, but we did get a glimpse of what he can do against Tyson. Can you think of any others...?

Merthyr`s Simon Collins.
I am not saying he was world class but he was 100 times better in the gym than he was come fight time.

There was a documentary on BBC Wales a few years back on Dai Gardiner and he showed one of his fighters with a 0-14 record at the time. Gardiner said he would hold his own in heavy sparring with his better fighters - Gardiner couldn't understand it.

stujones wrote:There was a documentary on BBC Wales a few years back on Dai Gardiner and he showed one of his fighters with a 0-14 record at the time. Gardiner said he would hold his own in heavy sparring with his better fighters - Gardiner couldn't understand it.

The fighter he was talking about was probably Andrew Bloomer. He still trains at the gym and spars with the guys.

Dynamite Dean Phillips wrote:The fighter he was talking about was probably Andrew Bloomer. He still trains at the gym and spars with the guys.

I was there the night a teenage Naseem Hamed stopped Bloomer on the undercard of the first Benn V Malinga fight in Birmingham.

Didn't the BBBofC try to takes Bloomers licemce away from him soon after that?

Sounds like the fella, in the Documentary Gardiner was saying the Board were pressing him to do medical after medical.

American Heavyweight journeyman of the early 90's Elijah Tillery had a repuation of being a very tough gym fighter.