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Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 12 Sep 2024, 03:50
by MacTavish
Steve Bunce’s new book out today. Looks a good read, anyone getting it prepared to give a review here?
Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 12 Sep 2024, 04:58
by dookus
only interested if there's a full account of the Uganda trip
Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 12 Sep 2024, 05:08
by Counter-puncher
dookus wrote: ↑12 Sep 2024, 04:58
only interested if there's a full account of the Uganda trip

Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 12 Sep 2024, 05:20
by Coco
dookus wrote: ↑12 Sep 2024, 04:58
only interested if there's a full account of the Uganda trip

Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 12 Sep 2024, 07:52
by black panther
dookus wrote: ↑12 Sep 2024, 04:58
only interested if there's a full account of the Uganda trip
Only if I receive a copy signed with a biro pen from said trip.
Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 12 Sep 2024, 08:02
by dookus
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Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 12 Sep 2024, 12:25
by margaret thatcher
is there a foreword by big dave from sheffield?
Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 12 Sep 2024, 14:24
by dookus
margaret thatcher wrote: ↑12 Sep 2024, 12:25
is there a foreword by big dave from sheffield?
if you order a copy, Big Dave will personally turn up at your house to deliver it
Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 12 Sep 2024, 14:34
by Coco
But then the said posters didn't come back, off the top of my head, Bricks and a couple others, maybe they are missing........
Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 12 Sep 2024, 14:36
by Coco
Supremo and Boxing Knockout.......
Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 12 Sep 2024, 14:57
by Boxerbeetle
Didn't realise this had come out, I'll be buying for sure, really enjoyed his last book.
Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 12 Sep 2024, 15:33
by orbtastic
Andy Clarke's Knockout looks decent. Also didn't realise Maurice Hope had a book out.
Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 12 Sep 2024, 15:39
by mickey1975
If its as good as The Fixer, I'm in.
Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 12 Sep 2024, 15:42
by dookus
Coco wrote: ↑12 Sep 2024, 14:36
Supremo and Boxing Knockout.......
Supremo did come back and post a few times, but stopped in 2022 after the Taylor v Catterall I decision:
Supremo wrote: ↑27 Feb 2022, 03:00
I used to be obsessed by boxing. Boxed myself for years, used to watch multiple fights a day, read every magazine around, on every forum talking boxing, stil coach.
However, in the last 3 or 4 years I've lost all my love for watching it, i would now struggle/be completely unable to tell you the top man in most divisions.
I watched that fight last night though and it completely reinforced why I barely show any interest in the sport anymore.
An absolute robbery. Incompetence could maybe be identified if you were generous and if it was one judge, but when it's 2 then it's corruption pure and simple.
I don't want to invest any of my time in a sport like that.
Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 12 Sep 2024, 15:49
by Boxerbeetle
mickey1975 wrote: ↑12 Sep 2024, 15:39
If its as good as The Fixer, I'm in.
Impossible, nothing is as good as The Fixer.
Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 14 Sep 2024, 16:07
by SeanBrennan
ordered it, he's boxing history book is really good.
Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 15 Sep 2024, 17:31
by Delta Jay
He’s a proper silly Billy but you don’t half warm to it. I’ll order it on payday myself. His 5 live podcast is always hilarious when you can tell his interviewee is just cracking up at his daftness
Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 15 Sep 2024, 17:35
by SeanBrennan
I can't help but like him, he boxed himself and his knowledge is excellent.
Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 15 Sep 2024, 22:29
by margaret thatcher
ya and if you hurt his feelings online he'll send 'big dave from sheffield' after your arse

Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 16 Sep 2024, 04:42
by Coco
margaret thatcher wrote: ↑15 Sep 2024, 22:29
ya and if you hurt his feelings online he'll send 'big dave from sheffield' after your arse
If I remember correctly, Big Dave is the grass who supplied Bunce with their real names before these guys disappeared
Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 16 Sep 2024, 18:07
by SeanBrennan
margaret thatcher wrote: ↑15 Sep 2024, 22:29
ya and if you hurt his feelings online he'll send 'big dave from sheffield' after your arse
I am intrigued, who is Big Dave from Sheffield?
Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 16 Sep 2024, 18:08
by margaret thatcher
SeanBrennan wrote: ↑16 Sep 2024, 18:07
margaret thatcher wrote: ↑15 Sep 2024, 22:29
ya and if you hurt his feelings online he'll send 'big dave from sheffield' after your arse
I am intrigued, who is Big Dave from Sheffield?
bunce used to post here from time to time. one time he popped up to take issue with what some posters were saying, and made a threat that a 'big dave from sheffield' would sort them out if they continued
hopefully bunce isnt such an utter baby online any more. for a supposedly affable man of the people you'd think he wouldnt be as up tight as he is. this is the same guy who got into a shouting match with a teenager at a school rugby game and then moaned about it on radio, mocked and belittled a chronically ill woman, threatned to sue the fans who spearheaded the campaign to bring him back on sentanta, absolutely went off and maligned a reporter who said jones-lebedev 2 was off and when it turned out to be true he just double downed and bitched some more.
a real boxin man, a real twat too
Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 16 Sep 2024, 18:15
by SeanBrennan
margaret thatcher wrote: ↑16 Sep 2024, 18:08
SeanBrennan wrote: ↑16 Sep 2024, 18:07
margaret thatcher wrote: ↑15 Sep 2024, 22:29
ya and if you hurt his feelings online he'll send 'big dave from sheffield' after your arse
I am intrigued, who is Big Dave from Sheffield?
bunce used to post here from time to time. one time he popped up to take issue with what some posters were saying, and made a threat that a 'big dave from sheffield' would sort them out if they continued
hopefully bunce isnt such an utter baby online any more. for a supposedly affable man of the people you'd think he wouldnt be so up tight
Thanks for explaining. How silly. He once made the papers once for falling out with a pupil at his son's rugby game once too, he has form for being less than stellar
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/ ... 44242.html
I do like his writing though.
Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 16 Sep 2024, 18:18
by margaret thatcher
lol ya, he's an uptight little baby who throws his rattle out the pram very easily
i agree though, he's had a very nice career and made good contributions to boxing
Re: Around the world in 80 fights
Posted: 16 Sep 2024, 18:46
by SeanBrennan
amen to that.