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Deserter wrote: ↑13 Mar 2025, 12:36 Enjoyable read in this week's BN with Scrap Iron Ryan but slightly mystified that given the feature is called 'Where Are They Now?', we somehow get through the entire interview none the wiser

I found out he's 60 now and still wears a flat cap, but... that's it!

Mark (in the hope you're seeing this), love the concept, but given it's featured some really interesting characters, it would be great to hear more about where they are now, their life post-boxing etc, rather than just their memories of the fights they were involved in.

MasterG wrote: ↑13 Mar 2025, 15:38

Deserter wrote: ↑13 Mar 2025, 12:36 Enjoyable read in this week's BN with Scrap Iron Ryan but slightly mystified that given the feature is called 'Where Are They Now?', we somehow get through the entire interview none the wiser

I found out he's 60 now and still wears a flat cap, but... that's it!

Mark (in the hope you're seeing this), love the concept, but given it's featured some really interesting characters, it would be great to hear more about where they are now, their life post-boxing etc, rather than just their memories of the fights they were involved in.

Don't keep us hanging. What is Paul Ryan up to at 60?

He was a great boxer, his fights where always entertaining.

He had 3 great losses, last was Geoff mccreesh. They were great fight.

Deserter wrote: ↑13 Mar 2025, 15:54

MasterG wrote: ↑13 Mar 2025, 15:38

Deserter wrote: ↑13 Mar 2025, 12:36 Enjoyable read in this week's BN with Scrap Iron Ryan but slightly mystified that given the feature is called 'Where Are They Now?', we somehow get through the entire interview none the wiser

I found out he's 60 now and still wears a flat cap, but... that's it!

Mark (in the hope you're seeing this), love the concept, but given it's featured some really interesting characters, it would be great to hear more about where they are now, their life post-boxing etc, rather than just their memories of the fights they were involved in.

Don't keep us hanging. What is Paul Ryan up to at 60?

He was a great boxer, his fights where always entertaining.

He had 3 great losses, last was Geoff mccreesh. They were great fight.

That's exactly what I want to know, but it literally tells you nothing.. says where he used to live when he was growing up and so on, but nothing about where he is now, what he's doing, what' he's been up to since he retired etc.
Some good stuff in there though - thought he'd always been a bazooka of confidence, so was surprised to read about his level of self-doubt going into some of those fights. Comes across as a straight-talking, likeable character.

Delta Jay wrote: ↑13 Mar 2025, 16:47 Before my time but he seems to get a lot of love on here and you lot know your onions.

What’s the best fight to watch first?

Taansend wrote: ↑14 Mar 2025, 03:09 I think I wrote about this on here years ago. They were great days for UK Light Welters. In a decade we had Pat Barrett, Andy Holligan, Ross Hale, Scrap Iron Ryan, Jon Thaxton, Shea Neary, Eamonn Magee, Junior Witter & Ricky Hatton, among others. And most of it was on domestic telly.

Jimmy2025 wrote: ↑14 Mar 2025, 10:27 Most people forget that Patrick was only 27 when he retired. Another one who probably could have been managed better than he was. Tbf he took some managing!

Deserter wrote: ↑14 Mar 2025, 11:59

Jimmy2025 wrote: ↑14 Mar 2025, 10:27 Most people forget that Patrick was only 27 when he retired. Another one who probably could have been managed better than he was. Tbf he took some managing!

I'm definitely among those who'd forgotten! In my head I'd have gone for 32 or something like that. Was a fan of the Black Flash.

On a related note, given we're in wonderful memory lane territory, I'm no fan of Bunce the person, but his piece on Nigel Benn in this week's BN is brilliant. Worth buying for that alone IMO.

Twinkle Toes wrote: ↑13 Mar 2025, 17:32 Paul 'scrap iron' Ryan - What a ring name. Didn't he used to enter the ring with his flat cap, skinhead and the song was any old iron any old iron

He fought Ross Hale which was a big domestic fight at the time and won it in a round. I remember at the time thinking Hale would win that one. It was a big win for Ryan, and he was being lined up for a title shot.

Unfortunately for Ryan in his very next fight he got poleaxed by Thaxton in a round and then again by Holligan after that.

As for Hale he never got back to the pre Ryan heights and both Hale and Ryan finished their careers with losses to Geoff McCreesh looking like shadows of their former selves.

Deserter wrote: ↑13 Mar 2025, 12:36 Enjoyable read in this week's BN with Scrap Iron Ryan but slightly mystified that given the feature is called 'Where Are They Now?', we somehow get through the entire interview none the wiser

I found out he's 60 now and still wears a flat cap, but... that's it!

Mark (in the hope you're seeing this), love the concept, but given it's featured some really interesting characters, it would be great to hear more about where they are now, their life post-boxing etc, rather than just their memories of the fights they were involved in.

Coco wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025, 13:34 I read he was working on the taxis after he finished, and bashed a few customers up for calling him chinny

Taansend wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025, 15:59

Coco wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025, 13:34 I read he was working on the taxis after he finished, and bashed a few customers up for calling him chinny

Drunk bloke in the back of taxi "Mate, you're chinny & you have NO self control"

Scrap Iron "I'll fornicating show you who has no self control"

WALLOP!

Coco wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025, 13:34 I read he was working on the taxis after he finished, and bashed a few customers up for calling him chinny

SeanBrennan wrote: ↑16 Mar 2025, 14:36

Coco wrote: ↑15 Mar 2025, 13:34 I read he was working on the taxis after he finished, and bashed a few customers up for calling him chinny

this is why I am very polite to taxi drivers...