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Publishing a book next year for which I would really like the author to interview Ernie shavers.

I have number of contacts via after dinner speaking agencies. However, if anyone had any more direct contact, I would be inordinately grateful and my largesse in free bookitude would know no bounds ( not strictly true but I could certainly stretch to a copy of the 1974 Pitkins annual )

Thanks in anticipation

Slapsie

slapsie did you finsih that stone roses book?

if so want a sale?

Thanks, Terence. Will do

J - THE MAKING OF THE STONE ROSES is available in all good bookstores. However, I did promise/threaten to send you one, so let me have an address and I can send a copy. Very good it is too

Slapsie

thanks mate that fine though save ya the postage and that wasnt out for a freebie just wondered if it was out.

thanks for the kind offer though, I'll have a look for it this weekend!!

nice one mate.

Shavers used to be at quite a few boxing matches in the Ohio-Pennsylvania area a few years back, is he now living over there?

Justin wrote:Shavers used to be at quite a few boxing matches in the Ohio-Pennsylvania area a few years back, is he now living over there?

Last i heard/seen he was working as a greeter at Yates' in Liverpool City Centre.

You wouldn't want to be the scally who started to mess with him, not knowing who he was...

mercman wrote:Crikey. Somebody would be in for a very nasty shock.........

they wouldnt feel a thing... just zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

knockout wrote:

mercman wrote:Crikey. Somebody would be in for a very nasty shock.........

they wouldnt feel a thing... just zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Then take a trip to Blackpool to see if that is where their teeth had landed.

Oh I'll bet he's pretty well known around the area, he married a liverpudlian woman after all.

Who'd have thought it, from alabama to liverpool. Even though he is 60 now I bet that particular branch of Yates' doesn't get too much trouble.

This one's for Mr McNeilly and Knockout, do you remember Klaus from the bar at uni?

jamesmcdonnell wrote:Oh I'll bet he's pretty well known around the area, he married a liverpudlian woman after all.

Who'd have thought it, from alabama to liverpool. Even though he is 60 now I bet that particular branch of Yates' doesn't get too much trouble.

This one's for Mr McNeilly and Knockout, do you remember Klaus from the bar at uni?

Good old Klaus!!! nice guy!!! his missus worked behin the bar didnt she???

jamesmcdonnell wrote:Oh I'll bet he's pretty well known around the area, he married a liverpudlian woman after all.

Who'd have thought it, from alabama to liverpool. Even though he is 60 now I bet that particular branch of Yates' doesn't get too much trouble.

This one's for Mr McNeilly and Knockout, do you remember Klaus from the bar at uni?

Its a nice place to drink and not known for being a trouble spot, i wonder why

Neri1983 wrote:

jamesmcdonnell wrote:Oh I'll bet he's pretty well known around the area, he married a liverpudlian woman after all.

Who'd have thought it, from alabama to liverpool. Even though he is 60 now I bet that particular branch of Yates' doesn't get too much trouble.

This one's for Mr McNeilly and Knockout, do you remember Klaus from the bar at uni?

Its a nice place to drink and not known for being a trouble spot, i wonder why

To be honest there are probably a few factors....
Obviously Shavers is a HARD HARD man....but generally gansgsters love boxers and people probably know if the mess with Shavers they may get fucked up big time by the local mobsters..

knockout wrote:

jamesmcdonnell wrote:Oh I'll bet he's pretty well known around the area, he married a liverpudlian woman after all.

Who'd have thought it, from alabama to liverpool. Even though he is 60 now I bet that particular branch of Yates' doesn't get too much trouble.

This one's for Mr McNeilly and Knockout, do you remember Klaus from the bar at uni?

Good old Klaus!!! nice guy!!! his missus worked behin the bar didnt she???

Yep, he was a hard old fornicator as well. Once saw him catch someone's fist in mid air and bend them down to the floor, was quite impressive. Considering the guy was in his 60's he was in pretty amazing nick.

Always reminded me of windor davies without the tash.

Apparently though they got rid of him in the end after a fight broke out and he failed to stop it, and someone (that little wanker fizz) kicked him in the head.

They then got in some lunatic ex-squaddie with a hair trigger temper from what I hear, who used to lose it at the drop of a hat.

Fizz... name rings a bell but cannot put a face to it.... Little asian kid??

Just checking Shaver's record. I clean forgot he beat Bugner!

There are some very interesting stats on there. Taking Holmes the distance ( the next fight after doing the same to Ali ) and taking Holmes 11 rounds the next time they fought

His record smacks of inconsistency rescued by a KO punch

Slapsie

I met him around 1988 at York Hall Bethnal Green. Nice guy, very relaxed. He seemed to be very much into religion at the time - thought he might go the Foreman route and become a preacher.

Never seen anyone hit so hard and get up off the canvas as Holmes in the 2nd Shavers fight.
9 times out of 10 that fight would've been stopped as Holmes reeled around the ring after getting up, and Shavers wouldv'e been champ.

knockout wrote:Fizz... name rings a bell but cannot put a face to it.... Little asian kid??

Yep, that's the twat, hung around with a right bunch of cock-ends.

You talking about the University of Essex, James?

jamesmcdonnell wrote:

knockout wrote:

jamesmcdonnell wrote:Oh I'll bet he's pretty well known around the area, he married a liverpudlian woman after all.

Who'd have thought it, from alabama to liverpool. Even though he is 60 now I bet that particular branch of Yates' doesn't get too much trouble.

This one's for Mr McNeilly and Knockout, do you remember Klaus from the bar at uni?

Good old Klaus!!! nice guy!!! his missus worked behin the bar didnt she???

Yep, he was a hard old fornicator as well. Once saw him catch someone's fist in mid air and bend them down to the floor, was quite impressive. Considering the guy was in his 60's he was in pretty amazing nick.

Always reminded me of windor davies without the tash.

Apparently though they got rid of him in the end after a fight broke out and he failed to stop it, and someone (that little wanker fizz) kicked him in the head.

They then got in some lunatic ex-squaddie with a hair trigger temper from what I hear, who used to lose it at the drop of a hat.

Ferris Bueller wrote:You talking about the University of Essex, James?

jamesmcdonnell wrote:

knockout wrote: Good old Klaus!!! nice guy!!! his missus worked behin the bar didnt she???

Yep, he was a hard old fornicator as well. Once saw him catch someone's fist in mid air and bend them down to the floor, was quite impressive. Considering the guy was in his 60's he was in pretty amazing nick.

Always reminded me of windor davies without the tash.

Apparently though they got rid of him in the end after a fight broke out and he failed to stop it, and someone (that little wanker fizz) kicked him in the head.

They then got in some lunatic ex-squaddie with a hair trigger temper from what I hear, who used to lose it at the drop of a hat.

Yeah Uni of Essex....

That Fizz was a cock... took a bit of gear and thought he could take on the world... My Friend Vinny (the chinese guy) gave him a bitch slap one night.... when he had sobered up in the morning he came round and apologised...

mercman wrote:

I clean forgot he beat Bugner!

A case of an irresistable force against an immovable object with this one. Some say Shavers knocked Bugner out but that is not true. Although Shavers did have him down Bugner got back up and it was, in fact, a stoppage on cuts.

I remember that Bugner cliamed he was butted...