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Can any of you boys remember that fateful night when danny boy carring lightning in both hands gave the big birminham open air crowd a wonderful night with danny`s typical 2 fisted action...how i wish we had a crowd pleaser like that around now.

tigerpomfret wrote:Can any of you boys remember that fateful night when danny boy carring lightning in both hands gave the big birminham open air crowd a wonderful night with danny`s typical 2 fisted action...how i wish we had a crowd pleaser like that around now.

Was that the night they had a leprachaun singing the national anthem?

mercman wrote:I haven't seen the Bodell fight but I can remember Richard Dunn knocking McAlinden out

Yeah Dunn and many others. Pomfret forgot to mention Danny's glass chin.

tigerpomfret wrote:Can any of you boys remember that fateful night when danny boy carring lightning in both hands gave the big birminham open air crowd a wonderful night with danny`s typical 2 fisted action...how i wish we had a crowd pleaser like that around now.

Funny how you sing Danny boys praises yet called Henry Cooper and glass chined bum!??? :x ..... you're not Brian London by any chance are you???.... 8)

tigerpomfret wrote:Can any of you boys remember that fateful night when danny boy carring lightning in both hands gave the big birminham open air crowd a wonderful night with danny`s typical 2 fisted action...how i wish we had a crowd pleaser like that around now.

I remember that wild, brawl quite well. McAlinden and Bodell didn't even try and show the most basic points of the sweet science and just went for each other like two drunken baroom brawlers arguing over a busty blonde.

A few years after retiring there was a lot of talk of McAlinden fighting the Lenny McClean in an unlicenced fight but it remained just talk. I understand McAlinden still lives in Coventry and sometimes helps out at his local amateur gym.

Interesting to note McAlinden beat Muhammad Alis brother over 6 rounds on the undercard of 'The Fight'.

Danny McAlinden vs Matt Skelton anyone?

K.O. Joe, Do you know whatever happened to MCcleans rival Roy Shaw?had one pro fight under the name Roy West I believe.

expug wrote:K.O. Joe, Do you know whatever happened to MCcleans rival Roy Shaw?had one pro fight under the name Roy West I believe.

Expug

Roy 'Prettyboy' Shaw is still very much alive. I saw a documentary on him about 18 months ago called Hard B@stards. Even though he is 70 this year, he still trains 3/4 times a week and looks a handfull. He also still has those cold killer shark eyes.

Right up untill McClean was diagnosed with terminal lung and brain cancer Shaw was still calling him out for a bare-knuckle rematch.

Amazing... Thanks alot K.O. Joe.

Anyone remember Neville Meade, he was rather erratic but was in some good fights and had a big punch, ...anyone know what he's up to these days...

silkov wrote:Anyone remember Neville Meade, he was rather erratic but was in some good fights and had a big punch, ...anyone know what he's up to these days...

I heard that 'The Welsh Earnie Shavers' is still livng a quiet live in Wales and helps out at his local gym.

But don't quote me on this.

expug wrote:K.O. Joe, Do you know whatever happened to MCcleans rival Roy Shaw?had one pro fight under the name Roy West I believe.

take a look at http://www.royprettyboyshaw.com/

Some good photos etc etc

J

i remember the MCALLINDEN V BODELL fight very well. MACCA was his usual crazed swinging with everything self but bodell looked out of it and jaded and not quite the ticket from the off. there was only gonna be one winner from the first bell. and bodell wasnt that bad earlier in his career.

does anyone remember Wokings Joe Awome? brown bread now, sad to say, but after cooper and with bugner content to dominate the european scene, british champions then were a very odd bunch indeed. i also remember john contehs camp saying they wanted to get bugner in the ring!!

harrygreb wrote:i remember the MCALLINDEN V BODELL fight very well. MACCA was his usual crazed swinging with everything self but bodell looked out of it and jaded and not quite the ticket from the off. there was only gonna be one winner from the first bell. and bodell wasnt that bad earlier in his career.

does anyone remember Wokings Joe Awome? brown bread now, sad to say, but after cooper and with bugner content to dominate the european scene, british champions then were a very odd bunch indeed. i also remember john contehs camp saying they wanted to get bugner in the ring!!

I remember Awome. In fact i have one of his fights on DVD. The rematch with Ron McLean. Didn't Awome win a gold at the Commonwealth Games or something? How did he die?

There were a lot of personalities in the British heavies around that time..........

I think Joe Awome had a brain tumour.

Remember him crashing out of the ring tangled up with Manny Gabriel causing Harry Carpenter to wet himself with laughter on commentary?

Danny`s a personal body guard, nowadays,and is in much better shape than his last few fights,does anyone have that fight on tape,or bugner lifting the 6ft 5 inch dunn,right off his feet with a beautiful ko in their 1st round?

awesom,wasn`t he that totally useless guy,a few tried to bum up ,as usual,said he was a good orospect ..what a joke ...rememberJohn l Garner..remember jokers sayoing he was the new Rocky...and to be honest ,he had a good looking record on papere,till that yank sailor came over throwing bombs,and knocked garner out.

mercman wrote:

Remember him crashing out of the ring tangled up with Manny Gabriel

Isn't that the clip that was shown on 'A Question of Sport' as a 'what happened next' scenario? If so I always thought that it was Awome v Neil Malpass the Central Area Champion.
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It's the sort of thing that would be on 'what happened next?'. But it was most definitely Manny Gabriel .......... Malpass is somewhat lighter skinned

awome was orthodox come-forward puncher with a bit of power, poor balance (which might explain falling out the ring that time) easy to hit. good looking lad (always useful in the british ranks!!). but the boxrec records do not say he was british champ which my fading memory says he was. perhaps i think so because the BBC seemed to follow his progress all the time.
does anyone know?

that rings true, actually. those were the days when the ABA's were televised every year.

yeh, nowadays the media wet themselves over olympic gold medal winners who turn out to be complete pussies. mentioning no names.