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Slugger O'toole 80's
Posted: 07 Sep 2008, 08:04
by funso banjo baby
Slugger o'toole...born fidel castro smith !!!
i kid u not
cant find on boxrec but he was half decent in britain in the 80's
Re: Slugger O'toole 80's
Posted: 07 Sep 2008, 08:09
by bennie
Yeah, he was a decent fighter, looked a bit unlucky against Henry Wharton in Leeds. I watched him fight as an amateur for England vs Poland in 1986 and he showed plenty of potential. Brendan Ingle renamed him Slugger O'Toole in the paid ranks.
Re: Slugger O'toole 80's
Posted: 07 Sep 2008, 17:43
by Robinson
I think you can find Slugger O'Tooles career
on pornopedia.org.
Re: Slugger O'toole 80's
Posted: 08 Sep 2008, 02:18
by wouter
O'Toole is listed here as Fidel Castro Smith
Re: Slugger O'toole 80's
Posted: 15 Sep 2008, 11:21
by DavidPayne
He easily beat Wharton. He was robbed.
Re: Slugger O'toole 80's
Posted: 18 Sep 2008, 19:26
by TerribleTerry
As Harry Carpenter said during the closing stages of his commentary on O'Toole v Wharton (it was screened by BBC):
"If Wharton wins this fight it will go down in history with the loaves and the fishes" (or words to that effect - its been a longtime!)
I was a big Wharton fan and even I conceed Smith boxed his head off that night.
Re: Slugger O'toole 80's
Posted: 25 Sep 2008, 15:54
by fatcity69
He was a great boxer... the Wharton fight was a terrible robbery... but just one of a few Castro suffered in his career... I think he was robbed against Mccracken too and afterwards quit the game because of it... under different managership and with a few breaks Castro was good enough to at least fight for a world title, if not actually win one...