FAO nolly re danny williams

buckshee

did you see the williams fight last friday?

got to be the funniest thing ever , he got docked two points for a low blow but at the same time gave his opponent a standing 8 count , then he gave williams two standing 8 counts after being hit by one good shot each time then he wouldn't stop the fight so williams could have the tape on his glove cut which was loose.

He then ended round 6 ninety seconds early just as williams was about to win which he then won in the seventh, truly bizarre.

watch it on www.secondsout.com , if you register for free they give you enough credits to watch it. had me in stitches

nolly

was it not any channells mate? i quite like danny boxed round my era in ameturs,i really believe hes the best we have,and has been showing some ball of late,makes me sick harrison is going to fight peter not danny.will have a look heard it was madness,well done danny for coming through it,british boxing the best in the world imo

AFKABartram

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/7431510.stm

buckshee

did you see the Harrison fight on the Calzaghe undercard ? Awful as ever , the man's a joke .

Danny suffers from a lack of concentration but has real talent when he puts his mind to it and can bang which is always a bonus

Riscardo

[cite]Posted By: buckshee[/cite]did you see the Harrison fight on the Calzaghe undercard ? Awful as ever , the man's a joke .

Danny suffers from a lack of concentration but has real talent when he puts his mind to it and can bang which is always a bonus

Wouldnt say he's a joke. He won a Gold Medal and brought boxing back onto the BBC. He was then given a stupid deal by the BBC which ruined his career.

I saw him in the London ABA'S and he was a solid powerful Superheavyweight.

Carter

He turned himself into a joke, he was rightly a hero after the olympics. After the 15th bouncer/butcher/landlord he beat the joke started to wear a bit thin.

AFKABartram

Harrison was no joke; He was the best of what that sport dictated, which is technical fighting for just three rounds wearing a head guard, and a ref that interjects when someone sneezes.

Take off the head guard, times the rounds by 4, and Harrison just wasn't suited to it. Not his fault the Beeb gave him a tasty contract, but was his fault he let everything get to his head, thinking he was better professionally than he had proved, and thinking he was better at handling all the promotional / contract stuff when he would of been better suited getting himself proper fit.

In my opinion :-)

BlackForestReds

Or it just might be that a combination of training hard and being in the right place at the right time against weak opposition saw him win a gold medal followed by a lucrative contract with the BBC which he'd have been mad to turn down. Whereupon he had to box against Mexican road sweepers for a while so as to give him more experience but he was unable to train on and take his talent to the next level, i.e. he was the boxing equivalent of Djimi Traore.

Riscardo

[cite]Posted By: BlackForestReds[/cite]Or it just might be that a combination of training hard and being in the right place at the right time against weak opposition saw him win a gold medal followed by a lucrative contract with the BBC which he'd have been mad to turn down. Whereupon he had to box against Mexican road sweepers for a while so as to give him more experience but he was unable to train on and take his talent to the next level, i.e. he was the boxing equivalent of Djimi Traore.

You dont win a boxing gold at the olympics if you are shit. Proven point. However its a completely different sport to Professional Boxing.

BlackForestReds

You dont win a boxing gold at the olympics if you are shit. Proven point. However its a completely different sport to Professional Boxing.
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Essentially he beat everyone he came up against and therefore won the gold medal - no problems with that. However boxing at the Olympics is an amateur sport, or at least it was then. Most talented boxers start in the amateurs then quickly go pro and start earning money and fair enough, being repeatedly thumped in the head while not getting paid for doing so would test my patience. Harrison though was one of the few who chose to stay at the amateur level and chase possible Olympic glory rather than turn pro and go after a quick buck and fair play to him for doing so.

nolly

the quality in ameturs is far better than quality in the pros,in the pros people box for money and most of the time are pretty poor,harrison won a olympic gold,which some say the pinnacle of any boxer as unlike a world title you box whos in front of you and avoid no one,of course a featherweight or middleweight title in the olympics is held in much higher esteem,as more people box at these weights,a example is in the abas a super heavy can box as little as 3 times to become a champion,the quality is low.harrison holds a win over peter in the ams