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The Swadlincote swineherd.

iainment
iainment Posts: 8,039
in Other Football and Sports
Just read he died a while ago.

Limited boxer who had a great amount of bouncebackability. Indeed the word could have been invented for him.

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  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,353
    Most of us have to try and talk bollocks on here but you're just a natural...
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    So you're too young to remember him then.

    And then spout your own ignorant bile.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    He means Jack Bodell.

    RIP
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    I did indeed mean him. His nickname of course being the Swadlincote swineherd. Which he seemed to not mind at all.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Why didn't you just say RIP Jack Bodell then?

    The guy Our 'Enry fought to win the British title? - respect and RIP.

    No need to be so cryptic Iainment, some of us under 60.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,035
    Sometimes it seems like a competition on here to come up with the most obscure RIP possible.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    Jack was quite a sensation way back when .. personally, I'd forgotten all about him until this post appeared

    R I P
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,480
    Lincsaddick said:

    Jack was quite a sensation way back when .. personally, I'd forgotten all about him until this post appeared

    R I P

    Not sure he was a sensation.....more of a sad joke to be honest.

  • Halix
    Halix Posts: 2,237
    I liked his Monty Python "Boxing Tonight" bout against Sir Kenneth Clarke who he beat to be the new Oxford Professor of English Literature.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,220
    Well. This went well.
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  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    SoundAsa£ said:

    Lincsaddick said:

    Jack was quite a sensation way back when .. personally, I'd forgotten all about him until this post appeared

    R I P

    Not sure he was a sensation.....more of a sad joke to be honest.

    At various points in his career, Jack was ABA Champion (amateur), and as a professional he was British Champion, Commonwealth Champion and European Champion. Among his fights were wins against Brian London, Billy Walker and Joe Bugner - and he went 15 rounds with Henry Cooper.

    Very few people in sport have that sort of CV - not a sad joke at all.

    RIP Jack

  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    bobmunro said:

    SoundAsa£ said:

    Lincsaddick said:

    Jack was quite a sensation way back when .. personally, I'd forgotten all about him until this post appeared

    R I P

    Not sure he was a sensation.....more of a sad joke to be honest.

    At various points in his career, Jack was ABA Champion (amateur), and as a professional he was British Champion, Commonwealth Champion and European Champion. Among his fights were wins against Brian London, Billy Walker and Joe Bugner - and he went 15 rounds with Henry Cooper.

    Very few people in sport have that sort of CV - not a sad joke at all.

    RIP Jack

    Quite.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,480
    edited November 2016
    Sorry chaps.....I remember him very well and the general consensus at the time was that he wasn't up to much. He faded from the scene almost as quickly as he appeared.
    Hat's off to him though, he was a brave fella and deserved his short stay under the spotlight.
    RIP....Jack....RIP.

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