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  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,852
    Blackheathen said:
    That’s so cool Croydon.  Celebrities were more accessible in those days weren’t they.  I seem to remember hearing Henry was a regular at his local fish and chip shop.

    Our 'enry was just a genuinely nice guy and I was lucky to have been in his company a few times.

    I remember when Bugner took all his belts (British, Commonwealth and European) - Joe was universally hated for that and everyone was saying 'why did Henry put all three belts on the line?' (not that he had much choice!).


  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,656
    He was certainly a huge favourite with the crowd at Wembley that night.  When the fight was stopped and the fighters left the ring fans ringside hurled their programmes at Ali.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,852
    edited June 2021
    Blackheathen said:
    He was certainly a huge favourite with the crowd at Wembley that night.  When the fight was stopped and the fighters left the ring fans ringside hurled their programmes at Ali.
    Ali turned out to be quite useful though!

    Cooper was really only a cruiserweight and would have been a world champion if that division had been around then.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Blackheathen said:
    He was certainly a huge favourite with the crowd at Wembley that night.  When the fight was stopped and the fighters left the ring fans ringside hurled their programmes at Ali.
    Is that that only similarity Muhammed Ali has with Steve Brown?
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,852
    McBobbin said:
    Blackheathen said:
    He was certainly a huge favourite with the crowd at Wembley that night.  When the fight was stopped and the fighters left the ring fans ringside hurled their programmes at Ali.
    Is that that only similarity Muhammed Ali has with Steve Brown?
    No - they could also both talk the hind leg off a donkey!
  • brownbear
    brownbear Posts: 78
    Interesting point about Cooper, I was watching the Tyson/Bruno documentary the other day, and noted that both of them fought at around the 15stone mark, which would make them tiny by today's standards!

    Fury, Joshua, Whyte, and Ruiz are all regularly hitting the scales at well over 17 stone, with Tyson often closer to twenty! God knows how much the big boys are going to weigh in another 25 years!
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,470

  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,299
    Fury-wilder postponed 
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    edited July 2021
    Saw a tweet from Eddie Hearn saying that Dylian Whyte was ready to step in for Fury. What a time to be alive!
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,034
    McBobbin said:
    Saw a tweet from Eddie Hearn saying that Dylian Whyte was ready to step in for Fury. What a time to be alive!
    If Fury-Wilder is rescheduled for (as i've seen proposed) 9 October, then will Wilder bother taking another fight now or just wait?

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  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,472
    Boxer Chris Eubank's son Sebastian has died days before his 30th birthday, his father's representatives have said.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57786230
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,852
    clive said:
    Boxer Chris Eubank's son Sebastian has died days before his 30th birthday, his father's representatives have said.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57786230

    Awful news.

    RIP Sebastian and thoughts with the family.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,252
    That is horrible news, rest in peace Sebastian 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,811
    RIP Sebastian
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    edited July 2021
    So awful. Had a one month old child as well
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,828
    Awful. RIP
  • AndyG
    AndyG Posts: 5,911
    Tragic. RIP
  • mendonca
    mendonca Posts: 9,406
    Was not impressed with Archie Sharp yesterday. Attitude or Game management wise.
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,736
    edited July 2021
    Takam winnings rounds against Joyce currently. Joyce moving so sloooowly
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,472
    Joyce wins by stoppage

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  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,736
    carly burn said:
    Joyce wins by stoppage
    Very early stoppage. Don't think Takam was actually hurt.
  • mendonca
    mendonca Posts: 9,406
    But he had his hands down and head was just a floating target. 
  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,231
    Absolutely dreadful stoppage... his head was still moving and I don't think he was hurt in the slightest. Joyce probably would have gained momentum and won it from there, but that was way too early
  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,299
    Just watched the fight.

    I say this after all his fights, but Joyce is horrible to watch
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,252
    Gravesend_Addick said:
    Just watched the fight.

    I say this after all his fights, but Joyce is horrible to watch
    I really like him as a human being but as a boxer yeah his style makes me sick 
  • DoctorCharlton
    DoctorCharlton Posts: 2,463
    Joyce takes way too many shots, he's a disaster waiting to happen.

    Very likeable guy though.
  • DoctorCharlton
    DoctorCharlton Posts: 2,463
    Fight Camp starts this weekend.

    Headlined by Connor Benn vs Granados.... a bit underwhelming to say the least. 
  • NorthStandUltra
    NorthStandUltra Posts: 2,540
    Anyone else watching Fight Camp tonight, some decent fights I thought topped off with Leigh Wood beating Xu Can. 

    Not sure what I think about Campbell Hatton, he’s being hyped as the second coming of his old man but don’t think he’s going to get to that level.
  • DoctorCharlton
    DoctorCharlton Posts: 2,463
    NorthStandUltra said:
    Anyone else watching Fight Camp tonight, some decent fights I thought topped off with Leigh Wood beating Xu Can. 

    Not sure what I think about Campbell Hatton, he’s being hyped as the second coming of his old man but don’t think he’s going to get to that level.
    Totally agree regarding Campbell Hatton. It’s still early days for him but haven’t been impressed with him at all so far.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,252
    Far too early to make any judgements on how good or how far Campbell Hatton will go, it was the same with Connor Benn.

    They have a few things in common in having famous, successful pugilistic fathers and heaps of expectation and pressure. They also have fathers and people around them who know boxing and what it takes to get to the highest level. 

    I'm pleased for Leigh Wood, I've rated him for a while and to be honest thought this fight (a world title not the opponent who hadn't fought for over 2 years) might have come too soon 


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