Funny fight: Iran Barkley vs Tony Halme 1999

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  1. Consu

    Consu Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I found some funny clips :lol: I hate when old legends don't understand to retire but still somehow that was kinda funny match up between old and fat legend and with a guy with zero skills. Iran Barkley is a well known legendary fighter but wait.. Tony Halme? Okay: Tony Halme was a former wrestler (known as Ludvig Borga). He started his boxing career with a zero experience and that's a funny story for sure. He was on the ringside watching Holmes-McCall 1995 and said that he was having little bit fun and little drunk and was shouting that he would knock both of these guys out using one hand. Ironically there was a promoter of the event sitting next to Halme and he got frustrated with that big mouth and said ''If you are as tough as you say here is a paper, I have an event coming in couple of weeks and I need a heavyweight fighter'' Halme said he thought that should he whip his ass with that paper or just put name on it. And you know what happened? Halme took the fight and KO'd his opponent in 30 seconds and that was the begin of his career with a zero boxing experience.

    And he ended up to fight guys like Iran Barkley.. And he beat fat and old Barkley, still it's kinda cool cause Halme started boxing at the age of 34 with zero experience.. And later he captured the finnish heavyweight title.. :D

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-MSrr7TOro[/ame]

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybXTW5ktbEI[/ame]
     
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  2. Malden

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    Halme also got knocked out by Garing Lane on the big Nielsen - Tyson Undercard.
     
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  3. Consu

    Consu Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yeah stopped because of cut(s) if I remember right
     
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  4. Momus

    Momus Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Halme also ended Tatanka's long unbeaten streak. That alone ranks him above either Klitschko.
     
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  5. Malden

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    Halmes boxrec page says he died in 2010. Do you know what happened?
     
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  6. m8te

    m8te Oh you ain't know? Full Member

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    the funniest thing about it is that finland had such a shitty domestic scene back then
     
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  7. Malden

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    Oh ok. Iv´e only seeing three fights from that card. Nielsen - Tyson, Hassan Al - Baldomir and Calzaghe - McIntyre.
     
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  8. MaliBua

    MaliBua Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    He was found dead at his home. It is not official but everybody knows he made suicide.
     
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  9. sadlittleboy

    sadlittleboy Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    For some reason I'm thinking he killed himself but I don't know why I think that...

    He also ran for some sort of Govt. role IIRC.
     
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  10. Malden

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    Thats too bad. RIP.

    That reminds me: Barkley lost to Tue Bjorn Thomsen a few fights prior to the Halme bout. Thomsen was stabbed to dead at at club in 2006.
     
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  11. sadlittleboy

    sadlittleboy Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    If I remember correctly he was bat**** crazy.
     
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  12. m8te

    m8te Oh you ain't know? Full Member

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    professional wrestlers have a track record of steroid use and then going berserk and killing themselves. it's staggering how many professional wrestlers have committed suicide, and it's almost always a result of unregulated steroid use that eventually affects their brain adversely.
     
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  13. Malden

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    They come a long way indeed :deal
     
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  14. m8te

    m8te Oh you ain't know? Full Member

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    what good fighters do they have other than helenius?
     
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  15. Malden

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    Still.
     
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