Why Has Scotland Never Had a Heavyweight?

selectively harsh mcvey, McGoldrick, Abrew, and Ken Shaw were all very capable & noted fighters, fringe contenders and world classed!

 

mcgoldrick by my measure was l-hw your right, but he did fight a lot of HWs such were the times...

TOP big men from MW up were expected too, the money and fame resting there, mcgoldrick fought some of the best there and Abrew was a respected and noted fighter and Ken Shaw better yet, and the biggest of the 3 too. as I said Shaw beat all 3 of his American fringe contenders and one of them swam with the TOP HWs in wins & loses... so that is respected victory as was some of his Brit, S. African and Euro company.

 

Scots are a genetic cul de sac.

 

Yeah, my father got rickets when he was a kid from lack of sunlight. Those wee little people just don't get enough nutrients from the sky. Then again, what's up with the pygmies? [Or maybe "down" would be more appropriate terminology in these cases.]

Always impressed with their Highland Games competitions though, where they swing heavy weights hooked through their kilt covered genitals. [What's the current record in that event?] Glad they finally expanded that event so females could also participate.

Waiting for some interloper like Tsunami Kobayashi and Sonya "Black Widow" Thomas to finally upset their jingoistic conceit by winning the male and female haggis eating competition in trashing the existing haggis eating records. [Might take longer for outsiders to overtake them in the drinking contests sponsored by Freddie Crawler's Scotch, however.]

My sister and sister-in-laws are really turned on by the thought of Scottish ferret legging swollen salami and bull testicles hanging under those kilts. My girlfriend says she'll stay with me if I'll likewise ferret leg her pets, but I told her to move to Scotland while I join a monastery. I try to remind her that genital enlargement through ferret legging is unnatural, like steroids, and she could run the risk of contracting rabies so many years after the Chunnel was completed, but there's just no deterring her.

 

Shaw suffered a cut in that round that was worse than that guy that near lost his ear...

that injury hampered his career and the same wound on his upper lip was opened a few more times there after... the same happened in the Mills rematch though it wasn't until the 6th round, it's well documented and it troubled everyone involved the luck that Shaw should be forced to retire again with precisely the same circumstances.

Mills stopped a few of his opponents owing to wild looping chopping down type punches, pulling and tearing the point of impact. see Denis Andries and Mills footage to see the kind of punches he threw. But Shaw was a good fighter.

 

You trying to tell me the other fans in Scotland arnt fanatical about their club. Go and watch an Edinburgh derby then come back and talk. Celtic and Rangers are full of glory hunters and biggots, how many of them truly are football fans? Supporters of clubs like Partick and Inverness are no less passionate about their club than any old firm fan. Its a lot easier to support Rangers and Celtic, iv'e no respect for those two clubs.
Sure some of the smaller clubs need the away gates of Celtic and the clubs in debt like Hearts the rest don't or don't in a big way. Anyway what's that got to do with how fanatical fans are in scotland about football . Per population Scotland's always been one of the biggest football fans in Europe. The SP is the 9th most supported league in Europe just now, this is without Rangers and a loss in gates from all the other clubs. There was a time when the SPL was the most supported league in Europe in terms of per population.

 

If their ranked, their world classed.

All these fighters were National Champions when that actually meant something,

Top 10 in Britain when it was the second most respected place in the world for boxing and the Lonsdale Belt was held in near the same esteem as a world championship belt.

Ranked in the Ring Ratings in or outside the Top 10, when the Ring Ratings were rating & classing ALL the Top fighters in the world.

not like todays Alphetbet ratings, with world title fights in 16 fights.

Man you've got a funny idea of world classed.

If you honestly believe that only World Champs and the Top 10 world ratings equals world classed you are sadly mistaken.

there haven been times in Boxing where the TOP men from the Leading Nations were the real deal. To think only 11 fighters per divisions sealed it up all over the world is quite juvenile in your thinking and understanding of what was once Rich times in the quality, QUANTITY and calibre of fighters!

 

You've just answered your own, and my question haven't you? 9th isn't " the most fanatically supported " is it?

As for the bigotry between the 2 big Glasgow clubs, I could give a ****, as I'm an atheist.

They are better at football than all the rest, as evidenced by their respective records.

 

I't was only as far back as 2011 that the SPL was the best attended league per head of population in Europe.

You mention the old firm being more 'fanatical' about football than the other Scottish clubs so of course i'm going to bring up bigotry. Bigotry is the only thing the old firm are more fanatical about than the other scottish clubs. They are not any better supporters. I couldn't give a **** if your an atheist, your getting told the truth here.

Lets keep it boxing. English people should't stick there nose in and talk Scottish football politics. Now **** off :finger

 

Well bully for you, as an English person who subsidises your free prescriptions, I'll poke my nose into any fvcking Scottish politics if I want to. So you **** off and stop poncing from us.

Who first mentioned " fanatical Scottish football supporters " on this thread? It certainly wasn't me. If they're that good let any of them and their supporters come to the English premiership, only to get relegated in a season.