gorman

thank you and your Audley comment is a very sage warning to take any views and predictions uttered by me, with a large amount of salt. I have lots of opinions, but always recognise that a lot of mine are laughably rubbish!

 

Stop being so humble my man. My other absolute classic prediction which was so wrong, especially when I knew very little about him, was that Paez would be too experienced for the absolute killer at 135lbs which was De La Hoya and to win on points. Theres just no words, maybe apart from moron to describe that prediction.

I then loved him for the rest of his ATG career and was lucky enough to see him in Vegas. Embarrassing rookie prediction.

 

thanks mate. And we all live and learn. Boxing captures us and so do some of its fighters. I remember being so convinced Munroe would win the world title vs Nishioka cos of the backstory and how nice a guy he was. I'd watched him beat Kiko in Barnsley the year before so thought it was destiny! It wasn't.

 

I’ll second that mate, on that Sunday morning after 4 rounds I said to my Mrs he’s going to win this. He then got out experienced and then came the ridiculously wide scorecards. Tough man though, had a lot of time for the boxing bin man.

After that I saw Nishioka beat Marquez in the ballroom at the MGM about 6 months later. The tickets were about $50 ringside and it was like York hall in there. It was great to see him pretty close and get the win

 

brilliant. Munroe is training boxers and people for fitness now, he'll be good at that, was always fit and eked out every ounce of talent he had. He still looks within fighting weight too, bit like Carl Thompson who's now lighter and looks younger!!!

 

I think that’s so cool. Could you imagine having him as your personal trainer? I would want do PT 8 hours a day.

 

Haha me too. When I was actively competing in strongman I paid for some sessions with Andy Bolton to rebuild my deadlift and squat. Andy was the first man to deadlift 1,000lbs and is a hero of mine, world champion powerlifter and placed at Arnold Strongman champs, has beat cancer and kidney failure as well. It was like doing a boxing session with a world champ, I was nervous but learned so much. They say never meet your heroes, Andy fortunately was a brilliant person and helped me rehab my back and hit a PB in both lifts. And a big boxing fan so had plenty to chat on. Sorry to derail thread slightly. I have form for this.

 

That’s a great story mate and you must have loved learning and training with one of your heros and true greats in that discipline.

 

thanks mate, a memory I'll always look back on fondly.

 

Read his posts but don’t look too much into them, he will contradict himself in the same thread quite often. I think he just randomly types whatever inane ramblings are currently going round in his head.

 

Inane ramblings is the best summary I have read of this chap.

 

I'd love to see Jim's keyboard, the comma and full stop buttons must be sparkling clean.

 

Always come across as a good bloke with natural ability - good handspeed and shot selection.

Unfortunately couldn't put it together in other areas in order to go beyond British level.

 

Well said.

I had high hopes for Nathan. He's still relatively young for a heavyweight but it does not look like he's going to fulfill his early promise.