How to score a double knockdown?

What have I started?

On a completely unrelated note, I watched the AJ fight last night in a family friendly bar and it was my utter delight to bump into ex tennis pro Jeremy Bates.

Tennis was my first sport as a young kid and Bates my first hero. Whilst he only got to the fringe of the world's top 50, during the early 90's he made the 4th round at Wimbledon 2 or 3 years in a row, at a time when the only other Brits to compete were wildcards who couldn't get beyond the 1st round. As such he was a relatively big star and once a year the whole country got behind him.

Jeremy explained how dedicated he was to his tennis career and abstained from relationships until he retired. As such he married late. As a 61 year old man he was accompanied last night by his wife and their 14 year old son.

They say you should never meet your hero's, but Jeremy was a gentleman. His was wife charming too, but their son was a right little wanker.

Sorry.

 

No apology required Greg.

I’m glad you were duly impressed by your hero, Mr Bates.

Unfortunate that, on the other hand, your exposure to Master Bates wasn’t so joyful.

Now I am the one who should really apologise..…..

 

They've recently moved to a neighbouring town and Mrs. Bates kindly invited me to her son's birthday meal next month.

Which leaves me with the predicament of what gift to give the cocky little tosser. I found this online, do you think they'd see the funny side? - https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/119...how_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details

 

I actually looked this up, Pug, you *******! Now my wife thinks I have an interest in Victorian pornography.

 

I certainly see the funny side - but then again, maybe I’m not the best person to ask.

I mean, it’s multi purposed. That dude was clearly in “action”, so it qualifies as an “action” figure also, and don’t all kids love their action figures - especially those they can identify with?

A bit different to the ones I owned as a kid - my Steve Austin figure had a bionic eye and bionic arm - that dude appears to have had a piston like bionic arm like Steve but he’s putting it to a somewhat different use than Col Austin might’ve imagined , bionic speed being necessary to beat that devil and achieve the objective. The devil being the volcano, of course and the objective being, well…you know.

The volcano, Mt Vesuvius, apparently wasn’t the only thing that blew that day. At least that guy died in the throes of passion..nice way to go.

 

8/10 round

 

Lol, apologies. On the positive side, it’s historically significant, educational and in the public domain. It’s no Victorian Secret.

Just like watching Corbett and Fitz boxing for the title (which was only 10 years prior to the release of this particular film).

In fact, given the trunks Corbett wore in there against Fitz, THAT film is the one that should be banned. You don’t want your Mrs catching you watching that!

 

I went to Pompei last year. Luckily (for me), it was only subsequent to my visit that I became aware of this particular historic figure. Otherwise, the headline "British tourist thrown out of Pompei and issued a life time ban, following highly inappropriate historical reenactment" would be destined to the number 1 hit when googling my name, forevermore.

 

Lol. Given the world we now live in, if you did “pull off” that re-enactment, good chance you’d be deemed an Influencer, giving rise to a proliferation of copy cat re-enactments at said location by tourists from all over the world. Poor Pompeii wouldn’t know what hit it…yet again.

 

Well, definitely not what I expected to find when I returned to see how this thread was still going, but good to see a couple of our distinguished posters are getting a lot of positive self-gratification out of the topic.

Was Kevin Pompey ever involved in a double knockdown? We might have stumbled on how he got the “Mr Excitement” nickname.

To answer the topic’s question, the best way to score a double knockdown is to hit the other guy really hard while timing it when he swings so you get hit equally hard.