The Official "Where Are They Now ?" Express !!!

Thompson and Corbett, the rest i dunno
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Good call

:thumbsup

 

Steve Roberts,, yup thass him, solid, he was a southpaw aye?

 

Darren Corbett eats a lot and drives a taxi afaik Jeff

 

yeah southpaw that was doing well then lost a ibo and wbf title fight against a russian who looking back desevered a bit more caution then what he had a no contest against pernall whitaker because whitaker tested positive for cocaine. he had a load of fights then had a break took that fight lost the guy then fought richard williams and got beaten with ease so tells me steve could and should of beaten him. Then had a win in his comeback then lost again to a club level fighter and had interview with sky and said he's retiring he didn't have it in him anymore and was gutted how bad he boxed. he was nice boxer with decent bang but domestic level tops shame he never got big fights at british level he was in around same time as farnell,williams (both matchroom sports fighters), takaloo,alexander and co.

heres some links

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/low/boxing/1840582.stm

 

nice post, cheers Mandanda :bbb

 

Ross Hale was a good fighter at welter and light welter in the early 90s,and what happened to that African guy Mpush makabie he used to turn up on sky all the time.

 

I'd like to know where Robbie Regan is now. Unfortunately, so do the South Wales Police.

 

Adrian Stone. Paul Samuels. Antony Farnell.

 

Farnell's now a trainer and his charges include Anthony Crolla, Tony Bellew and Frankie Gavin. Posts here under the username 'Arnie'.

 

Sure do

 

Aye Adrian Stone, used to watch a bit of him. Last i saw was him getting nailed by Mosely. Where is he, in the USA ? I remember he trained there a lot. Also Tony McPake..Scottish fighter, was going to be something special im sure. I did hear months ago he was on the way back.......is he?

Cheers

 

What's he done?

 

I used to see him working on the doors in nearby Blackwood after he reitired. He was obviously very recognised in the area and used to get a load of kids attention who were out for the night. At first it was all good natured but inevitably got to turn a bit nasty for him. Obviously didn't help that he was a former world champion who needed to work for a living, and that he was a short arse. A few young kids fancied their chances and there were always reports of some scuffles locally. I don't think Regan could possibly have chosen a more hazardous post career occupation given his fame but Jeff may have other ideas about that.

Anyway, Regan became involved with some wrong un's and it all got progressively worse until things came to a head in 2004:

http://search.bbc.co.uk/click/p/2/ds/main/t/News%2520%252d%2520South%2520East%2520Wales%2520%252d%2520Sadness%2520as%2520boxing%2520champ%2520jailed/id/17231391224222123231319283288203000/sp/bbf315b5f6ec28948ac28baf91a502c9/-/http%253a%252f%252fnews%252ebbc%252eco%252euk%252f1%252fhi%252fwales%252fsouth%255feast%252f3676608%252estm

To cut a short story long, there are lots of rumours around the valleys that he's involved in all sorts of wrong doings.............. alledgedly.

It's a sad story to a guy who's career was cut too short in the first place. Was part of a tremendous team of boxers Dai Gardener had around then. Steve Robinson, Robbie Regan and Nicky Piper were all regular visitors to the gym based in Abercarn. The gym was founded and sponsored by a car sales garage next door which subsequently went bust and the gym closed. Ironically, the gym was on the same industrial estate as Calzaghe's new location.

I guess everyone gets to see Piper all the time and Robinson is now a trainer and all round nice guy.

 

He took a brief sabbatical after getting KO`ed badly by Shane. Then he challenged Sergio Martinez for the IBO and got beat handily and called it a day. I think he lives in Detroit now.

 

That was a pretty bad beating, I must say.