Question time..

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  1. flamengo

    flamengo Coool as a Cucumber. Full Member

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    Will get an answer for this one soon...
     
  2. JOSEY WALES

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    Nice one Rock , That question done my head in for a while yesterday lol :good
     
  3. flamengo

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    A very unlikely guess... Joe Hill??? Mick Canavan was around the same time... yet... I never heard mention of him sparring Fammo on 'TV Ringside'... Mick also had about 8 pro. fights...
     
  4. atigerofold

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    Yes.

    Fighter Magazine actually had a contest for this question and I stole it from them, but I remember it well; the answer is Mick Canavan, who was on his comeback trail in 1967.
    Well done.
     
  5. flamengo

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    Mate... I had no idea he boxed in 64... must have been 17 or 18?? What a bloke!!! Sadly missed, very sadly missed.
     
  6. atigerofold

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    He was with some other trainer in 1964, cannot remember his name; then suffered a gashed eye which infected his face. Then become a family man for a while. Then made a come back in 68, under the guidance of Ambrose Palmer.

    Mick was born in 1946
     
  7. flamengo

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    OK... whilst on the same avenue, Ambrose, Canavan, Young snr & jnr.... Another 'old man' made a comeback... for the sake of Leo Snr.. This 'comeback' was for the purpose of training Leo Jnr... This man had a good deal of training experience, having looked after a current 'world class' referee, whilst in his boxing days.

    Who is this 'old man'..??? Now deceased.

    And, who is the 'world class' referee???
     
  8. atigerofold

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    Part a: Johnny Cooper
    Part b: Ken Anderson
     
  9. flamengo

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    part A. Correct.

    part B. partially correct...... thinking of another fighter that Cooper handled in the late '60s....
     
  10. atigerofold

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    Who represented Australia at the Tokyo Olympics, and won an Australian title in his third professional bout.
     
  11. atigerofold

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    When you said (Johnny) looked after, I thought you meant beat well....
    then you changed the context by saying handled.

    did you mean that johnny trained a fighter that was later a world class ref?
     
  12. flamengo

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    Yes.. sorry mate... this man was tutored by Cooper in the 60's and early 70's.... later to become an official for the WBC...
     
  13. atigerofold

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    "This man was tutored by Cooper in the 60s and early 70s....later to become an official for the WBC " (and a world class ref also........) I take it we are talking about a fellow Johnny trained or tutored to be a boxer?

    (When so much money is at stake Flamengo, you might need to proof read the questions.....(wink))



    Malcolm Bulner?
     
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    Who is Fearless Fred Casey?
     
  15. flamengo

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    10 points. well done.