horice notice {the thread that started about horice notice :-) }

Mannion holds a quite a few decent wins and had a very good run in America.

Heres one for you Doug from around the same time, Terry Christie. An Irish fighter who fought out of Boston, trained with the Petronellis ended up with (something like) a 13-0-1 record then went back to Ireland to become a Doctor.

 

Busy, brave, incredibly durable guy who took McCallum the full 15 rounds and made "The Body Snatcher" look quite ordinary. Sean lacked power but some say he actually wobbled McCallum at one point in their fight (I've never seen the fight) and he had the style to trouble the big punchers, such as Baek.
He lost a one-sided decision to Errol Christie here (Christie could beat anyone who couldn't punch) and Gary Guiden found a weakness in his armour (which McCallum surprisingly failed to capatalise on) when he stopped Sean with body shots.
Otherwise, Sean had a fine career and was a model pro.

 

Terry's brother, Joe, beat Frank Bruno as an amateur although Bruno hammered him in a rematch.

 

bennie ,do you remember frankie lucas.

 

yes.i think he fought minter and kevin finnegan too.

 

Was it Frankie Lucas who got passed over for the British Commonwealth Games team and fought for St Vincent (or somewhere like that), winning the gold?

 

Tommy "Buck" Taylor was a good puncher but esentially limited . I bumped into him once on a Euston train and he was drinking a can at around 9.00am. He was on his way to to the oil rigs in the Middle East where he mde a good living underwater as a former Royal Navy diver dealing with the barnacles gathering on rig stantions. Did he floor Kaylor twice? From my recollection it was the other way round. Kaylor outclassed him.

 

yes

 

do you remember a fighter from liverpool named shoemaker ,he was a royal navy diver too

 

That's right. He beat the England man Carl Speare in ths semis and went on to win gold . Lucas was an animal whom Minter avoided. He was possibly past his best when Sibbo, on his 21st birthday, essentially finished him in one of the greatest domestic battles ever seen in this counrty.
Man, it was war!

 

he wasn't called widman for nowt was he:twisted:

 

That would be Brian Schumacher, one of the nicest guys you could ever wish to meet and a fantastic boxer-puncher. Brian hammered fellow Scouse Jimmy Price on the way to the ABA middleweight title in 1981 and won several other ABA titles, although he was always a bit chinny and it found him out as a pro against Tony Wilson in two wars for the British light-heavyweight title.

 

the same.he boxed for thingwall hall.i remember jimmy price too,he was boxing at york house and holy name when i knew him.