Ex fighter, more feared than any other fighter

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  1. johnmaff36

    johnmaff36 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Idi Amin?
     
  2. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    No, never been to Uganda !
     
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    Mitch Green?
     
  4. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Nope, I came from the same area though !
     
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    Mike Tyson
     
  6. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    No, I had better artillery...
     
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    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Hint, I became more famous after my boxing days were over...
     
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    Rubin Carter

    No can't be, he's alive
     
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    lenny [the govnor] mclean
     
  10. bman100

    bman100 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    burt you officially got everyone stumped, where hhascup? i got no clue but i really wanna know who it is...
     
  11. Meast

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    Yeah it's a pretty broad one this
     
  12. Bukkake

    Bukkake Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yes, where's hh when we need him?

    I thought the "pusseycat" remark was a hint - and was surprised to see that "Big Cat" Willliams was NOT the answer. Now I have no idea!
     
  13. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    hh must be on vacation, so I'll honor your request..
    The fighter was a heavyweight boxer who had 25 bouts from 1944 to 1947, but became a man so feared after he retired...His name was
    Vincent "The Chin " Gigante,the mob hitman, who gunned down Frank Costello, and later on became the boss of the FEARED Genovese Crime
    Family...His word was law and he was a rival of John Gotti...He was a man
    to be feared, and that he was !..b.b.
     
  14. RockysSplitNose

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    aaawww Burt!!?? I swear I was thinking that way earlier and I was thinkin who was the gangster they called 'the chin'?? :lol: But I decided against that just incase any of his friends were listening in and thought I might be direspecting him :scaredas: - I'm sure they called him the chin because as a fighter his chin kept letting him down - I'm sure that how I heard it? Good one anyway Burt you scored a unanimous decision with that one :good
     
  15. Del Boy

    Del Boy R.I.P Darren Sutherland Full Member

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    He certaınly wasnt feared as a boxer wıth only 1 KO on hıs record