Apparantly I'm not the boxing historian I thought I was...

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by LeonMcS, Dec 10, 2009.


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  1. LeonMcS

    LeonMcS The Mayor of Kronkton Full Member

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    So I've finished work and walking home but I'm struggling after my first game of indoor cricket in 4 years and decide to make a pit stop at the pub conveniently located at the halfway mark home.

    And its a lucky thing because guys, I've just run into the worlds most pre-eminent boxing historian in , er, history.

    The Froch-Taylor replay is on Fox so I settle in to watch, I'm (un)luckily wearing my Pacquiao-De La Hoya T shirt which just screams 'yeah, I don't know **** about boxing' when a strange mix of a half Yank-half Aussie sidles over and interrupts my convo with a mate and starts on about the Green-Jones fight.

    Now I didn't know this, but Jones Jr made $17 million for the fight and Danny $10 million. Thats quite impressive and my quick tally of PPV numbers couldn't sway him.

    But that was just the beginning of my boxing lesson.

    Did you know that;

    Sugar Ray Robinson was the first man to ever beat Jack Dempsey?

    Oscar de la Hoya is the only American to ever win a gold medal at the Olympic Games?

    My new mate was at Ali-Bugner II in Malaysia and Joe actually won the fight?

    Theres more. So many more. so many astounding facts that I hardly had time to absorb them before the next came rattling in. But indeed it was an education and I can only wish you were all there to share it with me.


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    Holy ****, maybe I just met Luds...?
     
    LeonMcS, Dec 10, 2009
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  2. luds

    luds Active Member Full Member

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    Nah mate,wasnt me.
    I wouldve said RJJ got $30million.
     
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  3. Rise Above

    Rise Above IBHOF elector Full Member

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    haha I hate guys like that.
     
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  4. Francis75

    Francis75 FAB 4 Full Member

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    Pubs all around the world are filled with those experts.
     
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  5. Phil Austin

    Phil Austin Keep on Kronkin on! Full Member

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    I'm sure it's the same guy who told me that Joe Louis was the first man to knock out Marciano and retired undefeated....
     
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  6. Drunkenboxer

    Drunkenboxer Least Eligible Bachelor Full Member

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    :lol:

    Australia is full of people like that! It's like bashing your damn head against a wall talking to them. I've had to (Attempt to) set so many know-it-all conspiracy theorist straight on Jones-Green... They don't think he threw the fight. They know! And no amount of rational thinking or reasoning will stop their clucking, grinning and condescending head shakes.
     
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  7. BIGRIGHTHAND

    BIGRIGHTHAND Active Member Full Member

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    thats actually so funny. because that is all of us when we get old
     
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  8. flamengo

    flamengo Coool as a Cucumber. Full Member

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    .......I love Joe Lewis... and Guess Willard... oh, and Sugar Raymond Babbit



    Oh... Fav movie "Weekend at Bert and Ernies"
     
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  9. Kegsy

    Kegsy Lights Out Full Member

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    I understand your pain Leon...i get it all the time too.

    Like this guy a month ago was telling me in a pub that Roy Jones was a 8 division champion & the only fight he lost was to Manny Pacquiao.
    Thats why Manny is the best boxer in the world he said :lol:
     
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  10. Dr Gonzo

    Dr Gonzo Yo! Molesta La Breastas! Full Member

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    :rofl:rofl:rofl

    i had to post a similar thread in the lounge :lol:

    i have heard some dumb **** from people in pubs... a guy 3 weeks ago drunk off his head reckoned that Joe Frazier got robbed against Lennox Lewis :lol:
     
    Dr Gonzo, Dec 10, 2009
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  11. pecks

    pecks ***** Full Member

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    One of my dads mates once told me he used to spar with Jeff Fenech and even knocked him out during sparring a few times. A few minutes later he was involved in another conversation and I overheard him say that he's never been of Taree before. :think
     
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  12. Dr Gonzo

    Dr Gonzo Yo! Molesta La Breastas! Full Member

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    :rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl

    FFS :lol:
     
    Dr Gonzo, Dec 10, 2009
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  13. Kegsy

    Kegsy Lights Out Full Member

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    :lol:
    Its shocking hey...seems to happen more in Australia tho with all these so called 'boxing experts'
     
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  14. COULDHAVEBEEN

    COULDHAVEBEEN Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Only one question Leon:

    Did you present him with the limp 'T' shirt.
     
    COULDHAVEBEEN, Dec 10, 2009
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  15. Dr Gonzo

    Dr Gonzo Yo! Molesta La Breastas! Full Member

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    especially when mundine is involved... when choc is involved people seem to forget about weight classes and yell for him to be put in with everyone from koki kameda to ****ing Valuev :patsch
     
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