Best 5 all-time Aboriginal boxers!

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  1. DaSweetScience

    DaSweetScience Its Spinal Full Member

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    This is the most exciting game I've played since Hungry Hippo!

    You wouldn't have fought in Papua New Guinea by chance?
     
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  2. old man

    old man Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Yeah and Manny Santos in NZ
     
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  3. LeonMcS

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    Your giving us to much rope to hang ourselves with.
     
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  4. DaSweetScience

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    Former lightweight champion of Australia?
     
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  5. ipswich express

    ipswich express Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Yeah mate I've listened online many times. Just wondering if it was available on the radio here. I'll try and find out. PS - I think Col Wilson is in Emerald these days.

    Another good Murri boxer up here is Nara Dau.
     
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  6. COULDHAVEBEEN

    COULDHAVEBEEN Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Psssst - You're on the right track DSS.
     
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  7. LeonMcS

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    The rope is definitely tightening.
     
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  8. ipswich express

    ipswich express Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    What was Carruthers like as a ref?
     
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  9. JOSEY WALES

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    Ippy are you a promoter ?
     
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  10. ipswich express

    ipswich express Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Nah mate. Used to work for one though.
     
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  11. DaSweetScience

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    I feel like Colombo closing in. Final question.

    Did your brother have his fighting nickname "borrowed" by one of the great Will Ferrell characters?
     
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  12. DaSweetScience

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    Solved. Matt Ropis.:happy

    Matt with that wealth of first hand knowledge on Koori fighters, it would be great to interview you for a project we are kicking off at the Hall of fame dinner at the MCG this year.

    Are you attending by chance?
     
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  13. COULDHAVEBEEN

    COULDHAVEBEEN Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Matt, you certainly took on the best Lightweights going around in the 70's, including the four aboriginal boys from the earlier list. In those days blokes didn't seem to duck each other like they do now.

    Reckon you'd have a tale or two about the old Festival Hall/TV Ringside days, or when you won the Aust title from Kid Matthews. If you I'd like to share one or two yarns I reckon the readers here would love to hear them mate.
     
    COULDHAVEBEEN, Aug 22, 2008
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  14. flamengo

    flamengo Coool as a Cucumber. Full Member

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    Matt, if you would be kind enough, please offer your own insight into the events of Michael/Ropis. 'Hank' Stanley and co. actuated one of the finest matches offered in the 80s for Australian fight fans.

    Having spoken on occasion with Frank, he is for myself, a total contrast to the public perception. I personally found him well spoken, articulate, welcoming and generous to accomodate a stranger for the conversations...
     
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  15. COULDHAVEBEEN

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    Harry Hayes from one of DSS' lists, and whom Matt beat in 1972, sounds like an interesting character. In the book FIGHTER LADY by Bev Will (of FIGHTER MAGAZINE fame) there are some quotes from Bill Long, Harry Hayes' promoter:

    That Harry, I've had some troubles with his fights. We got to the weigh-in for the Vicera fight, and what happens - broken thumb. Did I have trouble that day finding a replacement. Settled for Pressnell and had the devil of a time persuading Stadiums to let him fight for me...he must have been scared or something. There was shouting to his seconds telling them to throw the towel in as early as the 2nd round. Well they did it in the 6th.

    and another one:

    Two days before the fight Harry's waving his finger at me and says his teeth are aching. So I take him to the dentist and she takes a look at his teeth and nearly dies of shock. They are so bad, broken off at the gums. She had to cut them out 2 days before the bloody bout!

    and lastly:

    I have him listed to fight Nissen and two weeks before the fight I can't find him! He's gone walk-about. So what do I do? I just sit and wait. Fair dinkum, if I could put Harry in Pentridge Jail and give him rocks to break, I could make a world champion out of him. I wasn't far short of asking the jail Governor to put Harry in for a couple of weeks.

    By the way, FIGHTER LADY (by Bev Will) is a great book! Mainly focused on the early 70's it features excellent interviews etc with the likes of Fammo, Rose, Charkey Ramon, Ferreri, Thornberry etc, etc. Best way to get hold of a copy is through www.bewtalks.com.au and it only costs about $15!
     
    COULDHAVEBEEN, Aug 24, 2008
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