Best Traveller boxers ?

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  1. moorser

    moorser Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Who were and are the best travller boxers amateur and pro ?

    For me in the pros it would be Andy Lee or Michael Gomez and in the ams John Joe Nevin !
     
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  2. Rutzini

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    Definitely not Sven Ottke - he didn't travel anywhere the lazy so and so.
     
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  3. greatmategreat

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    Theres a few come out of a gym in Dale Farm in the last few years.

    They've had some recent trouble with the council and have had to move on though.
     
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  4. Furey

    Furey EST & REG 2009 Full Member

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    Joe Ward is a better amateur than John Joe Nevin.
     
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  5. mckay_89

    mckay_89 Haw you! Full Member

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    I didn't know Lee was a traveller.
     
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  6. moorser

    moorser Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Joe Ward is a class act no doubt but I feel Nevin is just ahead of him in terms of development, Nevin is our best amateur imo !
     
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  7. moorser

    moorser Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Yeah he is Furys cousin but I think he likes to keep it quiet .

    I also read Wayne Rooney and Frankie Gavin are from traveller stock but not too sure about those 1
     
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  8. mckay_89

    mckay_89 Haw you! Full Member

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    Some cousins of the Fury's live around the corner from me. I was on Phill's facebook one day and seen some of them listed as his family. They're mental *******s, my ex lives on the same street as them and she phoned me one night panicking because the police had cordoned off the street as one of them was running about threatening the others with a gun. They're a weird lot though, Irish travellers who support Rangers, I suppose they can't be all bad.
     
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  9. alba

    alba Guess who? Full Member

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    Seriously ,or are you just making that up :lol:?
     
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  10. mckay_89

    mckay_89 Haw you! Full Member

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    Gods honest truth, at least some of them are bluenoses. There's also a load of them in Larkhall/Ashgill who are all Rangers daft as well, but that just comes with the territory I suppose.
     
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  11. alba

    alba Guess who? Full Member

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    You have to appriciate how funny that reads! :lol:

    they must have had too many blows to the heads! :shock::good
     
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  12. mckay_89

    mckay_89 Haw you! Full Member

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    :lol: I suppose it does, you've got to understand that I live in deepest, darkest Lanarkshire though, nearly everyone is a bluenose around here. Some of the guys I go to games with have names like Breen (first name Michael), Sweeney, Patrick and Cassidy, yet they're all massive Rangers fans. ****, even my first and middle names are decidedly Irish.
     
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  13. leo_messi

    leo_messi Guest

    I like john Joe nevin, lovely style.

    Yeah I guess lee is from traveller stock. But he'd be more of a settled traveller I guess. Lee is my favourite pro so I would pick him as my favourite traveller pro. Top guy.
     
    leo_messi, Oct 19, 2011
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  14. alba

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    ah rigth!
     
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  15. anklespanker75

    anklespanker75 Guest

    lol. Anyone in boxing with even the slightest Irish accent is in some way rellated to Tyson Fury
     
    anklespanker75, Oct 19, 2011
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