Irish Boxing

yeah i love it too mate!! we should set up our own forum! :yep
esb has so many dickheads but everyone is cool in here!!

i hope to hear some more analysis from u mate. u certainly know what your talking about! respect.

 

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Ardy, I vaguely remember watching the O'Grady-Watt fight on Halloween night in 1980. Actually, it was November 1, 1980 - the night after Halloween. Anyway, from my recollection O'Grady and his family had some death threats before the fight. Some extremist Protestant group I believe they said was responsible. I remember Sean really getting the better of Watt before the intentional headbutt turned the tide. It was a terrible cut. In the spring of 1981, Watt got his clock cleaned by the great Alexis Arguello which pleased me greatly. My only regret was that Arguello seemed to carry Watt and probably could have kayoed him if he stepped more on the gas pedal so to speak. I went to see the Cooney-Holmes fight on closed circuit television at the casino in Atlantic City. I had recently turned thirteen years old and my grandfather took me. I remember Cooney was called 'the great white hope' and I was wearing a kelly green 'Cooney Country' T-shirt and white adidas hightop sneakers with green stripes. Two black guys were teasing me and laughing at me after the fight cause' I had a temper tantrum when Coooney lost and was throwing a fit and crying. It was just good natured ribbing though. They were grown men and I, as I explained, was thirteen at the time. I had met Cooney twice, and his mother, one of brothers and one of his sisters so there was an emotional attachment I had which exceeded just being a fan. In 1995, I spoke a couple times by phone with the late James Quarry - older brother of the late Jerry Quarry. I had been sending donations to the Jerry Quarry foundation to prevent pugilistica dementia. James passed away from lung cancer in Oregon in 2002. Jerry pre-deceased him in the first days of 1999. My father was a huge Quarry fan in the 1960's to mid-70's.

 

we will have the last laugh franner!!

 

Setting up a forum is easy to do. Getting members to keep it going is harder. Much harder. Look at your number of regular posters here. If you got your own sub forum here, like British Boxing, you would have fewer strays but enjoy the potential that a thriving, existing site brings. You might ask the mods for it.

 

hi shamrock,i wouldnt dicard your own talents as a coach so easily,did you not train the no.1 light heavyweight in the world in the ams.?
i always seem to forget you're a coach aswell shamrock,i just suspect some wee kiwi paddy sitting behind his computer thinking of "uch,wouldnt it be good to be back home"

its a bit harsh of jack doyle to come out and slander fra for chasing the next great irish hope,i think everyone is doing it,we have so many prospects at the minute that we are just waiting for that one wee golden egg to come out and take it to the old glory days,imo i cant wait to the next irish world champ and furthermore will support those who dont make it to that level wholeheartedly.

 

dont remind us ardy,please dont remind us

nah fair play to the brits,they have a great set up in place and they are reaping the rewards of it right now,lets just jhope we can say the same in 5 years!

 

Well, although everyone is saying this now, I had my worries about Lee as well. I was at his fight v Falliga live in Limerick and he simply couldn't handle him in close. Also, Falliga kept coming out of teh corner with vicious hooks and everytime there was an exchange in close Falliga got the better of him. Andy didn't seem to know how to finish him off. I said to my father that when Lee is beaten it will be by someone who can fight well on the inside and get in his face, Vera did just that. I personally think a Duddy-Lee fight would be a lot closer that some people think.

Obviously, I am hoping with all my heart that Andy can bounce back, but it's sickeneing to see this kind of talk straight away, and suddenly people are on to Macklin.

 

As others have said shamrock, you seem to know yer stuff. And thats no put-down.

 

"Over here" some people see it as a badge of honor rooting for your home team even though some of the 'rough times' go on for decades. Anyone can root for the winner. Being realistic about their abilities is the difference though. The Irish have as much right to be proud of their lads for stepping into the ring as anyone else. Winning only makes it better. :yep

 

Yeah. We hope you have insight we lack. Kelly Pavlik's sparring partner was on the undercard of his first fight with Taylor. He said he could tell from the back of the arena, where he went to be with his girl friend after his fight, that he could see Taylor was done coming out in the 6th round. This was later confirmed, I think by Taylor. I have watched that fight again and I don't see it. Your training is going to pickup things we don't, just like Kelly's sparring partner. You are GURU here, like it or not.

 

STAMINA TRAINING!!!!!! it is as simple as that! i saw the fight several times over... lee was tired half-way through the fourth, before he got hurt and while he was dominating! he even had to back up and breath with his mouth wide open. steward is to blame! they trained for a quick KO, but found vera's chin to be quite tough.
watch the fight again on espn360.com; you will see lee was killing him...the ONLY factor was fatigue!!!....NO EXCUSE FOR THAT!!!!!!!!:fire :fire