i thought they did fight in the ams in which francis almsot got the better of. im not sure. he had a very brief am career. mos def under 20 fights or somthing like it. audley must of just started when julius started. to be honest julius wasnt a boxer he was a a def mma type guy he did karate from what i remember.
Julius was a late starter in boxing; he turned pro in 1993 at 28 after a ten-year amateur career that was sparsely populated with just sixteen fights donned in the head gear. Julius, still so engaging and able to carry a story, remembers his boxing beginnings. “I came home one Wednesday evening, swinged on the TV and a guy [Dave Stewert] that I went to school with was boxing. He won the London ABA title. I thought “I can do that!, I'm big and strong!” “I bumped into him on the Saturday and said ‘Look, I've got muscles, I can do that'. So he said ‘Alright, get yourself a gum shield, meet me and we'll go to the gym.'” “We went to the gym and it came to sparring. He beat the crap out of me, without trying. He didn't take liberties with me, but the difference was that he could box and I couldn't. “From that day, I was absolutely hooked on boxing.” Francis was eighteen years old. Although he clearly says that boxing was his first love in terms of combat sports, Julius did his fair share of playing the field in the early days. “I had a fairly limited amateur career, but in-between I took up kung-fu, did a little bit of karate, then I went to tae-kwon-do and then I went to kickboxing. I actually trained Thai [boxing], but fought full contact. All this time I was boxing amateur.” At 26, a curious friend asked Julius if he'd thought of turning to boxing's paid ranks, but he shrugged it off. He elaborates,” Because I hadn't done anything as an amateur, it didn't appeal to me because I'd said to myself that if I was going to become a professional fighter, I want to win a amateur title first.”
I dont know much of Francis amteur career Francis is a mug a convicted armed robber and scarficial lamb to Tyson and after the fight he was there ringside having been the victim of one of the most painful one sided mismatches seen on British Shores and he was saying "I still believe I could beat Mike Tyson now" THE MUG he was dropped by a jab at the end of the 1st round - A JAB way out of his depth - the delsuional fool
Yeah but he got the biggest pay packet of his career. Francis was a very limited boxer but made the most of his time in the pro ranks. Scarficial?? :hat
i dont know why people hate him he did what he had. a decent jab, good defence and vetranism beyond his years. totally out foxed danny williams and stopped a very dangerous pele reid. the bert cooper of the british domestic scene
