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  1. OLD FOGEY

    OLD FOGEY Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I was a famous heavyweight boxer who ranked right up there with MGM's Leo the Lion as a movie icon. Who am I?
     
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  2. mattdonnellon

    mattdonnellon Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Billy Wells
     
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  3. OLD FOGEY

    OLD FOGEY Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    You British guys would know this. That is right.

    For those who don't know what we are talking about, there was a famous producer of British films J Arthur Rank, who ran what was known as the Rank Organization, a number of film studios, I believe. If a movie was produced by the Rank Organization, a man appeared on a platform and ran a big gong as the intro logo, the same as the lion came on to roar before an MGM movie. The "gongman" was Bombadier Billy Wells.
     
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  4. mattdonnellon

    mattdonnellon Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    ps I'm Irish....
     
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  5. Meast

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    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uie4YqrhNHQ[/ame]

    Here it is!
     
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  6. OLD FOGEY

    OLD FOGEY Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Sorry. Oh, my, what a faux pas.:oops:
     
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  7. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Instead of using the sledgehammer on the gong, Bikly Wells should have used the sledgehammer on Georges Carpentier, who kayoed Wells twice....
     
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  8. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    a chin of the finest porcelain china...

    man, i learn a lot on here.
     
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  9. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    :lol:
     
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  10. Jack Dempsey

    Jack Dempsey Legend Full Member

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    Having a 'J Arthur' is also slang for something over here, anyone guess what??
     
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  11. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    Actually, he couldn't take body shots.
    The Term a " J Arthur" ,has a different meaning in cockney rhyming slang ,as Brits will know!
     
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  12. Dempsey1238

    Dempsey1238 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Would like to see that, is it on youtube, being from America, we hardly see anything on Wells outside of his fights.
     
    Dempsey1238, Apr 19, 2010
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  13. Meast

    Meast New Member Full Member

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    Yeah, do I really need to say :lol:
     
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  14. Meast

    Meast New Member Full Member

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    I posted the gong video up the page, if that's what you meant?
     
    Meast, Apr 19, 2010
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  15. bruthead

    bruthead REAL TALK Full Member

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    Don't think it's Billy Wells in that video. He was in the black and white version but they had to shoot a new one when colour film came in.
     
    bruthead, Apr 19, 2010
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