RIP micky duff

Discussion in 'Classic Boxing Forum' started by choklab, Mar 23, 2014.


  1. Foxy 01

    Foxy 01 Boxing Junkie banned

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    You are welcome, seeing as that is your purpose in life there are an abundance of them. Just ask when you are ready for the next batch.

    Until then keep fantasising about your knowledge ( non existent ) of Jewish solidarity. I like others find it hilarious.
     
  2. thistle1

    thistle1 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Wrong thread McVey...

    this is what I referred too.

    Originally Posted by Unforgiven View Post
    Lots of professional sports is fixed in one way or another, I've been saying it for years. Boxing surely. Some of the methods used, it's done almost openly, and passes for semi-legit and accepted practice.

    Boxing fans, even knowledgeable ones, accept all sorts of blatant farcical stuff, bums taking dives etc., guys who made whole careers out of losing, fighters carrying other fighters, big-time fighters playing pitty-pat for 12 rounds and walking off with millions of dollars each, ridiculous reffing and judges' decisions.

    The fans moan a little then shrug it off. And most these people would deny that the sport is fixed.

    Boxing fans like to say "No, that's in the past. that was when the mafia ran things", like you have to be a murderous gangster to rig something ! Sports fans are suckers. It helps to believe that everything is on the level.

    People can say I'm a 'conspiracy nut', but it's all coming out. I think professional sports in general might implode when the true extent of the fix and the PEDs is exposed.
    Then again, professional wrestling WWE flourishes.

    Thistle1
    Yes Unforgiven that is such a mind blowing hypocrisy that even knowledgeable followers of boxing have to admit some of these instances and STILL like to deny there are shenanigans involved for or against fighters... the sport could easily be Rewritten. there are as I have always maintained loads of truly great fighters with very little between them!

    Miles Templeton did an excellent 3 part interview with former British L-HW Contender Jock Taylor from Sidcup London. it's on YouTube and Taylor mentions straight up about fixed fights and fights he could never win and fighters being held back and such.

    it blows me away some people just can't bring themselves to acknowledge this. Well spoken Unforgiven!
     
  3. fatcity

    fatcity Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I am certain I read that Duff suffered from dementia at the end and was in horrid condition.
     
  4. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    And absolutely none of your post addresses your assertion that Mickey Duff was corrupt. Still waiting for your proof.
     
  5. thistle1

    thistle1 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    they're all at it...

    _uck I came from a family that was involved at Top Level Boxing from the 1920's to the late 1960s, they KNOW Who the power players were, and so do hundreds of other people.
     
  6. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    I claim no knowledge of Jewish solidarity,I just challenged Thistle's assertion that the Jewish boxing promoters stuck together and helped each other when I know for a fact they did not.Jack Solomons hated both Mickey Duff and Harry Levene with a passion ,on his death Harry Levene was asked for a comment , he just gave the details of his next show.

    Levene and Duff worked together but there was never any love lost between them.

    I was married into the Jewish community for 25 years so perhaps I am able to have some small insight ?

    Your opinion on anything has no value for this Forum, you are just an object of ridicule, a saddo who flies into ridiculous rages of obscenities and insults when his extreme views are even mildly questioned.
     
  7. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    Bottom line you smeared a man who has just died provide PROOF or shut the f88k up!
     
  8. Stevie G

    Stevie G Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Sad news. Mickey was a very astute matchmaker. Terry Lawless once admitted that if Lloyd Honeyghan had still been with him,he'd have waited until the seemingly unbeatable Don Curry vacated the Welterweight division and had Lloyd challenge for one of the belts afterwards. Mickey saw a great probability that Honeyghan could beat Curry,though.


    R.I.P.
     
  9. thistle1

    thistle1 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I smeared NO One, I am probably one of the most polite & respectful people on these boards as dozen of poster will attest too.

    we are talking about THEE Most Corrupt Sport in ALL Sport and you don't accept that, until when it suits you... which is neither right or accurate.

    GOD RECIEVE His SOUL, that's what people mean to me McVey, the Right & ONLY thing that matters, SALVATION & Truth.

    now outside of that Micky Duffs stranglehold on British Boxing was No more sacred than, ******s, Solomons, Levenes, Kings, Rickards or any other Legitimate (yeah right) Businessman in the Sport!

    no one else seems to doubt how they operate.
     
  10. Foxy 01

    Foxy 01 Boxing Junkie banned

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    You are a self obsessed nonentity, whose importance on this planet is non existent, much less a boxing forum. An arrogant fool who believes his imbecilic opinions are worthy of respect. A complete joke in fact. I suspect you are the village idiot wherever you live, who clears the local pub within half an hour of entering, but is too stupid to notice.

    You claim to have been married for 25 years into the Jewish community ( more than likely another fantasy ) yet if true you must have been a very slow learner.

    Practicing Jews may well compete fiercely against each other in business, but under attack from gentile competition would be expected to form a temporary alliance to stave off the hostility. A sort of Freemasonry if you like, but based on Jewish beliefs and principles.

    So lets get some facts straight here.

    You used to buy tickets from Mickey Duff's gofer, and you have met him a few times at shows. Whoopee fvcking do. And because Duff didn't openly admit to you that whilst he made certain fighters, ( and himself ) a hell of a lot of money, he also tucked other fighters up along the way, he must be purer than the driven snow.

    What I wrote in the other post applies even more now.


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    Thats a pity. Couldn't you put in a bit more effort and try to beat the current world record by at least an hour.
     
  11. mcvey

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    Duuff was not under attack from Gentile competition, he was under attack from another Jew, Jack Solomons.

    I'd be interested to hear your views on Freemasonry, I suspect they would be as inaccurate and ignorant as your knowledge of Jews.
    The bile that excretes from your posts is something to behold.
    Is life really that desperate for you? If so why don't you do yourself and the rest of us a favour and end it?
     
  12. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    This was your post.


    "he was a protégé of Solomon and an 'insider' from very early days, a London Jew and Wide Boy all his days. He knew Self Preservation very well and like those before him benefitted from others misfortune, interfered with or not! "
    In my book thats a smear ,cowardly and without substance..

    Here's another you made some time ago.

    "they've a long line history of crooks, Duff, Levene, Solomon's, the Board itself, Referee's and even fighters who were 'in' during and after their career. British Boxing was more corrupt than the New York "wiseguys"

    Easy to say especially when you provide no proof.

    No one has suggested that boxing is not corrupt, my issue with you is your insistance that Duff was.
    What is undeniable is that under Duff's promoting Britain saw its biggest success on the world stage of Boxing, sure he made a fortune out of it, do you think he was in the game to lose money?

    He also made a fortune for a lot of fighters, and made an unprecedented amount of them world champions , that is his legacy.
    Provide proof that's all I ask. Still waiting.:think
     
  13. choklab

    choklab cocoon of horror Full Member

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    I liked Duff because he was a character. He stood up for himself and knew more about boxing than anyone else. Before the days of boxrec he knew everybody's records in his head, without notes. Harry legge would try and catch him out but he never could. Duff would say no, so and so already beat him last year but it should have been a draw. ..and this was just small time kids on the lower circuit. Duff knew everybody. Later Duff was the man in Europe who the Americas called for advice. He advised Jimmy Jacobs on TYsons early career path.

    Duff also kept gangsters away by inviting a lot of senior police to his shows. He would not be intimidated by anyone.
     
  14. mcvey

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    Jacobs was a decent man but his knowledge of boxing was very limited Duff's was astronomical.He lived and breathed the sport.
     
  15. choklab

    choklab cocoon of horror Full Member

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    Yes I think Jacobs was a strange and mysterious man. We have him to thank for all the film he saved of course but there are a few curious things about him.
    I was taken aback by the way he behaved after the Tyson v Ferguson fight on air.