Rogan best Irish heavyweight EVER?

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  1. MightyLondoner

    MightyLondoner Underdog Full Member

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    Frank Warren said in his Sun article that Martin Rogan could be the best Irish heavyweight ever. Now at first when I heard that I thought your having a laugh but in retrospect there isn't much competition.

    Surely the 37 part-time cab driver/actor/boxer can't be the greatest ever?
     
    MightyLondoner, Mar 7, 2009
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  2. alba

    alba Guess who? Full Member

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    you haVE JUST SHOWN your ignorence,typical londoner.think there the centre of the ****ing earth.
     
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  3. Smith

    Smith Monzon-like Full Member

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    Not another one......

    Calm down nubian, you need to loosen those strings you're tied up to.
     
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  4. MightyLondoner

    MightyLondoner Underdog Full Member

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    Calm down son, All i've done is quoted what I read in the sun and asked peoples opinion.. If you have nothing worthwhile to contribute to the thread then i suggest you go join the rest of the morons on the general forum :good
     
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  5. ApatheticLeader

    ApatheticLeader is bringing ***y back. Full Member

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    Jesus man, chill out!
     
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  6. moorser

    moorser Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    there hasent been many good irish heavys over the years but there have been some great irish - americans if you can count them
     
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  7. brown bomber

    brown bomber 2010 Poster of the Year Full Member

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    John L Sullivan wasn't bad...
     
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  8. alba

    alba Guess who? Full Member

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    mate together me and you shall end the oppresion of London rule:good

    btw i think McEwan's next fight wil be on the Hatton/pacman undercard,dunno who against .But he now has former heavyweight champ michael moore in hs corner aswell .
     
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  9. alba

    alba Guess who? Full Member

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    the fact you are happy to qoute what you read in the 'sun' i would ask yourself,did you contribute something worthwhile?
     
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  10. ConcretePete

    ConcretePete Active Member Full Member

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    Outside of irish americans there isnt too many irish heavyweights that come to mind. Kevin McBride is the only one in recent years i can think off, the guy who beat a 76 yr old Tyson ,then got KO'd by Golota and others. Jack Doyle, now theres a peoples fighter! I think he turned up pissed for most of his last 10 fights.
     
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  11. BremnerBomber

    BremnerBomber Guest

    Come on counting Irish-Americans is clutching at straws don't ya think, can us English count the tens of millions of Yanks with English ancestry ? there has to be a good boxer in there somewhere.
     
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  12. alba

    alba Guess who? Full Member

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    who is the irsh foghter form the early 1900's ,i think he came form a travelling background.But his hand has been kept or something like that and turned up in a pub about 5 years ago ...sorry for the vagueness
     
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  13. Mookhound

    Mookhound Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Soemone's gotta say it: where else in the UK matters other than London?

    Edinburgh? not after the banking collapse... hehehe...

    i go back to my uni at warwick and my hometown of Bournemouth, and I can't help thinking what provincial sh*tholes they are... and as for the north...
     
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  14. GazOC

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    Peter Maher who held the HW title, Tom Sharkey who fought for the HW title and Paddy Ryan who was bare knuckle champ and lost his title to John L were all born in Ireland.
     
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  15. achillesthegreat

    achillesthegreat FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BRAVE Full Member

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    Gene Tunney was born to Irish immigrants so I'll go with him!
     
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