Should they bring back prison fights?

As long as they don't get paid

I wouldn't want to see a ****ing convict go to prison and make hundreds of thousands or millions while his locked up.

 

Give it up, Floyd vs Pac will never happen.

 

Well that didn't take long.

 

behind the bars lol

 

prison is full of ****in idiots, if your banged up then you lose your right to take part in the things free men can. If anything prison time should be made tougher no more enjoyable.

 

I would love to see Wesley Snipes have a real fight, just like the film he starred in with Ving Rhames

 

Well, prisoners do usually have jobs and can save up if they're wise.

They should be paid something but there should of course be a salary cap (and nowhere near the purses top earners make in the free world).

 

Scott had as many fights in prison as out.

 

Charles Manson p4p #1

 

Just let them fight each other. If and when they get out, they have a way to make money.

 

I think so. Prize money could be substituted for charity donations of the fighter's choice or college, medical and trust funds for their family and their victim's families. I think permission to fight would need to come from the victims in some cases..

Having the fight in the prison would cut out gate revenue and transporting a fighter like Ike (who I want to see) to a public arena could be a real problem if he were go berserk. I mean it would take 20 cops to handle him and someone would get hurt in the process and some ESB members would try to join in to help him

 

Don't know about pros facing off against crims, but I'd be all for an actual prison boxing championship.

They did something similar on the show OZ. Not really a good example cos one of the O'Reilly brothers fixed the fights by spiking his brother's opponents' drinks. Some Italian almost got killed, i think it might have been Chuck Zito..

But anyway, even if they don't kill each other, it would give these scumbags something useful to do and an outlet to vent their frustrations so they don't have to anally **** each other. Might help keep them out of trouble when they get back on the outside too.

 

there was a thing in the ring mag a few months ago about prison boxing tourneys so it still goes on just am not pro

 

Verbal bout with a cell-block champ

From the other side of the Atlantic last week came a cutting that stirred memories of one of the strangest days of my working life. It was a brief news item that told how James Scott, a former contender for the light-heavyweight championship of the world, had been released from prison at the end of a 28-year stretch and “just one month after turning 57”. The age was dubious. Scott already had the habit of subtracting a couple of years when I met him in September 1981. That he had other less harmless foibles was indicated by the location of our specially negotiated rendezvous, which was in the depths of Rahway State Prison, one of New Jersey’s maximum security penitentiaries and home, as I observed at the time, to men mean enough to make Bad, Bad Leroy Brown yell for his mammy.

Scott was serving a life sentence for a first-degree murder alleged to have been committed to cover up an armed robbery and, just in case that didn’t give him enough cell-block cred, he had made himself star performer of an extraordinary boxing programme operated at Rahway. The scheme involved eight professionals and about 40 amateurs, all of whom fought regularly inside the penitentiary against opponents from outside. Scott had a career total of 22 fights (19 wins, two defeats) and exactly half of them were in Rahway, often with famous names in the other corner. He beat Eddie Mustafa Muhammad and Yaqui Lopez before his hopes of a title shot petered out with losses to Jerry Martin and Dwight Qawi. Qawi, who had also served in Rahway, said he recalled the other convict “walking around like he had a Superman cape on his back”.

My photographer colleague, Michael Brennan, and I found Scott rather less sociable than Superman. “Don’t write the conventional article,” he told me. “You got to put some exciting adverbs in there. Tell them about that English guy John Gully.” Gully was a Bristol man who emerged from debtors’ prison at the beginning of the 19th century to become heavyweight champion of England and an MP. James Scott hasn’t done quite as well but anybody who wants to taunt him about the difference shouldn’t expect help from me.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/article516615.ece