What UK Boxer would you like a film to be made about?

Excellent ideas!! :good

 

Fighters were more interesting back in the black and white days .

 

Jimmy Wilde and Jim Driscoll were on the way to one of Wildes fights traveling up to London by train and were playing cards with two chaps to pass the time when one of the chaps stated his mate could drop a fella quicker than Wilde Driscoll was in uproar until they found out the said opponent was Pierrepont the kings hangman ..........

 

Yeah it carried on quite late...Btw can you imagine how refined those guys must have been and how comfortable they would've got at fighting. It must have been just like getting in the shower for us when they got in the ring. What Jimmy Wilde did is quite astonishing by any standards, really just mind-boggling. How do we even comprehend it in this age of 30 fight careers?

This is why i laugh when people start critising the "black and white" fighters as they call it and telling us these guys today are so much better. Fighters from yesteryear were just so much tougher because they were subjected to tougher conditions.

No sport has progressed so slowly then Boxing and even regressed in some areas. I don’t know if it’s because boxing deals so much in skill, technique and hand eye coordination, but for whatever the reason it has not progressed so much in a way where the comparisons become unfair. Look at Jimmy Wildes power and Henry Armstrong’s stamina...Armstrong basically fought for 45 minutes straight, like some sort of mad pitbull and Wildes power especially for such a small man is insane, truly unhuman and we've seen nothing like it.

That was about 85 years ago, very few men in history can match that no matter what training techniques they used. If you take the best featherweight of recent years maybe Juan Manuel Marquez and you compare a tape of him and Willie Pep. Pep is more coordinated, fluid and his moves are just better. Jersey Joe Walcott is twisting his shoulder and parrying just as good as Bernard Hopkins and James Toney are now.

Look at Ray Robinson throwing 6 left hooks in a row with power and it took Roy Jones Jr. to come along 50 years later to duplicate that. After the 1920’s the only way you can tell the difference is the quality of film, the haircuts and the basic black and white trunks. In actuality some technique has been lost with time, there has been a huge drop in technique and losts of skills lost. It's mainly because boxing doesn't have a main body which promotes it around the world and keeps things and legacies stored.

Jimmy Wilde all things considered is a phenom of extraordinary proportions.

 

Fantastic post mate , i read somewhere that Jimmy attributed his power to the never ending hammering at coal seams way under ground (something he did until his accident) .

 

Freddie Welsh
Bob Fitzsimmons
Ted Kid Lewis
Jackie Kid Berg

 

alan bosworth,peter buckley,matt scriven,naseem hamed

 

Cooper played by Colin Firth.

Mcguigan's life could easily be made into a feel good movie.

Boxer lives in sectarian hotbed, boxer kills boxer, boxer marries sweetheart of different religion, boxer heals ethnic tensions, boxer wins world title for his recently dead father(artistic lisence intended), boxer tragically loses world title in the heat of the Nevada desert. Boxer now squeeky voiced pundit on national telly.

 

One of the fighters from the old days. Freddie Mills and Wilde are great shouts also Terry Marsh would be a good caper.

A film set in the pre gloved era could be impressive.

 

Mills also fought in the boxing booths.

 

Kirkland lang

 

kirkland laings a great shout also think sumit about a journeyman would be cool billy smith or sumone?

 

who was that former boxer turned bouncer who was shot dead after he asked they kids to stop smokin'. u had quite a few underworld connections aswell didnt he

 

benn or eubank

but steveo would be my fave