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Ian John Lewis shouldnt be allowed to ref again. Did anyone see the Briggs - Vitali fight? Briggs was in intensive care, yet enzo takes 2clean power shots and he jumps in and makes himself look like a tit. Im pretty srue he was reffing the Mcphilbin fight, too (which was an even bigger disgrace and should have been overturned to a No Contest)

One of worse bits about Iain John Lewis at the Briggs/Vitali fight was that he saw fit to tell Brigg's corner off swearing. This was while he was allowing Vitali to practicality beat Shannon Briggs to death. It just struck me as absurd. The man had his priorities all wrong.

Wladimir Klitschko v Mariusz Wach is on ESPN UK tomorrow night at 10 pm. Them having the fight strikes me as a bit random. With the exception of Friday Night Fights have they ever showed any live/current boxing before? I can't recall them doing so.

Fuck, I forgot about the Gavin-Witter fight.

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How often are the archived posts cleared, and at any one time how many posts are stored on the forum (three months worth, six months worth etc)?

What's the best wrestling game on the Xbox 360 when it comes to game play? I basically just want something that's fun to play. If it helps, my absolute favorite wrestling games were the THQ ones for the N64 (which peaked with No Mercy).

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I was bored and had sometime today, and was in a curious mood. So, I went to Wikipedia and looked up their list of Ring Magazine Heavyweight Champions. I know using Wikipedia has risks, but the list looked accurate. I then went to Box Rec and looked up the career KO percentages of the men on that list. I then put all that information into a spreadsheet; it took all of about ten minutes.

Jack Dempsey was the first Ring Magazine champion.

Anyway, below is a list of the career KO percentages of the men who have been Ring Magazine Heavyweight Champion. The man with the highest percentage of KOs is first. The list is accurate as of today (11 March, 2012).

1.) Rocky Marciano (87.76)

2.) Vitali Klitschko (86.96)

3.) George Foreman (83.95)

4.) Wladimir Klitschko (83.33)

5.) Mike Tyson (75.86)

6.) Joe Louis (74.29)

7.) Joe Frazier (72.97)

8.) Lennox Lewis (72.73)

9.) Sonny Liston (72.22)

10.) Primo Carnera (69.9)

11.) Michael Spinks (65.63)

12.) Max Baer (64.2)

13.) Floyd Patterson (62.5)

14.) Ingemar Johansson (60.71)

15.) Muhammad Ali (60.66)

16.) Jack Dempsey (60.24)

17.) Larry Holmes (58.67)

18.) Max Schmeling (57.14)

19.) Gene Tunney (55.81)

20.) James Douglas (54.35)

21.) Evander Holyfield (50.88)

22.) Joe Walcott (45.07)

23.) Ezzard Charles (43.7)

24.) Leon Spinks (30.43)

25.) Jim Braddock (30.23)

26.) Jack Sharkey (23.64)

This morning, as result of the brawl, Chisora was arrested at the airport. The police want to speak to David Haye as well but they can't find him.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/otherspor...David-Haye.html

Something I never knew, the Kray Twins both boxed professionally. Their brother Charlie was also a pro boxer at one stage.

Reggie Kray (7-0)

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=...8&cat=boxer

Ronnie Kray (4-2)

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=...1&cat=boxer

Charlie Kray (11-6)

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=...5&cat=boxer

This is not a particularly astute political comment, but I just found out that Mitt Romney is sixty-four years old. He looks well on it. I had him pegged as being in his early to mid fifties.

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How often is the backlog of forum posts cleared?

I was unaware of this, but it seems that Tony Ayala Jr got released from prison back in November 2010. Well, assuming that the guy listed on the Federal Bureau of Prisons website is the same Tony Ayala. The age looks right. So, unless he has got locked again in the mean time, he's somewhere out there on the streets of America. Now, that's a comforting thought. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for people being given second changes. It's just that I don't ever see Tony becoming a normal well adjusted member of society and not being a danger to women. Fuck, I mean just look at his history.

http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServl...p;x=59&y=14

It's not mentioned in the documentary but there is a story (and who knows how true it is) that when Wepner went to prison on drugs charges in the 1980's that very early on in his stay (maybe even on the first night) the prison top dog decided to show Chuck who was boss. As the story goes Wepner proceeded to beat the ever loving shit out of him and then wasn't bothered by anyone else for the rest of his stay.

The documentary also doesn't mention Chuck's conviction in the 2000s for his part in a scam selling counterfeit (mainly Ali) merchandise.

http://www.operationbullpen.com/excerpt3.html

Extracted from a 2007 New York Times piece...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/nyregion...yPHTC/hMbT84+Jg

...In June 2005 he was sentenced to 90 days of home detention and fined for his role in a scheme to sell fake autographs of Ali...

To coincide with the premier of the documentary Grantland did a piece on Chuck. It's pretty good and gives a better idea of what his life is like now than the documentary does.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7144768/the-real-rocky

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For all Tyson Fury's talk of the Klits I think he would get stopped by the Cedric Boswell who fought Alexander Povetkin tonight.

Someone should design a green and red skin. Green like old school DVDVR green. I think that would be great for Christmas period.

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Do we have any gay members? Besides the new guy who started the thread I mean. I mean there's obviously a homosexual audience for wrestling, the same as there is with male epics like Spartacus and so forth, and this is quite a large forum so presumably we do. And presumably ones who don't come across as so pervy. Although then again there's been a fair few pervy posts about women over time so I don't know why I bring in that divide.

We did have a gay clique at one stage. Yes, they actually called themselves the "gay clique". It's several years ago now and I can't recall much about it aside from the fact that MAT was a member.

Another boxing tale of woe...

Shannan Taylor an Australian fighter who is the current WBF World Middleweight Champion, and who has had a lengthy career besides including getting a world title shot against Shane Mosley back in March 2001, is on life support following a drug overdose.

As the second story, which I have posted further down, hints this might not be as straight forward as you would assume.

Shannan Taylor - an Aussie fighter's tale of a life gone wrong

* by: Paul Kent

* From: The Daily Telegraph

* November 29, 2011 1:29PM

 

Decision time ... boxer Shanna Taylor is on life supprt / Pic: Cameron Richardson Source: The Daily Telegraph

 

SHANNAN Taylor was the boxing tragedy come to life.

 

Shannan Taylor, 39, is on a life-support machine in Wollongong Hospital after an overdose on Sunday night.

 

Last night Taylor's condition was upgraded to critical but stable, forcing doctors to reassess the cut-off time for shutting down his life-support machine, originally intended for 8am today.

 

A hospital spokeswoman said at 9am today, Taylor's condition is unchanged and remains in a critical condition.

 

Given little chance yesterday, Taylor had last night improved so dramatically he was breathing on his own - albeit barely.

 

Late yesterday those close to him believed nothing short of a pocketful of miracles would save him, a prospect that brightened overnight.

 

Taylor was with two friends on Sunday when they bought what they believed was cocaine. In fact, it was heroin, and an ambulance was called when Taylor failed to wake.

 

Now he and another man are hospitalised while the third man, who vomited, survived.

 

Wollongong police initially sealed the home of an associate of Taylor as a crime scene but have since scaled back the investigation after declaring nothing suspicious.

 

Taylor is the reigning WBF middleweight champion which is, admittedly, a lightly regarded title and far from a full testament of his boxing talent.

 

Former triple world champion Jeff Fenech was one of the last people to speak to him after Taylor called him on Sunday night.

 

"He called me at 6.30 telling me that he was out having a good time. There was a couple of females in the background, they were girls he trained, and he put them on the phone and they told me what a great trainer he was," Fenech said.

 

"I was having dinner with my family so I told him I would call him tomorrow. I rang him first thing in the morning. There was no answer."

 

Fenech received a phone call several hours later telling him what had happened.

 

"It felt like somebody jumped on my heart," he said.

 

Taylor has been a professional fighter for 20 years but, through a combination of bad luck, poor management and missed opportunity - far too familiar themes in the boxing game - he failed to reach the heights he deserved.

 

"When I think of fighters who deserved anything in Australian boxing he was on top of the list by a million miles," Fenech said.

 

"He was one of our first-rate talents and it was all for the work he put in as a youngster and for the guys that he fought and beat."

 

Promoter Bill Mordey handled Taylor early in his career and tried to position him for a title shot against Kostya Tszyu, who by then had left Mordey.

 

Fenech then took over and in 2001 got Taylor a WBC title shot against Sugar Shane Mosley, where he failed to come out for the sixth round.

 

"When he had a chance it was against one of the greatest fighters of the modern era," Fenech said.

 

Taylor admitted to a cocaine habit later that year but since declared he was clean.

So, it seems the police are now looking into the idea that it might have been a gangland hit that went wrong.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/box...r-1226210635125

Boxer Shannan Taylor's hot-shot a 'hit'

 

* by: EXCLUSIVE by Paul Kent

* From: The Daily Telegraph

* December 01, 2011 12:00AM

 

Possible gangland overdose connection ... Shannon Taylor. Source: The Daily Telegraph

 

POLICE are investigating whether Shannan Taylor was the mistaken victim of an attempted gangland hit.

 

Strike Force Calligan has widened its investigation to include the boxer's drug overdose on Sunday night which left him in an induced coma and on life support in Wollongong Hospital.

 

The stunning development has thrown new light on how Taylor almost overdosed after mistakenly consuming heroin he thought was cocaine.

 

Detectives are investigating if the drug substitution was a planned "hot-shot" to bring down another man as part of an ongoing drug war.

 

Several deaths have already been connected to the war.

 

Taylor remained on life support last night after doctors decided against earlier plans to revive him yesterday morning.

 

He has already had three heart machines removed but remains on a respirator.

 

The strike force was formed earlier this month following the disappearance of underworld figure Goran Nikolovski, whose car was found incinerated in bush at Macquarie Pass on November 4.

 

Nikolovski - still missing - is alleged to be an associate of the man who provided Taylor and his drinking party with the heroin they believed was cocaine on Sunday night.

 

The associate also snorted the drug and was rushed to hospital with Taylor, but was released on Tuesday.

 

His ill-fated hook-up with Taylor appears to have happened by accident.

 

Taylor was drinking with his promoter Rod Van Akker and another man on Sunday night and later returned to Van Akker's home.

 

At some point the associate of Nikolovski arrived at the house, left for a short while, and returned with another man and the drug they believed was cocaine.

 

As well as being an associate of Nikolovski, the man was also connected to another underworld figure, convicted drug dealer Saso Ristevski, who was executed in front of his family at his home on September 28.

 

Ristevski and Nikolovski both served jail time for a large cocaine haul.

 

Police who searched Van Akker's home on Monday took away a dinner plate they believe was used to cut up the powdered drug.

 

As well as the recent deaths, another close associate of Nikolovski also recently took himself to hospital with severe stomach complaints, another area of interest for police.

 

Adding weight to police suspicions the seller targeted the associate is the fact there have been no other hospital admissions from overdose victims affected by the same batch of drugs, indicating he was deliberately targeted.

23-1 featherweight prospect Matt Remillard just got sentenced to five years after pleading no-contest to first-degree assault.

http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/72941...ecticut-beating

Updated: November 29, 2011, 2:48 PM ET

 

Matt Remillard gets 5 years in prison

 

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Featherweight boxer Matt Remillard was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday for fracturing a Connecticut man's skull with an aluminum baseball bat last year in what police say was a fight over a woman.

 

The 25-year-old Remillard didn't speak during the hearing in Hartford Superior Court, and he was led out of the courtroom by marshals to begin serving his sentence. He pleaded no contest to first-degree assault in September in exchange for the five-year term.

 

"Matt, by accepting this plea, has given up his career," said Kevin O'Brien, one of Remillard's lawyers. "This is just a tragedy."

 

Remillard, a two-time under-19 national amateur champ from Manchester, Conn., was climbing toward the top of the featherweight rankings before losing to Mikey Garcia in March, dropping his record to 23-1. Remillard had held the featherweight titles of the North American Boxing Federation and the North American Boxing Organization before losing to Garcia.

 

The victim, 22-year-old Jordan Evans, described a harrowing ordeal in his January 2010 encounter with Remillard.

 

Evans said Remillard pummeled him with the bat several times at a home in Marlborough, about 15 miles southeast of Hartford. Evans said he managed to run outside, get in his car and lock the doors, but he didn't have the keys and was trapped. Remillard then went berserk, smashing the car with the bat numerous times and threatening to kill Evans and his family, the victim said.

 

After the attack, doctors had to reconstruct the top front of Evans' head. Doctors inserted eight plates and 30 screws, then used 150 stitches to close an ear-to-ear incision they made on the top of his head to fix the damage. He said he still has pain and double vision.

 

"I have suffered through insurmountable pain," Evans told Judge Elpedio Vitale. "This is something that will haunt me for the rest of my life."

 

Evans said Remillard should have gotten a much longer prison sentence and he called the five-year term "a gift." He and his parents also criticized prosecutors for dropping criminal charges against three other people in the attack.

 

The assault happened at the home of Danielle Napolitano, Evans' then-girlfriend and Remillard's ex-girlfriend.

 

Police say Evans secretly followed Remillard as he drove to Napolitano's home, then the two got into a fight. Evans said he left but returned later that night at the request of Napolitano, who told him that she was alone. Evans claims Napolitano set him up for an ambush.

 

William Gerace, another lawyer for Remillard, said Evans wasn't as innocent as he portrayed himself. Gerace said Evans "stalked" Remillard and escalated the argument by punching Remillard during their initial confrontation.

 

Napolitano was charged with conspiracy to commit assault in connection with the beating. Her brother, Adam Napolitano, and her cousin Richard Napolitano Jr. were charged with assault, conspiracy and criminal mischief. Prosecutors agreed to drop the charges against all three because of their cooperation in Remillard's case.

 

Evans said he is attending college classes with the hope of studying finance at the University of Connecticut next year. He filed a lawsuit that remains pending against Remillard, Danielle Napolitano, Adam Napolitano and Richard Napolitano Jr., seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars for pain, suffering and other claims.

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