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In fact, I found the fight online; So I'll make it easy....

Jamie Moore Vs Ryan Rhodes (EBU (European) light middleweight title) (WBC Light Middleweight Title Eliminator)(October 23, 2009)(Bolton Arena) (Bolton, Lancashire, United Kingdom)

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bD-aUQKnTw...yer_profilepage

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76ut5-W2cWY...yer_profilepage

Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySwIPZd1IxQ...yer_profilepage

I would urge everyone to try and watch the Jamie Moore Vs Ryan Rhodes fight for the European Light-Middleweight Title, which was on Sky last night. It was a great back and forth fight with both guys having their moments.

 

...The only fear I have is how large the proportion of people who, like Harry, somehow feel that Griffin came off well on the show is. All we've heard from the media in the last few days is that British people are intelligent enough to make their own minds up about the BNP. I don't think that is true for a lot of people.

 

Bingo, the general media has sorely overestimated the general intelligence of the native populace. The belief Griffin came off well according to some people in spite of reality is utterly indicative of their support no matter what, and their ill reasoning isn't going to be changed by logic nor fact.

When you're preaching to people

Also, going off-topic, Bonnie Greer turns sixty-one next month. She looks well on it.

Are you serious? The nervous laugh he did throughout the show was just showing how mcuh he was shitting himself

I actually thought that was a symptom of nervous excitement more than anything else.

He looked incredibly uncomfortable too - hands shaking, voice shaking, sweaty, that silly little "I'm in on the joke" chuckling all the way through, and the frail-mask slipped totally at end with the stuff about two men kissing being "creepy."

I don't think Griffin looked uncomfortable at all during the show. To me it seemed like he really didn't care what people (ie the panel and hostile audience) thought of him, and was having a great time because he loves attention.

As for the show, it went as I thought it would.

The kind of people who are going to agree with Nick Griffin will think that he did well. They'll think it was a hit job. That he handled it well, and that he made good points. For instance, when he went into his little rant about the gays I thought it was funny. The kind of people who hold those views will think that Griffin is one of the only people in British politics speaking for them.

Everyone else will think that he came across badly.

Did Ohio State University really offer Kermit Cintron a full wrestling scholarship?

His Wikipedia entry reads

It's October 1, 1993. At Cardiffs Arms Park Lennox Lewis is defending his WBC Heavyweight Title against Frank Burno. On the undercard a twenty-two year old Joe Calzaghe is making his pro debut.

Joe Calzaghe Vs Paul Hanlon (October 1, 1993) (Cardiff Arms Park) (Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEid1ZNNlXI

Lennox Lewis Vs Frank Burno (WBC heavyweight title) (October 1, 1993) (Cardiff Arms Park) (Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom)

The first two parts are build up. The actual fight starts in part three.

Part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKyuVd2JoAo

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtQkrQq7-fg...feature=related

Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=957f_5x2a88...feature=related

]Part 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8bhsEx4w2E...feature=related

Part 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFJOYgu4s7I...feature=related

Twenty-two years ago this month Mike Tyson fought Tyrell Biggs. To be exact, today the fight was twenty-two years and two days ago.

Mike Tyson (31-0-0) Vs Tyrell Biggs (15

Two where are they now questions

Carl Froch is a tough guy. I mean, he

So, Carl Froch beat Andre Dirrell by split decision in a bout that was far from a classic.

Personally, I thought that Dirrell just edged it. He was very fast and had slick movement. He made Froch miss a lot.

That said though, some of the rounds where close. Froch is the champion and I could see judges favouring him in the close rounds. Also, Froch was the one coming forward trying to make the fight. A lot of judges like that more than slick defensive boxing.

I would have gone the other way but I don

I ordered the Froch fight on Primetime.

The Abraham/Taylor fight was entertaining. As my brother phrased it, "Abraham turned man off again." Prior to that though (Taylor got knocked out with seconds left in the fight) it was enjoyable and fairly competitive. Abraham took over in the latter stages and was winning on the cards. Taylor was still throwing though. He deserved to go the distance. In boxing though you don't always get what you deserve.

Abraham is a bad man. I think some of the defensive frailties that Froch has shown in recent fights could hurt him against Abraham. Froch has a good chin, but I don't think he can afford to take shots off Abraham. He simply hits too hard.

Nathan Cleverley fights on Sky Sports 2 tonight at 10. Cleverley is probably the most excting new fighter in the country, his last 5 fights or so have looked spectacular.

Cleverley won in eight. I went out after work, got drunk and forgot to record the fight. I really wanted to see it as well. I've been impressed with Cleverley every time I've seen him fight. What's more Courtney Fry, who was his opponent last night, went to the same school as me.

According to the piece about the fight on the BBC website Fry didn't get owned. That's good. Fry was a pretty good amateur. He does have a technical base. It seems he was able to use that base, and his experience, to not get overwhelmed.

Two where are they now questions

Does anyone know what channel is showing Saturday's WBC heavyweight title fight between Vitali Klitschko and Juan Carlos Gomez?

I found this article about Kirkland Laing, who is sometimes referred to as one of the greatest British fighters never to win a world title. He's probably most famous for beating Roberto Duran. I had completely forgotten about Laing until a few years ago. My brother's last job used to bring him round to various cab garages in London. These were invariably in terrible areas and at one in Hackney one of the guys who worked there pointed Kirkland Laing out to him. He looked older than his years, was swigging from a can of super strong cider in the middle of the day and, generally looked like a vagrant. The article, which I stumbled across while looking for something else, was written around the same time and deals with Steve Bunce trawling the estates and streets of Hackney looking for Laing in the hopes of conducting a video interview with him for a short documentary piece. He finds him eventually. If you go the link below, at the top right hand corner of that page, you will be able to view the two short video pieces that go with this article. From...http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_rad...and/3186337.stm

Last Updated: Thursday, 28 August, 2003Finding a lost geniusBy Paul MiddletonBBC boxing producerKirkland Laing was called "The Gifted One", a genius within the confines of the boxing ring. He was an enigmatic individual who never did things the conventional way, and maybe that was his problem - life and boxing came too easily to a man who seemed to have a glorious future ahead of him.The Londoner won the British welterweight title twice, in 1979 and again in 1987, before going on to win the European belt in 1990.But it was for a fight of an altogether tougher nature for which Laing will go down in history - when he beat the great Roberto Duran in a fight that Ring magazine called the Upset of the Year in 1982. Laing dealt with Duran in 10 rounds, but it was the Panamanian who would have the last laugh.After that fight Laing had the world at his feet, he could and should have been a boxing superstar.Instead, he simply disappeared for over a year until the money from the Duran fight ran out and he had to fight again.While Duran went on to earn millions and a place in boxing's hall of fame, Laing vanished - his skill and success fading memories.As a result, he will be remembered for what might have been. If he had had the discipline to go with his talent then who knows what he could have achieved?We went looking for Laing to find out what had happened to him. Our reporter Steve Bunce had heard tales of drugs and alcohol, that Laing was in a bad state.Our search took us to Hackney, and for three days a BBC crew looking vaguely like undercover policemen trawled the area.Laing's council flat was deserted, and all we had to rely on were the vague tales of old men clutching their cans of extra-strong lager.But rumours had filtered through the Hackney underground, and one night Bunce got a call - Laing had agreed to meet us in his local park the next morning.We waited for hours, but eventually a hunched figure, wearing a full-length black coat and sporting a generous beard appeared in the distance. Laing needed a beer to get him going, but once he started all the memories came flooding out, and this dishevelled and broken man started to sound like the champion he once was.At 24 he was British champion, and three years later came his fight with Duran.But it all came too soon, and he admits he was not "mature" enough to cope. His winnings were spent on partying and women - often the night before a fight.In the ring, Laing was so talented he felt he could face anyone in any condition and emerge victorious; outside it his generosity to people he met was ruthlessly exposed.Nine years after his last appearance in the ring - when he was knocked out by Glenn Catley in five rounds - he lives in a world of drink and drugs on a shabby estate in Hackney, living day by day.Our interview put a spark back in his eye as he suddenly remembered what he had achieved - and what he had lost."I sometimes wonder," he said, "imagine if I had been sensible and disciplined. Sometimes I think about that."You can watch Kirkland's story via the video links at the top-right of this page.

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Forgive me if this has been touched on before.I found this across this at DVDVR and found it very interesting.http://board.deathvalleydriver.com/index.php?showtopic=37088

Boxing, moreso than any other sport I can think of, loves to wallow in mystery and conspiracy. It's not surprising given its illegal nature in most of the country up until the early 20th century, but it does leave us with many seemingly contradictory and nebulous factoids to sort through.One whispered rumor that stretches back to the 1920s is this:In 1921, immediately following his record-breaking million-dollar gate fight against Georges Carpentier, heavyweight champion of the world Jack Dempsey quietly drove up to Saskatoon, Canada and, in an illegal prizefight staged by high-roller gamblers, met and knocked out Jack Johnson, the former heavyweight champion who had been released from prison in July of that year.A tall tale perhaps, and one that begs many questions - Dempsey made $300,000 to fight Carpentier, how much could a hundred-or-so high rollers offer the champ for a private bout? The biggest elephant in the ring, of course, is the lack of confirmatory evidence in the papers of the day. Or so I thought.A seller on eBay claims to have an original copy of a 1921 newspaper, "The Brooklyn Eagle", which purportedly has a round-by-round description of the bout as relayed to them from a firsthand source in attendance. Now this rumor of a Dempsey vs Johnson fight stretches all the way back to this period, but neither Dempsey nor Johnson ever confirmed it, or even debunked it to my knowledge. Boxing historian Monte Cox gives the following account of Dempsey's reaction to the rumor:

Lew Eskin, former Boxing Illustrated Editor, wrote an article about it in Dec 1985 Fightbeat magazine. He asked Dempsey about it who was evasive. The only thing Jack would say is he boxed a series of exhibitions during that time. He asked Dempsey if he could publish the story in B.Ill. but Dempsey said, "Not Now" which Eskin took to mean not in his lifetime. The bout with Jack Johnson was allegedly an under the table affair for rich gamblers.

One of the truly intriguing aspects of Jack Dempsey was that as a mature adult world champion, he worked tirelessly to recreate his image as that of a gentleman, and did a good job of it too. He took diction lessons, read a newspaper from front to back every single day, and made every effort to distance himself from gamblers and other shady types (Al Capone was a big Dempsey fan and actually offered to promote Dempsey after Jack split from Doc Kearns - Dempsey quickly and quietly declined). But there is no doubt that during his hardscrabble years as a young hobo and itinerant worker, Dempsey couldn't help but associate with such men - heck, he worked in brothels and speakeasies all over Colorado and Utah! Dempsey was so ashamed of this aspect of his life that he outright denied all of it after his career was over; even the 1917 Fireman Jim Flynn fight in Utah, a dive so blatant that both fighters were chased out of town and boxing banned, is stated by Dempsey himself as being completely on the level - the journeyman Flynn KO'd Dempsey with one punch within 10 seconds (for his part Dempsey took his money, rumored to be $500, and was fighting in California 3 weeks later).So Dempsey was not above doing the bidding of gamblers during his young and hungry years out west. Could he have repaid a favor to some by fighting Jack Johnson in some remote Canadian basement only 4 years after the Flynn debacle? I don't know, but I'd sure be curious to read that article!

I was on boxrec.com looking at the pro record of former world title challenger turned actor Randall "Tex" Cobb. http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=002540Anyway, on the 15th of September, 1992 Cobb fought Sonny Barch. This fight was part of Cobb's brief early 90's comback. The result of the fight was a no contest. The reason...

Both fighters tested positive on cocaine. Originally a TKO win for Cobb.

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Use of house in TV 'sting' probedThe house, near a school, was used for a WCAU-TV news segment on pedophiles. Police cited danger.By Marc SchogolInquirer Staff WriterReacting to calls from residents, Delaware County authorities are investigating a TV station's choice of a Newtown Township neighborhood near an elementary school to use for an Internet sting to lure pedophiles with the prospect of sex with 14-year-old girls and boys.Calling the WCAU-TV (Ch. 10) news investigation "highly dangerous, totally unethical and immoral," township Police Chief Lee Hunter said yesterday, "We want to make sure they are not luring pedophiles into our neighborhoods."At least three men - including one from Maryland - went to the vacant house that WCAU had rented and used on Monday, Newtown Township officials said. Although WCAU has left the house, residents fear more pedophiles who have seen the address on the Internet will appear, so police are making extra patrols of the area.WCAU officials denied any wrongdoing, but Delaware County District Attorney G. Michael Green and Hunter said the NBC station had acted irresponsibly and potentially disastrously in preparing "Perverted Justice," which was scheduled to air on the 11 o'clock news last night - the final night of the February TV "sweeps" rating period.Green, whose office is investigating whether any criminal charges are applicable, said law-enforcement authorities run such sting operations only in controlled situations and locations, and only with highly trained personnel.Without such planning and preparation, Green said, "it was only good luck that no one was injured, no weapons were drawn, no child was attacked, and no citizen who happened to be on the street at that hour was accosted."Hunter added that WCAU had not notified or alerted authorities, who did not know what was happening until neighbors, seeing an unmarked van parked in front of the Rockwood Road home, called police Monday afternoon.WCAU news director Chris Blackman said yesterday that the community was not identified in the "Perverted Justice" report, and there was no reason for concern that more pedophiles would appear, because the Internet no longer would lead them there."The men that showed up were not random pedophiles - they came for specific rendezvous with a fictitious 14-year-old boy or girl they'd established an online relationship with," Blackman said. "They didn't show up to prowl the neighborhood."We would not have done it if we didn't feel confident we had taken appropriate measures to make sure no one was hurt. This wasn't something we went into recklessly."Blackman said he would not respond to speculation that ratings were a factor. "We've been working on it for a while. Let people say what they will."The Marple Newtown school board issued a statement last night, which read in part: "NBC-10's ill-conceived plot, while shamelessly pursuing ratings, shows a callous disregard for our children. That NBC-10 chose to conduct this stunt within 500 yards of a parochial school and just a short distance from two of our elementary schools is further proof of its disregard."In a letter on Tuesday to parents of students at St. Anastasia School, principal Carol A. Cary said: "As you can imagine, our concern is for the safety of our students, in particular those who walk to and from school."Chief of police Lee Hunter has assured me that Channel 10 has been removed from the premises... . It is uncertain, however, if any others tempted by the Internet information will arrive at the house."I ask that you exercise extra caution at this time with regard to your child's safety."On a Web site started by angry neighbors, resident Ed Pelc wrote an open letter to NBC, blasting "the irresponsibility and arrogance of Channel 10 news."Pelc said WCAU had "manufactured news for ratings and greed. You did so with no regard for the safety of our children."Hunter met Tuesday night with 40 to 50 angry residents, who were considering civil legal action if investigators determined no criminal charges were warranted.Hunter added, "Channel 10 is going to be contacted by some very higher-up officials of our community and state." The police chief would not give names but indicated he was referring to elected officials from the Newtown Township area.