*19 YR old Calzaghe* Short documentary

legend. you're a good soul. thanks man Appreciated! I'm just showing respect to a good forum member who appears to have his head screwed on properly. Take it easy bro.

Thanks again. You got green K from me yesterday for posting the vid, btw. legend. you're a good soul. thanks man

make that 10:45 :banana: Thanks again. You got green K from me yesterday for posting the vid, btw.

Great vid mate, cheers.

Thanks star. :banana: make that 10:45 :banana:

I missed it too mate. Think its repeated at 10:30pm Thanks star. :banana:

Yea, because Joe was winning all the British ABA Titles they didn't want to let him go to the olympics but make him fight for more titles caus he was bringing more money for welsh boxing. I don't thoroughly understand it but it's sooo stupid. But if Joe went to the olympics would he be the long reigning champ he is today??? Yeah man he actually says in the book that it probabaly turned out the right way, because he would have been rich after the gold medal and wouldnt have the drive that kept him undefeated and a champion for a decade+.

Damn, missed it. Will it be repeated, you think? I missed it too mate. Think its repeated at 10:30pm

Joe would have won a gold medal, no doubt about it.

Yeah I read in his autobiography that they wouldnt let him have a box-off to get to Barcelona, they just refused him and let some other kid from Cardiff who didn't end up getting far at all. Yea, because Joe was winning all the British ABA Titles they didn't want to let him go to the olympics but make him fight for more titles caus he was bringing more money for welsh boxing. I don't thoroughly understand it but it's sooo stupid. But if Joe went to the olympics would he be the long reigning champ he is today???

Yea thx, it's on at 6:30pm. Gonna watch it when having food :) Damn, missed it. Will it be repeated, you think?

wow, he's so young. I bet he doesn't even know he's gay yet in that video

They were if you were Welsh, with recession, Mining dissappearing from the area, unemployment....Boxing would seem the ideal way to break out of the area (although Joe still lives there). Enzo's had a bit more hair as well!! The wierdest thing is that a year after that film was made Joe knocked out the 1992 Olympic Silver medalist and future HW champ Chris Byrd in a middleweight tournament!! How the fuck did he not go to Barcelona!!! I think the Telegraph online has a piece about Enzo saying it was down to politics in the Welsh ABA at the time, they must be looking like a proper bunch of cunts now The reason Joe didn't go to Barcelona is because they wouldn't allow Enzo in his corner.

Incredible. What impressed me most was how humble and intelligent he semed even at what, 18, 19. Not a trace of the agressive chav in him, and this from some kid from Cardiff who by the sound of it had every amateur title going at the time. He still seems the same now too. ________ Chrysler neon engine

wow that video is fuckin bleak. I'm thoroughly depressed now. lol. It was a typical valleys mining town which went down hill when the pits closed leaving a type of town not unlike Youngstown Ohio after the steel industry collapsed in the USA . When a town has its main employer taken away, its like tearing the soul from a place, heavy industry was, in many ways, the community, once it fell, those businesses that thrived of of it went down like dominos......fucking depressing but a spur for the right type of characters, excellence generally rises to the top, especially in boxing.

wow that video is fuckin bleak. I'm thoroughly depressed now. lol.

shouldnt he be in las vegas tho I take it you didn't watch the video, or read the thread title, or read any messages in this thread. :cop:

shouldnt he be in las vegas tho

Good video joes looking very young there tho he would want to up his training for b-hop Yeah 'cause every 19 year old boxer trains like a top 10 P4p pro.

how come joes still in wales in that vid