N E Fighters U Met???

[Super Cruiserweight]

oh an ive met jefflacy ,derrick gainer, roy jones sr,vince phillips ,billy lewis. notroy jones jr yet but desperate 2

[JUYJUY]

so juyjuy whos da best u sparred with frm those 5 in order

1. Ryan Rhodes
Very awkward, unorthodox, yes he slaps you but his shots are hard as **** and he doesn't like to give you time to settle.

2. Dean Francis
Very strong, you punch him hard and his body doesn't move, when he corners you or has you near the ropes then your done for.

The rest were about equal, maybe Eastman just slightly ahead of Catley and Brown but really those three were about equal. Brown was awkward and it was awkward to prevent his right hand even if his right hand wasn't landing cleanly it was awkward to prevent it, Eastman was heavy handed and you didn't know when he was going to open up, Catley was a brawler even in sparring he'd be at your chest and if he wasn't he was difficult to catch cleanly anyway.


Make no mistake, if Eastman fought his heroes Benn, Eubank and Watson they'd beat him more convincingly than Hopkins did.

[J !]

catley and francis, take it you boxed in the sanigers gym then.

for my part,

hatton, calzaghe, danny wililams, matt skelton, kevin mitchell, scott dixon, derek williams, mike aldiss, gary woolcombe, mike gomez, nigel benn,

thise just off the top of my head.

also interviewed saniger fighter Scott Dann and speak with promoters from time to time.
http://www.britishboxing.net/?page=news&id=389

http://www.britishboxing.net/?page=news&id=47

[theironone]

Junior Witter
Carl Froch
Carl Greaves
Esham Pickering
Pele Reid
Ryan Rhodes
Marvin Hagler
Chris Eubank
Jason Booth
Jon Thaxton

Me and the wife would love to go to a big card in the US, she always is the one who shouts them over after i've said theres soandso, i never like to approach them if there with other people and its not a boxing show, always seems a bit rude, even tho i've never had one to tell me to **** off or owt.
One of my wifes uncles is quite a well known soap actor and i'll never forget when we were all out to dinner one night a load of women were shouting and jeering him and i thought **** off were eating, let the man finish his ****in tea first, and i always thought how rude they were and i wouldn't want to come across like that.

[J !]

im with you on that one mate, forgot to add the sky pundits, nelson, mcguigan, glenn mcrory, nikkie piper, spencer oliver.

its not hard though if you are press ringside, these guys actually walk past you at least once or twice in the evening.

actually the guy that runs the BBN is big mates with Thaxton, does his site for him as well.

[theironone]

I met him and reid at a show at newark quite a few years ago now, both really nice lads, well actually all of them have been that i've not paid to go and see, i bumped into a couple on the street, saw boothy at the pics at nottingham and went over to him then saw him again outside a couple of hours laters and he had a bit of a chat which i thought was pretty good of him

[J !]

nice one, botths are form notts arent they..... how is nicky booth getitng on is he on the road to recovery or still down on his luck?

also mate what going on with Jawaid? Seems tro have vaniahsed when he wa on the verge of being top ten ranked....shame.

[theironone]

Yes they are,I seen Jaw running ages ago i nearly ****in crashed too cos i was rubber necking making sure it was him Hes not fought for ages tho so not sure what the crack is.
I think nickys clean but his still struggling to get over it, i used to like watching him fight, good domestic level fighter - game as

[J !]

spot on, thanks mate, everyone seems to keep asking bout Jawaid and i neverhave anyhting to tell em.

seems notts is our own bermuda triangle for fighters, just kidding.

Glkad to hear nicky is on the mend. If you do hear anythign drop me aline, always good to hear updates mate. cheers

[JUYJUY]

Yeah mate I trained alongside Jane Couch every day. Francis only came to the Empire four weeks before a fight to tune-up kind of thing, he mostly trained at his Dad's place in Basingstoke.