The **BOXING** thread

[tuscaneer]

Amirhussain said:

Miguel Cotto, TKO.

ah yeah, last round stoppage...forgot about that........still 6 years ago though!!

[Amirhussain]

tuscaneer said:

Amirhussain said:

Miguel Cotto, TKO.

ah yeah, last round stoppage...forgot about that........still 6 years ago though!!

I remember when he destroyed Antonio Margarito, that was one of the worst beatings I seen in a boxing ring. Utter annihilation.

[briangriffin]

tuscaneer said:

i'm worse than bird when it comes to memorabilia!!!! i get something nice, put it up then the room looks unbalanced and i have to buy something else to even it up. i've spilled out onto the landing from the memorabilia room now and i'm starting to get earache!!

i had to break the news to her indoors last night about the belt and was proper in the book....she knows only too well now that it'll end up mounted with plaques and photos and take up another half a wall1...

i get the vintage glove back from the framers tonight..6 photos to go with the signatures and name plaques with records on...can't wait.. i'll stick a photo up when i get a minute

Where do you get your memorabilia from mate and what have you got in your collection?

I'm just starting on my Man room now as my memorabilia is being demoted from the living room with the missus moving in. The room is half full already

[tuscaneer]

briangriffin said:

Where do you get your memorabilia from mate and what have you got in your collection?

I'm just starting on my Man room now as my memorabilia is being demoted from the living room with the missus moving in. The room is half full already

ha!! I had stuff dotted all over the house and she suddenly had a fit and fked me off to the top of the house....it's worked out pretty good although I've filled the room with stuff and it's then spilled out onto the landing and started creeping down the stairs.....



champsuk is a good start!!.... loads of unusual stuff with plenty off provenance.......just don't go on there pissed because you could go buck wild with some of their stuff!

I try to avoid ebay at all costs because there's just too many conmen there. however, the klitschko belt I bought I found somewhere else but led me to the guy's ebay account.....provenance is excellent , doesn't get better than a photo of wladimir holding the actual belt!!

all star signing sessions are pretty cool...I like getting me photo took with fighters ( got about 17/18 ex champions with me) and a lot of these were done at places like Birmingham nec over the years. pretty good days generally and there's always a stload of other memorabilia on sale that you can inspect first hand before you buy.

lastly, after dinner speaking engagements are great. I've done loads like eubank, duran, Tyson , la motta etc......good to get your photos and good to bid in the auctions...but alcohol may make you brave unless you know the values of what you're bidding on!!

another hot tip is to get framing done yourself wherever possible. I bought that old glove with the 6 signatures on and it cost me 120 quid to get it framed just how I want it. 6 photos of the fighters downloaded off the internet and printed out for 80p each coupled with their records printed on little plaques...looks the bks!!

i'd upload a photo but it keeps saying file too large.....if anyone can help here i'm all ears

[briangriffin]

I've browsed ChampsUK quite a bit but havn't bought anything as of yet. Pound4Pound memorbilia on FB have sole me a few programmes though.

I tend to try and get gloves signed myself though, If i go to a fight i tend to aim to be Ringside or as close as possible. Take a small black sports bag in with me with 4 gloves in it generally and you'll always bump into someone and get a signature you know is genuine. Had Khan, Kessler, Haye, Bellew, Calzaghe, Maccaranelli, Ward, Hatton and a few more via this method.

Justify the price of the ringside tickets then as if i'd have bought those gloves off a website it'd prob even out.

Bought a Sugar Ray leonard signed and immaculately framed WBC world Champ belt at a speaking event a few years ago that's been my major extravagance but what I paid is probably a lot less than the belt and framing would cost without the signature.

Check out an artist called Geo Thompson on FB or here: http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/geo-thomson.htm...
i've got a few of his painting in my place and a personalised one of me fighting too.

[tuscaneer]

briangriffin said:

I've browsed ChampsUK quite a bit but havn't bought anything as of yet. Pound4Pound memorbilia on FB have sole me a few programmes though.

I tend to try and get gloves signed myself though, If i go to a fight i tend to aim to be Ringside or as close as possible. Take a small black sports bag in with me with 4 gloves in it generally and you'll always bump into someone and get a signature you know is genuine. Had Khan, Kessler, Haye, Bellew, Calzaghe, Maccaranelli, Ward, Hatton and a few more via this method.

Justify the price of the ringside tickets then as if i'd have bought those gloves off a website it'd prob even out.

Bought a Sugar Ray leonard signed and immaculately framed WBC world Champ belt at a speaking event a few years ago that's been my major extravagance but what I paid is probably a lot less than the belt and framing would cost without the signature.

Check out an artist called Geo Thompson on FB or here: http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/geo-thomson.htm...
i've got a few of his painting in my place and a personalised one of me fighting too.

not really looked at pound4pound before but some cheap stuff there!.....my bag is always the older stuff but i still get the modern stuff as well. leonard belt sounds cool pal, i bid for and got a hagler/hearns/leonard/duran montage at the mike tyson after dinner event up here a few years ago..

i like the dated letters the best...i got the henry armstrong one the other week , wasn't cheap but i took an instant liking to it. i was at the nec years ago and picked up a signed gene tunney letter as well.

i've got stloads of gloves but what i'm after now is a gatti one to go with my micky ward one....those two in one frame would be fking mint!!

my klitschko wba belt hasn'y arrived yet but i can't wait to get me mitts on that.

i don't get to as many fights as i used to but that's a cracking idea about taking a bag of gloves and getting them signed in person......just remember to get pictures of you and the fighter holding the glove so that your grandkids can cash in fifty years down the line!!

like that geo thompson stuff...boss idea to get your own done. i took stills off youtube of mine and got a few photos in a frame with one of the tickets for the show...looks pretty good.

i used to study fine art many moons ago and i've done a few myself. dempsey training for willard in 1919 done in charcoal pencil and marciano landing a straight right on archie moore done in maroon and metallic paint. sounds a bit weird but the result was pretty cool.

[Amirhussain]

GGG v Willie Monroe, 16th May. Possible unification fight with Miguel Cotto soon.

[philv]

scorp said:

I'm not sure that's true, Mayweathers record suggests he's not the heaviest puncher, I remember Hatton remarking post fight that Floyd hit a lot harder than he expected. I re-watched Mayweather vs Gatti over the weekend and noticed how uncomfortable and discouraged Gatti looked getting hit.

Hatton more or less threw his face at mayweather's gloves.
His defence was so poor and wreckless.
No surprise he got knocked out going up against the best 2 in tne wirld.

[tuscaneer]

Amirhussain said:

GGG v Willie Monroe, 16th May. Possible unification fight with Miguel Cotto soon.

monroe is a good fighter.....but i'd pick murray over him so that should tell you how i think ggg/monroe will go down!!

[briangriffin]

tuscaneer said:

not really looked at pound4pound before but some cheap stuff there!.....my bag is always the older stuff but i still get the modern stuff as well. leonard belt sounds cool pal, i bid for and got a hagler/hearns/leonard/duran montage at the mike tyson after dinner event up here a few years ago..

i like the dated letters the best...i got the henry armstrong one the other week , wasn't cheap but i took an instant liking to it. i was at the nec years ago and picked up a signed gene tunney letter as well.

i've got stloads of gloves but what i'm after now is a gatti one to go with my micky ward one....those two in one frame would be fking mint!!

my klitschko wba belt hasn'y arrived yet but i can't wait to get me mitts on that.

i don't get to as many fights as i used to but that's a cracking idea about taking a bag of gloves and getting them signed in person......just remember to get pictures of you and the fighter holding the glove so that your grandkids can cash in fifty years down the line!!

like that geo thompson stuff...boss idea to get your own done. i took stills off youtube of mine and got a few photos in a frame with one of the tickets for the show...looks pretty good.

i used to study fine art many moons ago and i've done a few myself. dempsey training for willard in 1919 done in charcoal pencil and marciano landing a straight right on archie moore done in maroon and metallic paint. sounds a bit weird but the result was pretty cool.

You'll have to upload those you've done yourself mate!would love to see them.

it's been brilliant taking the gloves to fights, even tweeted Natasha Jonas before Froch v Bute and she told me where she was sitting so i could get a glove signed. Lovely girl and stunning in person

I've got an old boxing news from the war and some boxing news covering tyson for xmas so they'll be going up on the wall soon. So my older collection will build too hopefully.

Really want to get my hands on some fight worn stuff though that would be awesome, remember seeing some Muhammad Ali hand wraps in Vegas years ago which i could probably have just about afforded at a push always going to regret not getting them i reckon they're prob worth 2 or 3 times as much already.

[nick s]

Amirhussain said:

tuscaneer said:

yeah, not gonna fall out with you fella!!......but 26 ko's on 47 fights.....!! his last legit stoppage was hatton (i'm not counting that victor ortiz fight for obvious reasons)...before that i'm struggling..was it as far back as gatti?? i think it was....

mind you, where's the pacman of old?? he hasn't stopped anyone since de la hoya i think??

Miguel Cotto, TKO.

I was at that fight... unbelievable atmosphere!!! Pacquiao hasn't been the same since the Margarito fight IMO.

I was a huge Pacquiao fan, and if this fight was happening in 2009/2010 I'd put my money on the pacman all day... in 2015 I'm going for Mayweather. Mayweather knows that aswell... There's a reason this fight didn't happen 5/6 years ago, and it's nothing to do with negotiations!

[tuscaneer]

briangriffin said:

tuscaneer said:

not really looked at pound4pound before but some cheap stuff there!.....my bag is always the older stuff but i still get the modern stuff as well. leonard belt sounds cool pal, i bid for and got a hagler/hearns/leonard/duran montage at the mike tyson after dinner event up here a few years ago..

i like the dated letters the best...i got the henry armstrong one the other week , wasn't cheap but i took an instant liking to it. i was at the nec years ago and picked up a signed gene tunney letter as well.

i've got stloads of gloves but what i'm after now is a gatti one to go with my micky ward one....those two in one frame would be fking mint!!

my klitschko wba belt hasn'y arrived yet but i can't wait to get me mitts on that.

i don't get to as many fights as i used to but that's a cracking idea about taking a bag of gloves and getting them signed in person......just remember to get pictures of you and the fighter holding the glove so that your grandkids can cash in fifty years down the line!!

like that geo thompson stuff...boss idea to get your own done. i took stills off youtube of mine and got a few photos in a frame with one of the tickets for the show...looks pretty good.

i used to study fine art many moons ago and i've done a few myself. dempsey training for willard in 1919 done in charcoal pencil and marciano landing a straight right on archie moore done in maroon and metallic paint. sounds a bit weird but the result was pretty cool.

You'll have to upload those you've done yourself mate!would love to see them.

it's been brilliant taking the gloves to fights, even tweeted Natasha Jonas before Froch v Bute and she told me where she was sitting so i could get a glove signed. Lovely girl and stunning in person

I've got an old boxing news from the war and some boxing news covering tyson for xmas so they'll be going up on the wall soon. So my older collection will build too hopefully.

Really want to get my hands on some fight worn stuff though that would be awesome, remember seeing some Muhammad Ali hand wraps in Vegas years ago which i could probably have just about afforded at a push always going to regret not getting them i reckon they're prob worth 2 or 3 times as much already.

the fight worn stuff is the bks.....but expensive!! I wouldn't want to guess how much fight worn ali hand wraps would be worth now but his signature alone is north of a grand already..

the one that got away for me was a telegram sent by jim Jeffries to his wife from the train after he'd just knocked out bob fitzimmons for the title in 1899.......

it ended up selling for about 1200 quid!! that was a decade ago but I bet it's worth a fking mint now!!

[Katzenjammer]

Don't think I've posted here before, but am a massive boxing fan, with a short but illustious amateur career (aged 8-16!) and even fought on the same bill as Wayne McCullough back in the day. My mother's uncle was an undisputed world champion and so have fond memories of wearing his Lonsdale Belt as a nipper. As far as memorabilia goes nothing of amy value and limited to a few signed photos - McGuigan, McCullough, Nigel Benn, Henry Cooper, and signed copies of all of McGuigan's fight promotional posters from '85 onwards.

[tuscaneer]

Katzenjammer said:

Don't think I've posted here before, but am a massive boxing fan, with a short but illustious amateur career (aged 8-16!) and even fought on the same bill as Wayne McCullough back in the day. My mother's uncle was an undisputed world champion and so have fond memories of wearing his Lonsdale Belt as a nipper. As far as memorabilia goes nothing of amy value and limited to a few signed photos - McGuigan, McCullough, Nigel Benn, Henry Cooper, and signed copies of all of McGuigan's fight promotional posters from '85 onwards.

welcome to the party!!


same bill as wayne McCullough hey, showing your age there fella......you old fart (but not as old as me!!)

who's the world champion in the family mate?

i'm led to believe my great great grandfather on my mother's side was a bareknuckle navy champion but I haven't really tried to dig any deeper yet..

[dirty boy]

Welcome Katzen!

I have absolutely no pedigree whatsoever, my grandfather and his brothers were all boxers, with Uncle Buster allegedly being a heavyweight champ in the army.

I personally got KO'd in my very first sparring session (with headgear) sufficient for me give up and become nothing more than a spectator



Moving on quickly....but slightly off topic....

I'm attending a 'boxing fancy dress party' on none other than the 2 May for obvious reasons.

I'm tempted to go the Naz route, black my hair, leopard print shorts, fake tan...

I'd love some ideas of other well known boxers that are more distinguishable than most. However, bear in mind i'm a white male.

Steve Collins?

Butterbean (may need a crash mega eating diet of some sort for that one)

Hatton

Could even go the Tyson route (short Tyson) black shorts, henna tattoo on the face.

Help!

[briangriffin]

James 'Cinderella man' Braddock?

Get a dress and boxing gloves and you're sorted hahahaha

[briangriffin]

or Apollo Creed and do the whole get-up from Rocky 4. 'living in America'

[Katzenjammer]

tuscaneer said:

welcome to the party!!


same bill as wayne McCullough hey, showing your age there fella......you old fart (but not as old as me!!)

who's the world champion in the family mate?

This legend...World flyweight champ. (I'm 38 btw)

dirty boy said:

Welcome Katzen!

I have absolutely no pedigree whatsoever, my grandfather and his brothers were all boxers, with Uncle Buster allegedly being a heavyweight champ in the army.

I personally got KO'd in my very first sparring session (with headgear) sufficient for me give up and become nothing more than a spectator

Cheers. I'd say many's a great fighter got clobbered the first time* they entered the ring...you should have stuck with it...you could have been a contender!

• aged 7, probably

[Gerradi]

dirty boy said:

Moving on quickly....but slightly off topic....

I'm attending a 'boxing fancy dress party' on none other than the 2 May for obvious reasons.

I'm tempted to go the Naz route, black my hair, leopard print shorts, fake tan...

I'd love some ideas of other well known boxers that are more distinguishable than most. However, bear in mind i'm a white male.

Steve Collins?

Butterbean (may need a crash mega eating diet of some sort for that one)

Hatton

Could even go the Tyson route (short Tyson) black shorts, henna tattoo on the face.

Help!

Billy Walker ...

[Yiliterate]

Get yourself a pair of glasses, false moustache, a dirty great cigar and one of these:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/400877425824?nav=SEARCH

And don't forget to post a few photos on here!!!