put your case forward why your city has the best boxing heritage....

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most people love there home town and will defend it to the hills, even against the odds. this thread is to put forwards your reasons why you think your home town is the true heart of the boxing world, name the great champions and any boxing related claim to fames....

i'll start, firstly my home town is sheffield and its the best boxing city because....

it is home to the one and only prince naseem hamed, and his one time gym mate bredon ingle, and ryan rhodes. it's also home to old time legend "bomber" graham and is still home to his gym. we have the institute of sport where the olympic team train. it is also home to curtis woodhouse who recently lost a questionable SD to frank gavin, as well as huge heavyweight prospect richard "inferno" towers.

our biggest hope at the moment is kell brook, who recently defeat tough opponent n'dou, in sheffield, he actually walked to the fight from his home as he lived across the road.

Badger - logged in cos I remembered it was the Collins brothers, Georgie and the others. Georgie Snr was a boxer too. Got that backsides kicked at Rackstraws one night too...

Years ago I tried to look into where the fight was in Farnborough. My dad was raised there, so asked him (not that he would have seen it but because he might have heard). He said in his youth it was rumoured the Ship was a bareknuckle venue.

I looked on the internet and there was very little. But found something that said it was between Frimley station and Farborough. Then my bro said he had been told it was in the grounds of Farnborough Hill. The Ship isn't so far. So, maybe similar place. Story goes, people bought tickets to nowhere, from London. Farmers hired out their carts so people could sit on the back so if the police turned up they could ride off with them. All rumour, I've not seen it written anywhere. But silly Rushmoor Council don't make more of it.

Happytravelling wrote:Badger - logged in cos I remembered it was the Collins brothers, Georgie and the others. Georgie Snr was a boxer too. Got that backsides kicked at Rackstraws one night too...

Years ago I tried to look into where the fight was in Farnborough. My dad was raised there, so asked him (not that he would have seen it but because he might have heard). He said in his youth it was rumoured the Ship was a bareknuckle venue.

I looked on the internet and there was very little. But found something that said it was between Frimley station and Farborough. Then my bro said he had been told it was in the grounds of Farnborough Hill. The Ship isn't so far. So, maybe similar place. Story goes, people bought tickets to nowhere, from London. Farmers hired out their carts so people could sit on the back so if the police turned up they could ride off with them. All rumour, I've not seen it written anywhere. But silly Rushmoor Council don't make more of it.

I should have remembered the Collins brothers.

I watched one of them fight Kirkland Laing in Reading.

The cheapie bookshop in Farnborough had a book on the Heenan Sayers fight, written by a local author. If I find the name of it I'll let you know.

Rackstraws!!! That takes me back

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bhb001 wrote:Weaverham
[Extracted from The Knowwhere Guide]
All the great weaverham boxers who fought in the A.B.A.championships howard furmston, karl griffiths,peter adams,kevin dunne, karl furmston

right bhb001, this is scary.....I used to live in Weaverham. Small world.

Tino, my condolences. But glad to here you got out!

bhb001 wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

bhb001 wrote:Weaverham
[Extracted from The Knowwhere Guide]
All the great weaverham boxers who fought in the A.B.A.championships howard furmston, karl griffiths,peter adams,kevin dunne, karl furmston

right bhb001, this is scary.....I used to live in Weaverham. Small world.

Tino, my condolences. But glad to here you got out!

bhb001, I used to live near to the cricket club but this was years ago. There are worse places to be though mate!

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

bhb001 wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

bhb001 wrote:Weaverham
[Extracted from The Knowwhere Guide]
All the great weaverham boxers who fought in the A.B.A.championships howard furmston, karl griffiths,peter adams,kevin dunne, karl furmston

right bhb001, this is scary.....I used to live in Weaverham. Small world.

Tino, my condolences. But glad to here you got out!

bhb001, I used to live near to the cricket club but this was years ago. There are worse places to be though mate!

I got out for 20 years, but got sucked back in a few years back. Not a lot has changed in that time, though! Except the Salter isn't there anymore

I'm from Leeds, for such a big city we haven't had many good boxers =/

In Nottingham we have Carl Froch and Jason Booth.
Also we have UFC fighter Dan Hardy (unless he lose his next fight), and one of the most exciting stand up fighters in MMA Paul Daley.
Not forgetting the undefeated EBU hevyweight champion Daz 'Raging Bull' Davis.