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wayne - Mon Feb 8 17:31:08 GMT 2010 (host86-182-89-206.range86-182.btcentralplus.com)

Having a quick look there are actually some easy ones as well. The problem from what i can make out is the questions are more suited to a pub quiz type scenario as a lot of the answers i would imagine can be googled. Whereas the type of questions Raida puts here are generally non googable. Il look through and pick a few out though.

knoxie - Mon Feb 8 15:12:16 GMT 2010 (mail.cls-communication.com)

Do you want to put some to the floor Wayne?

wayne - Mon Feb 8 12:19:17 GMT 2010 (host86-182-89-206.range86-182.btcentralplus.com)

Just won the "ultimate boxing quiz book" that bm were giving out with subs a few months back. The questions look really difficult, dont think il be getting many correct answers.

wayne - Sun Feb 7 16:58:17 GMT 2010 (host86-182-89-206.range86-182.btcentralplus.com)

Remember Howard Clarke? Dident realise he was in such a bad way with a terminal illness. Some type of dementia apparently.

gary knox - Thu Feb 4 23:52:43 GMT 2010 (5ad25100.bb.sky.com)

May 1 for Money-Mosley, it seems. Hope Max Kellerman manages to keep discipline in the post-fight chat unlike post-Marquez. Well done, Brian Magee!! He's emulated another Belfast boy who won European title the hard way many moons ago, Rsy Close. Good luck to Brian, he's stuck at it and is a true pro.

iknow - Thu Feb 4 19:59:35 GMT 2010 (89.242.121.199)

Dear BM readers...testing

Neil1690 - Tue Feb 2 18:47:41 GMT 2010 (92.26.97.169)

Dear BM readers...

Alright Khany, hows things...? Hope you are still championing socialism on your travels...

On a boxing note, Hopkins-Jones Jr II. seriously what is the point?

I will be boycotting anything and everything to do with this 'bout'..

Khany - Tue Feb 2 15:16:20 GMT 2010 (85.12.64.148)

Dear BM readers...

Poor Frank warren. lost another signing.

Hopefully he'l carry on ok.

Khany - Tue Feb 2 15:06:15 GMT 2010 (85.12.64.148)

Dear BM readers...

BTW,

Pacqio shouldn't have fallen for Floyds pre fight stratergy of trying to win by playing mind games. I hope the fight happens at some point and pacqio gives Floyd the spanking he's so been asking for his whole career! Boy that would be sweet, seeing him on his back, looking all bewildered like Mike Moorer was in his fight against Foreman or the hilarious looks of Carl The Truth Williams that time when he failed to react against the standing count and Rich Steel called the fight off!

"I never got a chance to show my stuff"! Still gets me, even now! hehe.

Khany - Tue Feb 2 15:01:40 GMT 2010 (85.12.64.148)

Dear BM readers...

Hi Everyone,

The site must have been having problems last time I tried posting, wasn't putting my posts up.

I probably won't see the responses, actually I'l wiki it.

R.I.P. Arturu Gatti and Terry Lawless.

First time I've posted since they've passed on. If it was Gatti's wife that killed him, I wonder if a certain poster i fell out with on how vindictive women can be feels about that now? I stick to my original views on that.

At least one other high profile death there has beeb since I last posted, can't remember who though, perhaps Greg Page, R.I.P. as well for poor greg.

Hope everyone else is doing good.

Good to see you still on here Conk, laters all.

Khany - Tue Feb 2 14:57:19 GMT 2010 (85.12.64.148)

Dear BM readers...

Testing

Belcher - Fri Jan 29 11:43:39 GMT 2010 (82.50.242.130)

here's a nice little article on drugs in boxing. Pretty obvious there is scope to have serious abuse in the sport.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/boxing/8485892.stm

Colesy - Wed Jan 27 03:26:10 GMT 2010 (pool-71-182-83-90.ptldor.fios.verizon.net)

Dear BM readers...

The media in the US overlook the clear case of Gridiron players on juice. There are plenty of ex players who admit they have seen it in the locker room.

Soooo much money in Football in the US doubt the media will make that much of it.

Baseball is on the slide though and is no longer the American game, long ago passed by Football and Basketball. NBA probably has there fair share of roid users but the media overlook that as well.

Also HBO hardly called Toney or RJJ to task over their drug taking.

Frowned on is probably the correct phrase to use.

Belcher - Fri Jan 22 11:10:10 GMT 2010 (82.50.242.130)

I remember Billy Schwer losing a title shot against a drug cheat. Billy later stated he had a go on this specific bongo juice in trainning one day. He said the results were phenomenal. Drugs make a considerable difference, and the culture of acceptance in the USA, probably less now than in the 80s, 90s and beginning of the 2000s, meant there was absolutely no need not to take drugs. Sports are riddled with substance abuse. Cycling is a joke, AMerican Football, baseball and. . erm. . .Wrestling? are steroid abuser's dreams.

Difficult to catch them if you don't really want to, and particularly in a sport when out of competition drug testing is non-existant (In boxing, if random dope testers turn up at the door, just do a Mayweather and say you're retired.)

urbanraida - Fri Jan 22 00:44:35 GMT 2010 (92.8.227.237)

Dear BM readers...I really am not quite sure what to think on the subject of drug cheats. Are some fighters misguided or just out and out cheats? Look at RJJ. His transgression was against Richard Hall.

Yeah, Richard F'N Hall. Roy, at that time, could have had gone out their with a missing limb and you would have still had trouble finding someone willing to place their money on Ricky boy. Or, on the flip side was it merely the first time Roy was caught? After all he only fought in Vegas 6 or 7 (not much in relation to his standing and domination in the sport) times I think and they of course are seen as the world leaders in the fight world when it comes to drug testing. Makes you think doesn't it? It's Roy Jones and I just can't think of him, as talented as he was, as a cheat. But the evidence says he bloody is. What do YOU think?

I recall Roy saying that the positive result was due to some sort of sports drink or medication that was not on the list of acceptable substances/liquids at the time.

Shane Mosley, who's name is muddied a lot, lot more than Roy's is currently seen as one of the sports very best. Yet he admitted to having an injection into his stomach, though at the time says he was not aware it was a performance enhancing drug. If memory serves me correctly a conditioning expert named Darryl Hudson was the man who recommended the injection. In a recent interview with Ring Magazine, Jeff Ryan, who has been extremly critical of Mosley since the incident, pushed, prodded and cajoled Mosley into commenting on the matter. Shane didn't.

I'm amazed PBF hasn't called a press conference asking for Mosley to have every drop of blood extracted from his body once a week until fight night for Floyd's personal inspection or else he won't fight. Anyways I dont think it will be a great fight, Mayweather will poke and prod his way to victory and the Mosley that mullahed Margarito will be mere memory.

James Toney tested positive not once but twice. And even got one of the resulting bans reduced on appeal! And his opponent for the fight in which he failed the test the second time, the mighty, mighty Danny Betchelder tested positive too. The quintessential dirty fight, you might say.

Just last week baseball legend Mark McGwire admitted that during the best seasons of his career he too was using performance enhancing drugs.

Major League Baseball is riddled with lousy cheaters who's records still stand and are worshipped by fans and celebrities alike. Perhaps boxing and it's powerbrokers would like nothing more than to emulate it.

Bloody Yanks.

Chaars.

wayne - Thu Jan 21 22:24:13 GMT 2010 (host81-148-253-153.range81-148.btcentralplus.com)

Dear BM readers...Dont know why but drug taking in boxing dosent seem to get the attention that it does in other sports. It gets a mention but then forgotten about.

Neil1690 - Thu Jan 21 20:02:17 GMT 2010 (92.25.168.155)

Dear BM readers...


They will probably all get in on the first ballot. The Shane Mosley one baffles me. People are always going on about Shane not getting breaks and deserving the very biggest fights yet the guy is a self confessed cheat.

It will be interesting to see what stipulations Mayweather puts in the contract if those two agree to meet after Berto's pullout. I would have thought if he was serious about trying to 'clean up' the game then he would be even more insistent on Mosley being tested up until the day of the contest given his past history.

Incidentally Conky, or any of the other resident anorak's here- has anyone seen Juan Manuel Lopez fight...?

I have heard rave reviews, however I have yet to see him in the flesh for myself. The bookies have him at 1/6 to take Steven Luevano's world title on the 24th of this month and Luevano at 7/2.

7/2 looks a big price on an established world class figher against a challenger who, based on his record anyway, could be classed as largely unproven at the highest level.

Mrconk - Thu Jan 21 15:53:12 GMT 2010 (77.101.47.86)

Neil - of course they should. Disgraceful carry on!

gary knox - Thu Jan 21 15:29:22 GMT 2010 (85.31.137.11)

Heard on readio todat that Manny wants to fight Money this year, after all. I wonder if Manny's on gear...after all, his ascent through the weight classes does seem too good to be true. What weight to ghosts fight at? PHANTOM WEIGHT!!!

Neil1690 - Wed Jan 20 22:22:02 GMT 2010 (78.148.167.236)

Dear BM readers...

Very true Ade, however I personally do not consider Vargas to be worthy of hall of fame consideration. You could throw in Jones Jr who was found guilty of doping after his light-heavyweight defence against Richard Hall, and subsequently unpunished bizarrely enough.

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