Randolph Turpin doc/film (64 Day Hero - from the 80s). Excellent. Fact.

[Fenster]

Earlier in the week I was having a little debate about what makes fighters "great." Anyway, it got me thinking about Turpin, who beat Ray Robinson, as i'm sure you're all aware. I was thinking that maybe he doesn't get the adulation for beating the "greatest" fighter in history that one would expect.

I stumbled upon this "unflattering" doc from the 80s.

- He was a bully
- Womaniser
- Woman beater
- Spunked all his dough (the equivalent of millions today)
- Was conned out of his dough by parasites
- By 30 was skint and working in a scrap metal yard
- Attempted to kill his daughter
- Aged 38 committed suicide - shot himself in the head then heart

Some story.

[Beanflicker]

Damn bro that sounds like a good find, I gotta check it out when I get home. I don't know dick about the guy other than the SRR fight.

[Beanz]

One hell of a story, at turns both glorious and grubby. Randolph Adolphous Turpin much more elegant in that final fateful letter than on the balcony at Leamington Spa. At turns full of unstoppable courage, and at others belittling cowardice, it is a small but epic film that makes one equally proud and ashamed to be born and raised on this verdant Isle. The Leamington licker who handed out and took some frightful punishment, and exhibited no little grace and skill, with a thunderous punching power, that when not fueled by desire seemed to desert him. There is the comic foil of a fighter, who was anything but a fencer, marrying a Welsh beauty queen who now looks like Peter Kay, and the ugly parody of Wrestling injuring him more than boxing. It is such a fitting film in which just to keep the unlikeliness of the story intact, presents us with an accountant, whose heartfelt and unfortunately ever prescient tribute, reminds us of the fate that many of those who fight for a living, have to in the end, fight for the scraps of a life, and lends his testimony more understated gravitas and truth because of his brown attire and colourless delivery.

Brilliant find Fenster. Both made my Day and left me gutted. You Glorious Wanker

[Fenster]

One hell of a story, at turns both glorious and grubby. Randolph Adolphous Turpin much more elegant in that final fateful letter than on the balcony at Leamington Spa. At turns full of unstoppable courage, and at others belittling cowardice, it is a small but epic film that makes one equally proud and ashamed to be born and raised on this verdant Isle. The Leamington licker who handed out and took some frightful punishment, and exhibited no little grace and skill, with a thunderous punching power, that when not fueled by desire seemed to desert him. There is the comic foil of a fighter, who was anything but a fencer, marrying a Welsh beauty queen who now looks like Peter Kay, and the ugly parody of Wrestling injuring him more than boxing. It is such a fitting film in which just to keep the unlikeliness of the story intact, presents us with an accountant, whose heartfelt and unfortunately ever prescient tribute, reminds us of the fate that many of those who fight for a living, have to in the end, fight for the scraps of a life, and lends his testimony more understated gravitas and truth because of his brown attire and colourless delivery.

Brilliant find Fenster. Both made my Day and left me gutted. You Glorious Wanker

Wish I had wrote this post. Excellent.

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

Earlier in the week I was having a little debate about what makes fighters "great." Anyway, it got me thinking about Turpin, who beat Ray Robinson, as i'm sure you're all aware. I was thinking that maybe he doesn't get the adulation for beating the "greatest" fighter in history that one would expect.

I stumbled upon this "unflattering" doc from the 80s.

- He was a bully
- Womaniser
- Woman beater
- Spunked all his dough (the equivalent of millions today)
- Was conned out of his dough by parasites
- By 30 was skint and working in a scrap metal yard
- Attempted to kill his daughter
- Aged 38 committed suicide - shot himself in the head then heart

Some story.

I knew all of this by the age of 14*. Way too young... Depressed the fuckin life out of me. What a shit story for a man who beat Sugar Ray.

*I used to collect those 'Boxers' collectables (magazine/ VHS combo). The first generation, when it was distributed by Marshall Cavendish. I think it was no. 6 in the collection.

[smashup]

Nice one @Fenster - gonna watch this when i get a chance!

Turpin beat SRR in Earls Court London didn't he ... then lost the rematch.

Heard he was rather Feral to say the least.

Nice Find

[Master]

To beat the best he must have been the best for that particular occasion. Ray Robinson was tired and jet lagged and won in the return but only after he pulled it out of the bag from the cut.

[smashup]

Some absolute classic non aerodynamic 80s motors on show in the first 15 mins hahaha