NEW GAME! Boxing Kangaroo 13/07 Deadline 2:15pm

by paperbag_puncher Thu 5 Jul - 10:20

First topic message reminder :

Anyone ever play sheep? Basically I'll ask a series of "mainly boxing" related questions and the aim is to answer with the most popular answer. So for example if I asked name a heavyweight champion and 7 people said Ali they would get 7 points. If 5 said Louis they would get 5 points and so on. Whoever gets the most points wins. You would PM me your answers. I've seen it played on other forums and it seems to work well and passes some time.

Seems to be a bit of interest so we'll go again.

I have included the odd non boxing question to jazz it up a bit

NOTE THIS IS KANGAROO. In kangaroo answers must be incorrect. Incorrect answers score the same as in sheep, while correct answers score 0. Highest score wins. Again I have recycled some questions as there is a different dynamic to this game again

THIS GAME IS JUST FOR FUN.

Name a boxer who fought and lost to Ricky hatton
Name a current British boxer who holds a World Title
Name and English boxer who was born in London
Name a British boxer who has never been KO'd
Name a British HW who is fighting at Upton Park this weekend
Name a character from the Simpsons whos surname is Simpson
Name a British actor who hasn't won an Oscar
Name an English city
Name a country that uses the Euro
Name a football team that retained its premier league status in the 20011/2012 season

Everyone welcome please PM me your answers in an unnumbered list by 2:15Pm if you want to play. Remember you are looking for the most popular answer

rules:

game 1:

game 2:

game 3:

game 4:

game 5:

game 6:

game 7:

game 8:

game 9:

game 10:

Can you please PM your answers on their own in an unnumbered list. So without the questions or numbers beside them. Thanks it makes the calculating much easier thumbsup

Player	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5	Game 6	Game 7	Game 8	Game 9	Game 10	Total
owen10ozzy	10	-	-	-	1	10	7	-	10	5	43
superflyweight	-	-	10	1	5	-	5	-	7	10	38
two_tone	3	-	-	-	7	-	5	-	10	-	35
Imperial Ghosty	10	-	-	10	1	-	5	5	3	-	34
alanqlm	-	10	7	-	-	10	7	-	-	-	34
TopHat24/7	-	1	-	-	-	7	3	7	-	-	18
Reborn-DeeMcK-Reborn	-	7	5	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	15
Union Cane	1	-	-	-	-	-	7	-	-	7	15
bhb001	-	-	-	-	10	1	1	-	-	1	13
Jdizzle	-	-	-	5	-	5	-	-	-	3	13
bellchees	-	-	-	-	-	1	10	1	-	-	12
Seanusarrilius	-	3	3	-	3	-	-	-	1	-	10
seanmichaels	5	-	-	-	-	3	1	-	-	-	9
6oldenbhoy	-	-	-	7	1	-	-	-	-	-	8
rowley	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7
compelling and rich	3	-	1	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	7
spencerclarke	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	7
mobilemaster8	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	3	-	-	6
Danny	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
Soldier_Of_Fortune	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1

by Rowley Tue 10 Jul - 11:37

Imperial Ghosty wrote:I have to query damaen Kelly, by my reckoning he was never a proper world champion unless I've missed the part where the ibo was taken seriously.

Likewise, I gave serious thought to going with Johnny Nelson but did not think his WBF heavyweight belt would be accepted, and rightly not

by alanqlm Tue 10 Jul - 11:38

Btw thanks PP for the incredible amount of effort this must take on your part... greatly appreciated.

by paperbag_puncher Tue 10 Jul - 11:39

rowley wrote:
Imperial Ghosty wrote:I have to query damaen Kelly, by my reckoning he was never a proper world champion unless I've missed the part where the ibo was taken seriously.

Likewise, I gave serious thought to going with Johnny Nelson but did not think his WBF heavyweight belt would be accepted, and rightly not

See above. You were all in the same boat and could have been sly. I may define the questions more clearly in future.....

I've only gone and forgotten question 11. Every other game has only had 10 questions so got carried away.... Question 11 answers coming up. Ignore the post with the points.

by **Union Cane** Tue 10 Jul - 11:40

paperbag_puncher wrote:Ignore the post with the points.

Watch me lose my single point on Q11.

by TopHat24/7 Tue 10 Jul - 11:48

Suspense is killing me.....quite proud of my answer for Q11!

by paperbag_puncher Tue 10 Jul - 11:58

OK please note that world title questions will be rephrased in future. Anyone who has won any kind of world title I have allowed whether it be NBA WBF or even an Interim title. Apologies for this but I don't have time to argue at the minute. In future I will specify what a world title is for the purpose of this game. Again I apologise.

Question 11: Name a boxing world champion whos surname begins with L

Lennox Lewis - 5
Danny
seanmichaels
mobilemaster8
trottb
alanqlm

Liachovich - 2
bellchees
compelling and rich

Sugar Ray Leonard - 2
TheMackemMawler
bhb001

ACES:

Battling Levinsky - TopHat24/7
Benny Lynch - rowley
Denis Lebedev - quentins_monkey
Donny Lalonde - 6oldenbhoy
Duilio Loi - Imperial Ghosty
Fidel LaBarba - owen10ozzy
Joe Louis - Union Cane

INCORRECTS - 8:

(blank) - JDizzle
Sam Langford - two_tone

by paperbag_puncher Tue 10 Jul - 11:59

Scores after question 11:

Imperial Ghosty - 23
owen10ozzy - 23
rowley - 25
seanmichaels - 29
compelling and rich - 31
Union Cane - 32
TopHat24/7 - 34
bhb001 - 37
JDizzle - 38
quentins_monkey - 38
alanqlm - 38
two_tone - 38
6oldenbhoy - 39
TheMackemMawler - 39
Danny - 39
bellchees - 42
mobilemaster8 - 49
trottb - 52

by quentins_monkey Tue 10 Jul - 12:00

Fidel LaBarba? Pull the other one...

by paperbag_puncher Tue 10 Jul - 12:01

Points are as follows.

Imperial Ghosty -10
owen10ozzy -10
rowley - 7
seanmichaels -5
compelling and rich -3
Union Cane - 1

Again apologies for the confusion. Its a work in progress....

by **Union Cane** Tue 10 Jul - 12:02

Kept my point at least.

Owen has gone terribly quiet....

by paperbag_puncher Tue 10 Jul - 12:02

quentins_monkey wrote:Fidel LaBarba? Pull the other one...

Read my explanation. I allowed Lebedev for you. I'll will be more specific in future.

by mobilemaster8 Tue 10 Jul - 12:03

wow i did aweful.

I generally thought Matthew Hatton had never been stopped and i also though Pluto was the smallest planet in our solar system!

Damn it!

Good game gents and thanks PP for some hard questions!

Roll on the next game

by Imperial Ghosty Tue 10 Jul - 12:05

Wasn't Langford the coloured WORLD champion at some point or duration champion, one or the other?

by TopHat24/7 Tue 10 Jul - 12:09

paperbag_puncher wrote:
quentins_monkey wrote:Fidel LaBarba? Pull the other one...

Read my explanation. I allowed Lebedev for you. I'll will be more specific in future.

I don't think that's his issue PP. Owen's answers stink as much as Blunketts. Seriously, who the feck is Fidel LaBarba??

by paperbag_puncher Tue 10 Jul - 12:09

Imperial Ghosty wrote:Wasn't Langford the coloured WORLD champion at some point or duration champion, one or the other?

Lads Ye're killing me. He was World Coloured HW champ but even I cant accept that.

by Imperial Ghosty Tue 10 Jul - 12:11

It's as legitimate as the ibo especially in an era when the colour line was drawn.

by TopHat24/7 Tue 10 Jul - 12:11

mobilemaster8 wrote:wow i did aweful.

I generally thought Matthew Hatton had never been stopped and i also though Pluto was the smallest planet in our solar system!

Pluto was declassified a few years back by NASA due to something about its orbit I think (from memory it's elliptical, not circular round the sun) and now it's a 'Dwarf Planet' or something like that.

by Imperial Ghosty Tue 10 Jul - 12:12

Labarba is one of the greatest flyweight world champions who's ever lived.

by TopHat24/7 Tue 10 Jul - 12:13

Sheep may implode off the back of this game.....lol

Well done tho PP.

by **Union Cane** Tue 10 Jul - 12:14

Imperial Ghosty wrote:Labarba is one of the greatest flyweight world champions who's ever lived.

Perhaps owen could tell us a little bit about him?

by Imperial Ghosty Tue 10 Jul - 12:17

Point being I know a darn sight more about Labarba than I do Loi for instance but the wells answer is very very obscure.

by 6oldenbhoy Tue 10 Jul - 12:18

In fairness, I was going to use LaBarba in the Olympic question, but tried to stay away from gold medallists. But some of those answers are a bit fishy.

by Reborn-DeeMcK-Reborn Tue 10 Jul - 12:19

Whens the next game going up!?

by paperbag_puncher Tue 10 Jul - 12:22

Imperial Ghosty wrote:It's as legitimate as the ibo especially in an era when the colour line was drawn.

Fair enough I've amended it. two_tone is now joint 4th and gets 3 points.

by paperbag_puncher Tue 10 Jul - 12:25

With regards owen10ozzy. A lot of people are suspicious of his answers. I cant prove anything either way so all i can do is ask him did he use the internet? Maybe he didn't read the rules and used the internet by accident.

If he did use the internet and lets me know i'll remove his points. If he insists he didn't use the internet there's not a lot I can do. Now I know why I hate running Reverse Sheep (even though its a better game)

by two_tone Tue 10 Jul - 12:26

paperbag_puncher wrote:
Imperial Ghosty wrote:It's as legitimate as the ibo especially in an era when the colour line was drawn.

Fair enough I've amended it. two_tone is now joint 4th and gets 3 points.

Thanks to you both thumbsup

by compelling and rich Tue 10 Jul - 12:33

think it will show eventually if owen ozzy has been cheating, either he has some daft knowledge this round which you would expect that it that wont continue and he wont be winning every round, thats simply not plausable or either next round his answers all all really obvious ones which would also suggest that a total change he was cheating this round

by **Union Cane** Tue 10 Jul - 12:45

How about a normal game with the same questions?

by Rowley Tue 10 Jul - 12:46

On the world title issue I would not include coloured world titles from back in the day but by the same token would reserve the modern era to the big four, at some point all manner of fighters have had claims to world titles, gets silly if we include anyone who can claim a world title no matter how spurious

by paperbag_puncher Tue 10 Jul - 12:53

New questions are up for NORMAL SHEEP. You are looking for the most popular answer and internet use is allowed. You have until 2:15pm

Also there are no wrong answers and hence no negative marking

by paperbag_puncher Tue 10 Jul - 12:54

rowley wrote:On the world title issue I would not include coloured world titles from back in the day but by the same token would reserve the modern era to the big four, at some point all manner of fighters have had claims to world titles, gets silly if we include anyone who can claim a world title no matter how spurious

All true. I made the mistake of not specifying and hold my hands up. I meant the big 4 when I asked the question but as I didn't specify that I allowed everything. Won't happen again.

by **seanmichaels** Tue 10 Jul - 13:03

Don't know much about this burley chap. Did he play for Celtic?

by paperbag_puncher Tue 10 Jul - 13:06

seanmichaels wrote:Don't know much about this burley chap. Did he play for Celtic?

Ban coming your way from Rowley Sean......

I realise you're joking but for anyone who cant answer the questions of the top of your head internet is allowed for normal sheep.

by Imperial Ghosty Tue 10 Jul - 13:12

I expect rowley to leave the question about whom beat him blank as he fails to acknowledge burley could lose.

by Rowley Tue 10 Jul - 13:13

Imperial Ghosty wrote:I expect rowley to leave the question about whom beat him blank as he fails to acknowledge burley could lose.

Tempted but am still smarting from losing on Hollyoaks last time, the competitive spirit has kicked in

by Imperial Ghosty Tue 10 Jul - 13:16

I'm still annoyed at not getting the outright win.

by two_tone Tue 10 Jul - 13:19

rowley wrote:On the world title issue I would not include coloured world titles from back in the day but by the same token would reserve the modern era to the big four, at some point all manner of fighters have had claims to world titles, gets silly if we include anyone who can claim a world title no matter how spurious

by **owen10ozzy** Tue 10 Jul - 13:25

Hiya Chaps,

Just logged in as I have been out doing work all morning. I shall clarify some answers since I guessed some of you would get a little craggy.

Firstly

Labarba - Really? That is hardly an obscure answer..the guy was an olympic gold medallist and as Ghosty pointed out one of the greatest Flyweights ever...most of you lads should know that one (although I know the lower weights aren't perhaps looked upon as much as some others).

Next onto Amber Simpson - Las Vegas Wife of Homer Simpson...one of the funniest Simpsons episodes, in my book and as Bellchees stated it was actually on the box last night lol...you will quickly learn TV is a strong suit of mine due to the fact im sat in front of it quite alot.

Pobol y Cwm - Im Welsh...its a very very famous Welsh Soap...the longest running programme in the country..which they tried to get the English into liking by shoving on Channel 4 once with subtitles...safe to say it failed miserably and quickly returned to its usual S4C slot!

Robert Wells - Purely only know due to the fact I work in journalism and we had an article on him recently because he was denied the chance to help out at London 2012 and failed to get any tickets. Something he thought was wrong as an ex olympian. I also believe he made a recovery from Depression & alcoholism after failing in the pro ranks and then being struck by a bus.

Anyhow hopefully that answers any doubts people may have had.

Question to Paperbag - When was Steve Collins stopped?...Im pretty sure that he wasn't...man was hard as nails.

by **seanmichaels** Tue 10 Jul - 13:26

paperbag_puncher wrote:
seanmichaels wrote:Don't know much about this burley chap. Did he play for Celtic?

Ban coming your way from Rowley Sean......

I realise you're joking but for anyone who cant answer the questions of the top of your head internet is allowed for normal sheep.

I genuinely knew very little other than he was an old boxer.

by paperbag_puncher Tue 10 Jul - 13:28

owen10ozzy wrote:
Question to Paperbag - When was Steve Collins stopped?...Im pretty sure that he wasn't...man was hard as nails.[/i]

I don't think he'd take too kindly to you calling him British.

by **Seanusarrilius** Tue 10 Jul - 13:30

Here I come!!!

by Imperial Ghosty Tue 10 Jul - 13:30

Collins was definitely not British, about as Irish as you could get.

by **seanmichaels** Tue 10 Jul - 13:35

owen10ozzy wrote:Hiya Chaps,

Just logged in as I have been out doing work all morning. I shall clarify some answers since I guessed some of you would get a little craggy.

Firstly

Labarba - Really? That is hardly an obscure answer..the guy was an olympic gold medallist and as Ghosty pointed out one of the greatest Flyweights ever...most of you lads should know that one (although I know the lower weights aren't perhaps looked upon as much as some others).

Next onto Amber Simpson - Las Vegas Wife of Homer Simpson...one of the funniest Simpsons episodes, in my book and as Bellchees stated it was actually on the box last night lol...you will quickly learn TV is a strong suit of mine due to the fact im sat in front of it quite alot.

Pobol y Cwm - Im Welsh...its a very very famous Welsh Soap...the longest running programme in the country..which they tried to get the English into liking by shoving on Channel 4 once with subtitles...safe to say it failed miserably and quickly returned to its usual S4C slot!

Robert Wells - Purely only know due to the fact I work in journalism and we had an article on him recently because he was denied the chance to help out at London 2012 and failed to get any tickets. Something he thought was wrong as an ex olympian. I also believe he made a recovery from Depression & alcoholism after failing in the pro ranks and then being struck by a bus.

Anyhow hopefully that answers any doubts people may have had.

Question to Paperbag - When was Steve Collins stopped?...Im pretty sure that he wasn't...man was hard as nails.

One does protest too much.

by alanqlm Tue 10 Jul - 13:38

To be fair to Ozzy, even I have heard of Pobol y Cwm and Im from Northern Ireland, its all that ever seems to be on that stupid s4c channel when I flick past it.

by paperbag_puncher Tue 10 Jul - 13:38

PM for Tophat

by **seanmichaels** Tue 10 Jul - 13:43

paperbag_puncher wrote:PM for Tophat

FFS. It's not hard!

by bhb001 Tue 10 Jul - 13:44

Until there are hard facts to the contrary, I will believe that Ozzy answered all questions without access to the internet. Some people may also point out the beliefs I have on the Easter Bunny, but that is irrelevant to my support!

by **owen10ozzy** Tue 10 Jul - 13:45

Haha Cheers alanqlm ... It really is all they watch. It is Eastenders, Hollyoaks, Coronation Street & Emmerdale all rolled into one gigantic never ending show.

Sean - No protesting just giving my reason for the answers which im pretty sure a few people wanted clearing up!! Get back to finding out about Burley before the deadline hits

bhb - Is there a hint of sarcasm their!? Im not quite sure why my answers are actually questioned that much.

One was from an episode which happened to be on last night...the other is a well known Welsh soap, being from Wales one would hope I knew it. The less said about Labarba the better because as a boxing board I would be shocked if at least 40% of the people here I haven't heard of him

by bhb001 Tue 10 Jul - 13:53

Ozzy, I believe you 100%. Full support mate!!

by **Seanusarrilius** Tue 10 Jul - 13:55

I already feel some Blunketts coming on!

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