Wow. It's been like 12 years...

Hi everyone,
I saw a post on Facebook posted by fightbeat.com and had to come back and visit!

I haven't been here since I stopped covering Montreal boxing for the site back when Jean Pascal was starting his career and YouTube was taking off!

Browsing the forums I saw some familiar names still here! Wow.

Shout out to Cupey and Jake (if you are still here) for letting me be a journalist for a brief but happy time in my life.

Long live fightbeat.com. :)

 

Who are you

 

Cheers! I don't think we ever spoke much back then but I do recognize the name and it's great to hear from a FB alumni

 

Congrats, welcome back to a shell of the Fightbeat you knew from 12 years ago. We no longer take anything seriously around here (except Doub and JOM).

Cupey and Jake are long gone from posting.

I often wonder WTF happened to Donnybrook? That guy just vanished into thin air like 10-12 years ago. He was quality.

 

Cupey died of AIDS years ago

Jake completed hormone treatment and is now a real Puerto Rican

 

Lol. I'm willing to bet that Jake still reads the forum from time to time.

Cupey? Who knows and who gives a shit.

 

How Cupey was ever able to reach one arm with the other arm to use those dirty needles I will never know.

 

We don't take them seriously.

 

He tried to sell me paid access to the video section back in 2004.

I invented youtube to get around him.

 

I never got my DVD of the Toney/McCallum bouts

 

Can't believe you've never seen these fights, live or on replay. Guess it's true.

 

The only guy I ever bought fights from on this forum was (ironically enough) Kid Dynamite.

To his credit, he got them over to me in timely fashion and it was good quality.

 

I traded with him as well... straight up guy in that regard ... no issues whatsoever... he even threw Tyson/Spinks on the end of one of the tapes as a joke

 

Buying fights? Lol have you heard of the internet???

 

the interwhat now?

 

It's like a regular net... but inter

 

We’re talking like 17 years ago

 

Welcome Back Me-Dick Jones...




REED

 

This was like 2003 - before YouTube.

 

Kids today just don't know. It's so easy today. Instant Ready-Mix access to fights.

No waiting around to watch it on VHS on the TELLY VIZZY OWN!!!

 

And if you wanted to see them live you had to walk 100 miles to the arena uphill in the snow.

 

Tape Trades were THE Absolute Shit Back in the Early Boxing Messageboard Days...

REED Quickly Built Up His Catalogue of Fights and Became the Boxing Bootleg King of Dallas/Ft. Worth for a Minute or 3...Huuuuuge Part of REED Establishing his Name in Local Boxing Circles...

YouTube Killed It, But Fond Memories Nonetheless...





REED

 

The guy who had the biggest collection of fights on the net was Brian Cooper - who sadly died like 5 years ago. He was my main connect, and probably a lot of other's connect as well. He had an absolutely astounding catalog of fights, and he was a cool guy. RIP to him.

 

I used to pay big bucks for top quality VHS. Don't regret it even though the tapes are now useless. I got a lot of use out of them.

 

They're not useless if you buy a converter.

 

REED's Main Connect was Kurt Noltimier...He Used to Post Ads in Boxing Magazines...




REED

 

Spent hundreds from the 90s until YouTube

 

Never heard of him, but hard to imagine he had as many fights as Cooper.

That guy had EVERYTHING from everyone.

 

Well all but the rarest fights probably are at this point. It's not just youtube but torrents.