Love these these great old boxing and wrestling accounts . Are you familiar with George MacDonald Fraser's _Black Ajax_ ? It's one of his wonderful historical novels. In this case it's about Tom Molineaux. Fictional, but carefully constructed so that it's difficult or impossible to say it didn't happen that way much like his Flashman stories.

Speaking of tangents: There used to be a comicbook shop in town here, the fist one where I opened a folder to start regularly collecting. It was called Bigg Comics, and was run by a great fellow named Ben Biggs. FIGHT TEAM!

@EnglishMartialArts

9 ай бұрын

Love it!

Finally, the story of champion Benjamin Caunt fighting a giant bell for ownership of a nickname. The story of the related Liberty Bell is also about boxer fighting a bell, except the man hit hit the bell so hard it broke.

@EnglishMartialArts

9 ай бұрын

Lol, spot on.

Congratulations on the sponsor! The story of Big Ben Caunt is new to me, and I thank you for the enlightenment 🖖

@EnglishMartialArts

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Keep going. Why not?

Great story! :) I hadn't heard it before, so many thanks :)

Keep going! Love watching your vids

@EnglishMartialArts

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Such fun and educational video! But that coffee commercial looks professional!!!

@EnglishMartialArts

9 ай бұрын

Technically it was. Making videos is my day job... 😀

Huh... I've always just assumed the pugilist was named after the bell. I never even considered that it was the other way around.

@EnglishMartialArts

9 ай бұрын

I always assumed it was a coincidence to be fair.

Interesting Video i didn't know the Information before. Would love it if you keep going. Fight Team.

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Coffee. With or without Brandy? You decide. Keep going for the love of Pete. FT!

@EnglishMartialArts

9 ай бұрын

Usually without, my wife frowns upon brandy for breakfast...

@Philo68

9 ай бұрын

@@EnglishMartialArtsWhat else should we put on our Cornflakes? Ooh my liver - when I die it’ll be donated to science…… FICTION!

So its a coffee commercial with a tangent thrown in . . . lol

@EnglishMartialArts

9 ай бұрын

That's the way sponsored videos work. At between 2 and 5 hours to make a video someone has to help out.

@bubbagump2341

9 ай бұрын

@@EnglishMartialArts I know, it just came across as kinda infomercialesque . . .

As I an a dirty coffee drinker, hearing "Heel hook coffee" tinkled my antennae

@EnglishMartialArts

9 ай бұрын

It's good coffee!

@tapioperala3010

9 ай бұрын

@@EnglishMartialArts I'm sure it is! I've been drinking coffee 39 years now, so I would say I'm quite experienced drinker. Mostly I drink small roastery coffees; more expensive but they taste so much better. Too bad no shipping to Finland (but I understand), these made me very interested.

No. I didn't know this. So, if I win a slap fight can I arrogantly call myself the "Big Ben of Slapping"? fight Team! I say upload when you can. If this isn't stressing you out then do it, if it is then there is nothing wrong with taking little breaks or preparing videos. Different people work in different ways. This is your channel; not t.v.

I think Big Ben would win.

@EnglishMartialArts

9 ай бұрын

Obvs!