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"Fumble For The Fatherland", Boxing's Fascist Fight Night

Muhammad Ali Fan | 23.02.2010 16:57 | Anti-racism | Repression | Birmingham

The sport of legends Muhammad Ali and Amir Khan, is being hijacked this weekend at the world-famous Caesars Nightclub venue at Streatham in South London. This coming Sunday, the 28th February 2010, a team of eight fascist-friendly semi-professional English boxers will supporting the neo-Nazi EDL, entering a boxing ring displaying EDL logo shorts and flags for an official EBC prizefighter contest.



This far right boxing night promoted in conjunction with Mean Machine Promotions, in the nation's capital, is designed to raise the profile of the cowardly racist political organisation whose last rally in England involved storming through a predominantly Asian area of Stoke, smashing up cars, windows and passers-by in what has been described by onlookers as an anti-Muslim pogrom.

Rather than being being a cage-fighting event in a derelect warehouse akin to criminal hoodlums, the EDL's event is being held in one of London's most famous boxing venues, Caesars, advertised as "London's largest and most luxurious nightclub", and is sanctioned by the European Boxing Council (EBC).

Caesars has hosted the likes of Lennox Lewis, Lloyd Honeyghan and Gary Mason, and outside of boxing, has been used to film scenes Footballers Wives (ITV) fight sequences from the movie "Snatch" starring Brad Pitt, chat-show goddess Trisha, Big Brother's Big Mouth (Channel Four), and Most Haunted (Living TV), with their legendary Christmas parties regularly featured on Sky.

Caesars is indeed a celebrity-frequented venue, and not some backstreet dive, all the more shocking when you consider that the BNP have to make do with the less than glorious surroundings of the New Kimberley Hotel for their shenanigans.

On their social networking web pages, self-confessed boxing fan and psychotic fascist thug Liam Pinkham devotes plenty of space to the merits of his "Great White (Supremacist) Hopes" of boxing, aiming to prove to the world that Aryans pack the best punch. Following the EDL's showcase sporting event, Caesars are laying on an "exclusive afterparty" where hardcore neo-Nazis Pinkham and steroidal busom buddy Wigan Mike can chase around siliconised Page Three models all night long, demonstrating the pro-active feminism of the EDL.

Over forty EDL members have already bought tickets. Tickets for the "Fumble For The Fatherland" are being sold on Ebay through the EDL's "merchandise shop" alongside their paramilitary hoodies and assorted nationalist and racist tat at £45 each, as well as other outlets.

 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/English-Defence-Legue-Fight-Night-28th-Feb-Caesars_W0QQitemZ180469153230QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_3?hash=item2a04ccbdce

(Like their "multiracial nationalist" idol Nick Griffin in the BNP, the EDL seem happy to rip off their own members by charging £5 for postage per ticket).

From Bolton to Sheffield, Cardiff to Brixton, boxing gyms all across the country pride themselves in offering sports and fitness training to young people from under priviledged backgrounds. Go in any inner city gym, and you will see black, Asian and white kids training together with mutual respect and admiration. The ethos of equal competition is one sadly lacking in most other sports, and for that reason, boxing is part of the government's sports development strategy to coincide with the forthcoming 2012 London Olympics.

Despite the EDL's recent setbacks, organised racism and religious hatred is steadily increasing year-in, year-out with the spirit of fervent Islamophobia fostered by politicians, state institutions and the scaremongering tabloid media who worryingly have turned their attentions from hooked-handed foreign bogeymen to British Muslims (the "enemy within"), to shore-up public support for the War On Terror and silence critics of an extremely unpopular and bloody Afgan war with casualties on all sides.

It is the misguided belief fostered by the rightwing newspaper industry and black ops foreign office "leaks" (the whole of the Taliban have Brummie accents) that has created the environment for a resurgence of the British far right exploited by violent neo-Nazi groups such as the EDL.

Egotist and publicity whore of the EDL Trevor Kelway sees mileage in turning media attentions from race riots to ringside aggression. Eight shameless racist boxers will be taking to the ring this Sunday in London for what the EDL leadership see as both a moneymaking opportunity and a cynical PR exercise, a chance to appeal to a wider fan base who might not otherwise warm to their hardcore Hitler loving British Freedom Fighters or the EDL's violently destructive racial football hooliganism.

Whilst a handful of potential boxing starlets of tomorrow fritter away hopes of fame and fortune through mutual association with English fascism, sweating tears of endurance as lackeys for an Islamophobic masterplan, spare a thought for Alan Lake and the EDL's other weathly far right backers who will be sipping extravagantly on champage on ice, playing millionairre war games with people's minds while the cancer of organised racism takes a foothold within the grassroots sporting world.

Since the defeat in the rematch of Max Schmeling by Joe Louis (Schmeling himself refusing to join the Nazi party or sack his American Jewish manager, and hiding two Jewish boys in his apartment during the Kristallnacht pogrom), with the rise of Jewish, black and Asian ring fighters, boxing has had an estranged relationship with fascism, and may seem like an unlikely target for the EDL.

Since the New Millenium, the Lonsdale boxing brand became momentarily popular with the European far right in the Netherlands, Belgium, northern France and Germany, especially because a carefully placed outer jacket leaves the letters NSDA showing; an acronym of Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter (National Socialist German Worker), and one letter short of NSDAP, the German acronym for the Nazi Party, however the boxing world has generally embraced non-white people and immigrants (including Muslims) into its gymnasiums, alongside the white working class.

One thing's for sure, the undeniable patriotism and steadfast patriotism of Amir Khan who dedicated his victories after 7/7 to the victims of Islamic terror, will be affronted by the poisonous bile and misdeeds of the EDL, who, despite claims of being "only against religious extremism", regularly create disorder, race hatred and chaos in the city centres of England, Wales and Scotland with straight-armed Hitler salutes, banners calling for the banning of mosques, incessant racist chanting, and behind the scenes, plotting deadly large-scale race riots.

During recent invasions into British cities masked paramilitary followers of this violent anti-Islamic far right gang have physically and verbally attacked innocent (non-extremist) Muslims in the street, vandalised Islamic gravestones, and threatened Muslim taxi drivers with death, (hardly the behaviour of a genuine anti-religious extremist group).

Whatever are one's personal thoughts regarding boxing, with the Olympics approaching, it is important that anti-fascists everywhere show our massed opposition to hate-peddling British fascist bootboys infiltrating the corporate sporting world.

You can register your disapproval of the EDL hijacking boxing by contacting the venue direct and asking them to cancel the Prizefighter event (please be polite and courteous in all correspondance!!! Thanks!):

CONTACT:

Mr Fred Batt (Owner)
Caesars Nightclub,
156-160 Streatham Hill
London
SW2 4RU

Or speak to Club Manager Vickie on 020-8671-3000

Fax: 01306-711660
 http://www.caesars.uk.com/
(no email address, sorry!)

Mean Machine Promotions:

 http://www.meanmachine.biz

NO PASARAN IN SPORT!

Muhammad Ali Fan

Comments

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exploitation of the e.d.l. football hoolligans

23.02.2010 17:33

This most definately cannot be allowed to happen. I just to be a boxer (only amateur) at school, and I don't want to see boxing being politiced.

Amir Khan is the future of boxing, and yet, your average low-IQ master race EDL numbskull would racially abuse him as a "p@ki bastard" if he came across him on an EDL riot, for the colour of his skin. Sad.

Its true amir helped raise money for the victims of 7/7 and yet the edl (despite claiming this isnt the case) hate all muslims not just muslim extremists.

I dont go clubbing but if I did, Id boycott cesars club.

Surely cesars knows the score, how the event is being hijackd by the fuckwitz of the e.d.l.

Hope there can be a boycott of the venue.

There again, it might be a chance to see who is behind the organisation, when the upper middle class fascist funders gather in their poncey bowties.

If only the working class hooligans would know they are being exploited by the professional Islamophobes and hardcore nutzis of the e.d.l.

Dave


Cage Rage

23.02.2010 17:55

"Rather than being being a cage-fighting event in a derelect warehouse akin to criminal hoodlums"

I appreciate everything you're trying to do and this event is a worrying development. However why a 'cage-fighting' event whether in a derelict warehouse or Wembley Arena would be any more appropropriate for an EDL shindig is questionable. If boxing is the sport of David Haye, Naseem Hamed and George Foreman - then 'cage-fighting' or MMA (mixed martial arts) is the sport of the likes Anderson Silva, Cheik Kongo, and the U.Ks own Paul 'Semtex' Daley (check 'em out) - if it's just a matter of comparing black guys that is.

Of course the problem is that the EDL have a very public anti-racist stance. Yeah I know all about the sieg-heiling and when I went to confront them in Manchester I was told 'There ain't no black in the Union Jack' (by two old-timers who were clearly reliving their NF glory days).Nonetheless - their message that they're just against Islamic extremism looks convincing. There's not any reason for a young working-class black man not to associate with the EDL. Are we seriously saying that our movement is any more open to them?

And another thing....haven't we learned that name-calling people Nazis isn't the automatic switch off we had hoped it would be. Hours have been wasted trying to catch the EDL sieg-heiling- with a few unconvincing shots to show for it (I'll grant you that the SDL and WDL seem to be a different kettle of fash)

We've been beaten over the heads with the National Socialists as the sole source of all history's evil for so long that the public has grown numbed to it. Adolf's on the telly more regularly than Ant 'n' Dec. The more that teachers, broadcasters and our leaders drum into us that Nazism is the only evil - the more those disenfranchised by contemporary power structures might consider that there's something in it.

The minds behind the EDL are using sport as a way into a higher profile with the white-working class. Apart from the odd token effort of a five-a-side football tournament (preferably hilariously ironic) when has the anarchist movement ever done the same? Can you even imagine an anarchist boxing tournament?

Unfortunatley what this event will probably provoke is a lot of hand-wringing from the liberal media about the nasty,oikish EDL and their propensity for violence, followed by pleas for the police to protect us. All of which will boost their profile in their core constituencies.

Let's not join in with the Guardian set on this one.







Knucklehead


Wot? Not Lovin' Hitler???

23.02.2010 19:07


A very convincing Hitler saluting photo indeed, taken by a professional Press Association photographer not a snap-and-hope geek like myself:

Snapaholic


Uncle Toms

23.02.2010 19:20


"There's not any reason for a young working-class black man not to associate with the EDL"

Not if you're an Uncle Tom who doesn't mind standing arm by arm next to hardcore skinheaded racist thugs and racist football hooligans who post remarks about murdering black on the internet on EDL forums and message boards.

Thankfully except the famous racist assault in Central London involving black and white EDL supporters with metal sticks, there are relatively few such incidents happening involving black EDLers due to the small number of black and mixed race people in the EDL.

Most EDL neo-nazi thugs hate black people and Eastern Europeans as much as Asian people. Put "EDL" and "nigger" into Google and look at the search results if you don't believe me.

Wigan Mike and Liam Pinkham are as hardcore nazis as you get, so I'm sorry to disagree.

It's time to stop pussyfooting around and start calling neo-nazis, neo-nazis.

tankard


OMG

23.02.2010 19:49

The EDL are not neo-nazis, if you don't understand the difference then join those labour loving UAF.

If we are to seriously mount an attempt to undermine nationalist/loyalist movements like the EDL we need to start acting and speaking clever not close down debate by calling anything that moves "neo-nazi", IT DOES NOT MEAN ANYTHING. The UAF have been "exposing" the BNP by calling them nazis but 1 million people voted for them.

change tactics or we loose everything

Anarchist Antifa


But...

23.02.2010 20:00

Many people in the EDL are hardcore nazis. End of....!!!

Problem is, Indymedia has been trolled so many times by pro-EDL net nerds pretending to be anarchists, watering down the hate of the EDL.

.


Back in the same place

23.02.2010 20:11

Nobody's arguing that the EDL aren't racist or that they don't need confronting.

What Knucklehead is saying seems to be that calling somebody a 'neo-nazi' doesn't disempower them. It certainly doesn't work if it's not demonstrably true - the UAF have been insisting that the BNP are Nazis for years - has it worked as a method of stopping them? Has it fuck.

Yes we've all seen the photo of the odd sieg heil, the photo of them burning the anti- swastika flag etc etc. Posters on here seem to set great store by them as if somehow if we can persuade the public that the EDL are fully signed up neo-nazis like the BPP or the Blood&Honour crowd then their organisation will collapse. It won't.

Even tankard admits that there are some black guys running with the EDL. Fuck them same as their white colleagues. But the first poster seemed to be trying to say that because there were some famous black faces in boxing then the EDL couldn't have anthing to do with the sport.

Near the Knuckle


Hysterical Posters

23.02.2010 20:18

Please can someone stop this hysterical person posting on here, they really have no idea.

It's not about a fight between 'good and evil', it's about stopping fascism and the corrosive effects of divisive nationalisms. I can't believe that someone is really proposing shouting 'Nartzis' at everyone after all that has happened in the last 12 months.

Take a pill. Calm down.

Do anything other than coming on here with all your 'funny' graphics. This is SERIOUS and you have NOTHING to offer at all.....

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To troll-alert troll

23.02.2010 20:40

Its ironic that the poster of this article using the named "Muhammad Ali Fan" -- do you know Muhammad Ali spoke at a KKK rally and was close to KKK leaders? That he promoted racial dvision between black and white people?

Anarchist Antifa


The EDl Are Hardcore Racist Thugs!

23.02.2010 20:43

Its the EDL trolls who really ought to take a chill pill. Trolls from the "we're not Nazi cos we have a handful of Uncle Tom black and mixed race members in our ranks".

You can be black and support old Adolf, if you have a screwloose. Idi Amin admired the late dead fuhrer.

Leave Indymedia, EDL dimwits, and return to Stormfront. Despite denials, it's full of rabid racists like the EDL.

For fuck's sake, the EDL go around making Hitler salutes, chanting in unison "We hate Pakis more than you".

If that's not nazi behaviour, what the fuck is?

Elaine P


Answer me this.............

23.02.2010 20:59


...... If the E.D.L. are not national socialists, why do the idiots allow the Bolton-based British Freedom Fighters (self-avowed nazis) to play such a prominent role in the organisation?

It was the BFF who burnt that anti-nazi flag in Wales.

The EDL have not proscribed Wigan Mike for one simple reason, they secretly support what he is doing.

Puzzled Of Putney


Caesar's E-mail

23.02.2010 23:09

EDL activist Leisha Brooks (from Southend) organises "an evening with" type events with wannabe film-stars and criminal low-lifes like Dave Courtney and Jason Marriner, for audiences who enjoy vicarious pay-for-view "thrills" with violent men - so the Caesars event sounds like her handiwork. As for complaints, this e-mail address is definitely legit -

 info@caesars.uk.com

These addresses MIGHT work, so send your message to " info@caesars.uk.com" first and then put these addresses in the BCC field -

 vickie@caesars.uk.com,  fred@caesars.uk.com

"Anarchist Antifa" (above) sounds like Trevor Kelway trying to be "clever" again if you ask me

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