Ben Doughty went missing after an attempted ticket scam. Since then, the self-described 'Boxing Doyen', has gone on a mission to repair his tattered reputation in the only place that counts: Facebook. Despite Dougty's continued promotion of his achievements - sobriety, a fabricated amateur boxing record, speed pad training in illogical places, taking the great Ashante Hendrickson into deep waters, and so on - he has become a long-standing figure of ridicule on CheckHookBoxing. Eagle-eyed posters spotted his egg-stained blazer, his habit of sleeping on other people's sofas, the lack of desire to hold down a stable job, and ran with it.
People from as far as LA have shared their stories about Doughty, most of which have been of the ridiculing variety. This, combined with Photoshop's, ramblings of a thesaurus-assisted Doyen, a heated rivalry with Jeff Thomas, and an appearance by the man himself, has caused this thread to be one of the most popular in CHB's history.
Read on and enjoy the ride.
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First off, it always amazes me how this guy seems to have a loyal following. I just don't get it. It's one of life's big mysteries.
Well the man has now done a disappearing act after taking 10s of thousands of pounds for non existent Brook-GGG tickets. Yet his Facebook is still full of his followers telling people to calm down and hoping he's OK :lol:
Mind boggling.
Please feel free to post your favourite Doughy interviews and funny posts. A personal favourite of mine was when he was pretending to be a real reporter to Eubank Sr and Eubank just goes "who are you" to which Doughty replies "I have a big page on facebook" :rofl
Heard about this about a week ago on Facebook. I've never followed him at all, but always thought Doughty was just a bit weird whenever I came across his posts.
Apparently he's taken money off actual professional boxers as well? Fancy trying to con a group of people off who are all trained to fight.
I only found out about this when Dave Allen mentioned it on Twitter the other day. But it seems like all the talk of it is only taking place on Facebook (I don't have an account); this is the only Tweet I could find with info:
Doughty is scum and I remember when he was training the biggest drug cheat in British boxing post ban Larry Olubamiwo and calling him "the most honest man in boxing"
He's been thrown out of a few London gyms he's an absolute lowlife nuisance
always seemed like an unusual dude with a few delusions of grandeur.
Looks like he's messed around some serious people and then seems to have gone to ground completely, money is money, but i i hope he's ok at least...
Yep watching that video i was cringing at the convo.
Sadly i suppose people have met him and felt he was genuine. The love he gets on facebook is unreal. I do wonder how many of those 5k followers have actually met him before.
There is a video where he is talking about being turfed out of his home by his wife and sleeping in the gym.
Used to follow his page for a few years and was pretty vocal on it at one point but un-friended him for a couple of reasons.
Firstly his followers started to annoy me, making him out be a the second coming at one point.
Secondly, it became very much a case of 'this is my opinion, you're wrong if you think otherwise'. I suppose we can all be like that but it got a bit much.
Honestly these stories don't really surprise me too much which is a shame. Not followed him for a year or so so can't really comment but it's a shame for the poor sods he has screwed out of thousands of pounds.
Hamilton can overexergerate things so wouldn't be shocked.
In saying that though it sounds like he's got over 50k out of this so people obviously did trust him.
I wouldn't be shocked if some wives did go mental when their husband goes "hunny, you know that Ben guy on my FB?. Well i gave him 2 grand for tickets to Golovkin Vs Brook and he never sent them. Don't worry though i'm sure he's working on something. His reputation is on the line. In the meantime i've pawned our wedding rings"..
ha ha ha....as an outsider its funny as fuck, obviously not for the guys who lost money. Matt Hamilton is doing his darndest to distance himself from Doughty, which i suppose is fair enough as hes nothing to do with it. Im hearing anything between 40k and 60k, thats serious shit. I understand ones have contacted the cops over it
basically sold a lot of tickets for fights and meet n greets (michael spinks) to a lot of people and apparently just fucked off with the money. Not 100% on this but i heard spinks came over to the UK for it too, maybe he'd other events, i hope for his sake he has
Fair play. Least Golovkin vs Brook was an actual fight.
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