Date Set For Bernard Dunne-Paul Simon Fight In Croke Park
Posted on | June 22, 2009
Bernard Dunne has announced the date for his long awaited bout with Paul Simon this summer, the two will square off in Croke Park on the 30th of August.
The announcement was made this afternoon at a press conference in Dublin’s Skylon Hotel in Drumcondra. And with both Dunne and Simon present, it was a very tense affair.
“I’ve been waiting for this fight for a long time, there’s a few things we need to sort out in the ring on August 30th,” remarked Dunne, in an unashamedly confrontational manner.
Simon was also talking tough: “I don’t have much time for this shit house country, I hate you Irish bugs, so I’ll be back here next August to beat your champ, take his belt and be on the next flight home.”
The two have been trying to organise a head-to-head for several years now, however with contractual obligations with other fighters, the date has remained in limbo, that is until today.
The bad blood between the pair has dated back to Dunne’s 2005 fight with Yuri Voronin in the National Stadium. Simon was ringside for that fight, and Dunne claims that as he was celebrating his victory Simon threw his ‘wank sock’ at him shouting: “I pissed on your Ma’s dick.”
Simon denied the claims: “I’m a fucking Jew, it’s against my deeply held religious beliefs to own a wank sock”. Instead he alleged Dunne started the feud when he refused to introduce Simon to his childhood hero Bertie Ahern.
Whatever the cause of the disagreement, one thing is for sure, the fight is sure to be a box office hit, with Paul Simon’s management team originally demanding that the fight take place in Caeser’s Palace in Las Vegas.
However the Dunne crew pulled off a major coup by securing Croke Park as the venue for the fight. Already dubbed “the Corker in Croker” by the press – Sky, who won the exclusive television rights to the fight, are going with “The Jew vs. The Mick”.
Simon is said to be training since last month for the fight, where as Dunne has announced that he will commence training next week. Paddy Power have given Simon 5000/1 to win the fight as he’s 67 years old.
