#GoBigDave

Around the end of April 2014 I was delighted to start receiving messages with "selfie" pictures with the phrase #GoBigDave being held up on a sign in them.

 

 

This was a fantastic boost to my morale at a time when the training and dieting were beginning to feel never-ending.

 

 

As more started coming in it seemed only right to embrace the #GoBigDave selfie wholeheartedly and ask anyone who wanted to show their support for Big Dave's Little Stroll to take a #GoBigDave selfie and put a couple of quid into the fundraising pot.

 

 

This was the result...

A MASSIVE THANK YOU TO

- Ricky Hatton -

Former WBA (Super), IBF, IBO and The Ring Light Welterweight Champion, and WBA Welterweight Champion

Together with Mike Jackson, Ryan Burnett and Anthony Upton

- Tyson Fury -
Former English, Irish, Commonwealth and Inter-Continental Heavyweight Champion

- Trevor Neal and Simon Hickson -
Legendary Comedy Double Act

 

- Wayne Elcock -

Former English, British & W.B.U. World Middleweight Boxing Champion

- Niamh Redmond -
Aged 17 months & full time Monkey Face

- Kevin Mitchell -
Former British and Commonwealth Super-Featherweight & Current Intercontinental Lightweight Boxing Champion

- Billy Schwer -
Former British, European, Commonwealth Lightweight & IBO World Light-Welterweight Champion

- The Repeat Offenders -
(aka Andrew, Seb, Graham & Steve)

- Micky Allen & 12 Quays Gym -
Boxing Trainer and his fighters in Wallasey

- Topsy Ojo -
Professional Rugby Union Player for London Irish & England

- Mike Wozniak -
Writer, Actor, Voice Artist & Stand Up Comedian

- Ryan Rhodes & Curtis Woodhouse -
Ryan is the former WBO Intercontinental Middleweight & Light Middleweight, British, European & WBC International Light Middleweight Boxing Champion - and - Curtis is a former Professional Footballer, British Light Welterweight Boxing Champion and current Manager of Goole F.C.

- Craig Carter -
Firefighter based in Luton, Bedfordshire

- Gail Nicholls Fitness Boot Camp -
Stoke-on-Trent

- Nathan Ward, Kenny Stockbrook & Stockbrook Colts FC -
Derby

- Wendy Wasson -
Comedienne & Actress

- Venus Starr -
British Pin-Up, Burlesque Artiste & the star of
Leicester's Red Light Burlesque

- David Schneider -
Actor, Writer & Comedian

- Cece Sinclair -
Burlesque Performer from Manchester

- Steve Spence -
British Masters Light Middleweight Champion

- Barry Ferns -
Writer, Stand Up Comedian & the force behind
Angel Comedy

- Tori "Sho Nuff" Nelson -
WIBA Welterweight, WIBA Middleweight & WBC Middleweight World Champion

- Dave Fulton -
Stand Up Comedian

- Peter Fury -
Elite Level Boxing Trainer & Head of Team Fury

- Jim Tavare -
Writer, Actor, Comedian & Musician

- Ben Doughty -
Professional Boxing Coach & Boxing Journalist

- Jo Bains & his daughter Ashika -
London based Stand Up Comedian

- Ben Robinson -
Professional Light Middleweight Boxer from Welwyn Garden City

- Jojo Georgiou -
Stand Up Comedian

 

- Tony Cesay's Boxers from Omnibus ABC -
London

- Tony Cesay's kids -
the makers of a fantastic #GoBigDave sign

- Chris "Twinny" Jenkinson -
Professional Light Middleweight Boxer from Bolton

- Ohara Davies -
Professional Lightweight Boxer from Hackney

- Adam Blaize -
Manchester based Writer & Stand Up Comedian

- Lee Selby -
WBC International, British & Commonwealth Featherweight Boxing Champion

- Brainne & Siobhan Edge -
Brainne is a lectrurer, actor & the mastermind behind Comedysportz UK

- Josh "The Leeds Warrior" Warrington -
English, British & Commonwealth Featherweight Boxing Champion

- Brian Higgins -
Stand Up Comedian

- Ben "Duracell" Jones -
IBO International Lightweight & WBO European Super-Featherweight Boxing Champion

- Lindsay Sharman -
(aka Madame Magenta & The Poet)
Award winning Comedienne & Actress

- Donnchadh Dubh & the Bad Ass Café -
Stand Up Comedian & Bad Ass Compere

- Richard Coughlin -
Stand Up Comedian

- Jimmy "Justice" Millar -
Welterweight MMA Fighter

- Steven "Stevie G" Gallante -
Former Royal Green Jacket & Royal Marine and currently
Boxing Coach at TRAD KO Gym, Canning Town

- Aarron "The Marksman" Morgan -
Professional Light Middleweight Boxer

- Caleb Truax -
USBA Middleweight Boxing Champion

- Craig Cunningham -
Professional Middleweight Boxer from Birmingham

- Duncan Oakley -
Stand Up Comedian & Musician

- Lulu -
Beloved pet of Caroline Gold
Playwright, Comedy Writer, Stand Up & Journalist

- Charlie Edwards & Aston Brown -
Flyweight & Middleweight Boxers in Team GB's Podium Squad

- Dotty Winters -
Stand Up Comedian

- Lee Connelly -
Professional Lightweight Boxer from Sheffield

- Ben Norris -
Stand Up Comedian

- Helen J Hunter -
MMA Fighter at Phuket Top Team, Thailand

- Jojo Sutherland -
Comedian, Actor & Broadcaster

- Louise Martin -
Ring Girl from Nottingham

- Mauricio "El Maestro" Herrera -
Interim WBA Light Welterweight Champion

- Mimi Amore -
Liverpool's Award Winning Burlesque Dancer

- Paddy Fitzpatrick -
Elite Professional Boxing Trainer

- Michael "Mustard Mike" Peart -
Professional Light-Middleweight Boxer

- Pippa Evans -
Comedienne & Stand Up

- Sindy Amador -
IFBA Light Flyweight Boxing Champion

- Liam Shinkwin -
Former Southern Area Lightweight Boxing Champion

- The Girls from Bally's Boxing Fitness Class -
Bally's Boxing Gym, Portsmouth

- Aji "The General" Sharif -
Professional Cruiserweight Boxer
from Reading

- Marney Dighton -
Plymouth based Stand Up Comedian

- Laura McBride -
Model & Ring Girl

-Alec Wilkey -
Legendary Boxing Coach

- Kate McCabe -
Writer, Stand Up Comedian & Host of Manchester's Sidekick Comedy Night

- Terry Carruthers -
Former Midlands Light Middleweight & British Masters Middleweight Boxing Champion

- Aurora Winterborn -
Burlesque Performer of the Candid Cabaret & the Kamikaze Girls

- Mervyn Turner -
Boxing Coach, Team Fury Member & Head of
Shamrock Boxing Promotions

- Travis Dickinson -
English Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion

- Ze French Chick -
Comedy Sketch Artist & Stand Up Comedian

- Paul Butlin -
Midlands Area Heavyweight Boxing Champion

- Danny "Boy" Hughes "
Sunderland based Professional Heavyweight Boxer

- Jonson McClumpha -
Sunderland based Professional Middleweight Boxer

- Isaac MacLeod -
5 x English, 3 x British & European Amateur Boxing Champion & World Silver Medallist

- Glenn Foot -
Professional Welterweight Boxer & Prizefighter Champion

- Scottie Hamilton -
Former Soldier and Current Boxing Coach
from Liverpool

- Nox Todd (aged 4) -
Superhero and Nephew Extraordinaire
from Dunstable

- Danny Lewis Price -
Super Middleweight Boxer and Founder of the BoxAid UK Foundation

- Alicia Taylor -
Event Coordinator from San Antonio, Texas

- Miles Shinkwin -
Professional Light Heavyweight Boxer
from Bushey

- Chris "Gilkesy" Gilkes -
Fighter from Wolverhampton

- Joe Vaughan -
Professional Light Middleweight Boxer
from Canning Town

- Stevie "The Wallasey Express" Williams -
Former English & British Masters Light Welterweight Boxing Champion

- Alfie Warren -
Boxing Promoter - Box Office Promotions

- Chris Hobbs -
Professional Light Heavyweight Boxer and Former Soldier




- Rich Wilson -
Stand Up Comedian and Compere

- Marcello Renda -
Former British Masters Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion & Current International Masters Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion

- Gary Neale, Floyd Moore, Mike Ballingall Jr, Chris Hobbs & Jim Weeks -
The Up and Coming Young Boxers at Bally's Gym, Portsmouth

- Alicia Marie Napoleon -
Amateur Boxing NYABC Champion, NY and National Golden Gloves

- Aaron "Gorilla" Green -
Professional Heavyweight Boxer from Minneapolis

- Tara Flynn -
Actress, Writer, Improviser, Columnist & Vocal Artiste

- Ray Davis & Raja the Cat -
Writer & Stand Up Comedian

- Phil Buckley -
Stand Up Comedian, Writer, Actor & Radio DJ

- Matt Reed -
Sunderland based Stand Up Comedian & Compere




- Johnny Coyle -
Unbeaten Professional Welterweight
Boxer & Prizefighter Champion

 

- Isaac "The Westgate Warrior" Lowe -
Professional Super Featherweight Boxer

- Ria Lina -
Stand Up Comedienne

- Danny "Big Mac" Mcintosh -
Former English & European Heavyweight Champion

- Mike Belgrave -
Stand Up Comedian, Animator, Director & Graphic Novelist

- "Fast" Eddie Chambers -
Professional Heavyweight Boxer

- Paul "Maniac" Morris -
Professional Cruiserweight Boxer from Preston

- Ben Lawes & his son Alex -
Stand Up Comedian & Compere

- Rosie McGowan -
Fighter, Model, Actress & the force behind Emzfit

- Dave "The White Rhino" Allen -
Professional Heavyweight Champion

- Leon "Lasha" Findlay -
Professional Light Middleweight Boxer from Ammanford

- Jo Coffey -
Stand Up Comedienne

- Jeff Thomas -
Professional Boxer in Several Weight Classes

- Daniel Kielty -
Stand Up Comedian & Amateur Boxer

- Perry Holland -
London ABA Elite Champion

- John Steel -
Boxer, Kickboxer, Bodybuilder & Owner of Steel Gym, Croydon

- Nathan Dale & his children Riley & Sydney-Rose -
British Masters Welterweight & International Masters Bronze Light Welterweight  Boxing Champion

- Darius "the Dariuster" Davies -
Stand Up Comedian

- Matty "Assassin" Askin -
English Cruiserweight Boxing Champion

- Howard Foster -
Elite Level Boxing Referee

- Gary "Highlander" Cornish -
International Masters Heavyweight Champion

- Eddy Brimson -
Actor, Writer & Stand Up Comedian

- Andy Gatenby -
Professional Bantamweight Boxer from Portsmouth

- Steve Rimmer -
Former Army, Current Bomb Disposal Engineer
& Explosive Stand Up Comedian

- Dusty Limits (aka Dorian Black) -
Singer, Writer, Actor, Comedian & Director

- Hughie Fury -
Professional Heavyweight Boxer with Team Fury

- Zara Louise Preston -
Brighton based Stand Up Comedian

- Sandy "Spitfire" Thomas -
Chicago based Flyweight MMA Fighter

- Mike Gunn -
Stand Up Comedian

- Em Brulée -
Jazz, Blues & Swing Vocalist, Burlesque & Cabaret Compere
 

- Rob Coleman -
Stand Up Comedian

- Gwilum Argos -
Musical Comedian

- Ruby Moon Voodoo -
Manchester's Model & Burlesque Performer
with troupe Switchblade Sirens

- Simon Bligh -
Liverpudlian Comic, Compere, Actor & Martial Artist

- Jessica Adele -
Professional Model & Ring Girl

- Carl Hutchinson -
Award winning Stand Up Comedian

- Bobby Nitro (aka Andrew Hutchinson) -
Stand Up Comedian

- Amber & John Lambert -
Aged 4 years old & 17 months in Australia

- Jose Lopes & Don Charles -
Professional Cruiserweight Boxer & Top Professional Boxing Trainer

- Jay Rechsteiner & T-Bone -
Artist & Comedian

- Dana Alexander -
Stand Up Comedienne

- Kader Gharbi -
French Professional Light Heavyweight Boxer

- Edward Aczel -
Stand Up Comedian

- Mark Everton & Jon Eley -
Programme Manager at Grass Roots

- Iszi Lawrence -
Stand Up Comedian, Illustrator, Historian & Skeptic

- Lou Safire -
Vaudevillian & Burlesque Performer

- Rick Keisewetter -
Asian-American London based Stand Up Comedian

- Arash Usmanee -
Afghan-Canadian Professional Super-Featherweight Boxer

- Daphna "Miss D" Baram -
Stand Up Comedienne

- Michael Ovenden -

- Brains McLoud (aka Gavin Bain) -
Hip Hop Legend & Stand Up Comedian

- Jake Pickford -
Stand Up Comedian & Compere

- Michael Baker -
Vermont based Professional Super-Heavyweight MMA Fighter

- Denton Vassell -
Former Commonwealth Welterweight Boxing Champion

- Tom "Not So" Little -
Hatfield based Professional Heavyweight Boxer

- Annie Longden & Chell Bells -
Diamond Ring Girls

- Brandon "L-Jack" Brewer -
Canadian Light-Middleweight Boxing Champion

- Roy Skeldon -
Light Heavyweight Boxing Legend & Owner of
Black Country Boxing

- Peter Christie & Boxers at Prospects Boxing Academy -
Birmingham

- Todd Roberts -
Professional Welterweight Boxer of Prospects Boxing Academy, Birmingham

- Peter Christie & the Staff at Handsworth Leisure Centre -

- George "Hit Hard" Hillyard -
Waltham Abbey based Professional Middleweight Boxer

- Catherine "Fuego" Lebron -
New Jersey based Boxer & Martial Artist

- Kirk Goodings -
Sunderland based English Lightweight Boxing Champion

- Brian Turner -
Fight Science Gym, Aldershot

- Patrick Chapman -
Professional Model for Hollister & Abercrombie & Fitch

- Crossfit 1664 -

- British Powerlifting Organisation -

- Bradley Skeete -
English & WBA Inter-Continental Welterweight Boxing Champion

- Darren Askew -
Queensland, Australia based Cumbrian Professional Welterweight Boxer

- Joseph Fury -
Team Fury Member (Boxing)

- Sam Rowe -
Founder of The Academy of Hard Knocks, Guildford

- Sam Hadfield -
Boxing Coach & Support Worker at
Caris Boxing Club for the Homeless

- Mitchell Balker -
West Ham based Dutch Professional Cruiseweight Boxer

- "Hammerin" Hank Lundy -
Former NABF & NABO Lightweight Champion & Light-Welterweight Boxer

- Eren Arif -
Rotherhithe based Professional Light Welterweight Boxer

- Billy "Hitman" Corito -
Maltese Professional Heavyweight Boxer

- Chris "Macerz" McCabe -
2 x ABA Champion & IBA Light Middleweight Champion

- "Young" "King" Hughie Fury -
Professional Heavyweight Boxer

- Asgar Tair -
A massive Team Fury fan (Boxing)

- Larry "The Natural" Ekundayo -
Professional Light Middleweight Boxer & Prizefighter Champion

 

- Amanda Kelly -

2 x Thai Boxing World Champion & MMA Fighter
KO Gym, London

- Sohail Ahmad -
Professional Light Welterweight Boxer

- Bryony Tyrell -
MMA Fighter with Exile Gym, Southampton

- Beccy Davies -
Boxer & MMA Fighter with Dogs of War, Cardiff

- KC "Carnage" Kendall -
Welsh Correspondent for CAUK & MMA Fighter
with 3DMMA, Pontypridd

- Suzie Q Ramadan -
WBC & IBF Bantamweight Boxing Champion

- Mark Walker & Lisa - 
TRAD TKO Boxing Gym
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