Pentridge Prison RS5 Bluestone BoxingChallenge 1980s

Professional boxers and athletes sparring Melbourne underworld inside one of Victoria's toughest and oldest prisons.

[@jefe58]

The guy who won the push up contest didn’t even do a full push up once 😆

[@TheWeebs1968]

My favourite race was the stocking race, where they had to wear a stocking on their head while sprinting 100 metres while carrying a tv and a VCR under their arms.

[@matthewtunney7331]

Your not a man until you had a man and I have had some lovely little things in my time, more like I had them.bent over holding the tv ohhh the good old days getting me going here

[@korranis1]

⁠@@matthewtunney7331were u watching prisoner on the tv while u were getting ur 💩hole thrashed

[@Anthony-Testicali]

​@@matthewtunney7331Your a mans man no doubt Bruce

[@robertkidd2192]

Ross Frankin , Marcus Soames , Mark Smith , Lee Tourney , Billy Pideaux - all my era ;)

[@aurtherbrunt241]

Mark Smith, Coburg Tech.

[@danrobinson572]

What year was this?

[@TeeTee-ed3hz]

Is that you Bert

[@danrobinson572]

@@TeeTee-ed3hz is it you John Wayne

[@bencraddock7132]

Mark Smith was a gentleman

[@snrotabcd9500]

Man I wish someone done this to me as a kid

[@TowerKing-xygt]

Lee Torney back in the day RIP

[@paulcooper5748]

Which one is that one.

[@TowerKing-xygt]

The dangerous looking one

[@paulcooper5748]

@@TowerKing-xygt Still not sure which one it is.

[@TowerKing-xygt]

@@paulcooper5748 2.06 into video Lee is sitting front left side with the goatee beard

[@peternut358]

@@paulcooper5748Front left

[@josephkelly4893]

Luv ya Markie.

[@chestercampbell4547]

1:10 When The Dealer Says Come Around I've Got Some💨

[@LSD123.]

Too funny.

[@gerardleahy8086]

All pleaded not guilty.

[@YoutubeManiac-mx9xf]

Where's chopper lol?!

[@danrobinson572]

In H-division

[@rabbits77]

Chopper was in the barbers lowering his ears

[@headmondronary2127]

I've often wondered, what's the point of these guys, what can they ever contribute as a whole to the community? Well I was wrong. This is a great example of their contribution. All power to them, they still have to serve their sentence but at least they're able to give something back to all the harm and cost they've caused.

[@peterstone6571]

Spent some good times in A division. Glory days!

[@LSD123.]

You obviously suck at life...

[@Anthony-Testicali]

D block right? You little ripper!

[@johngilmore697]

Grow up

[@Anthony-Testicali]

@@johngilmore697 You grow up Elsie yer dunny mouth

[@BS21BS21]

Where’s the Saigon Tiger ?

[@jasonthomas4973]

What a joke I did that it did not a thing to help just ment I new more guys in jail sad place 😢

[@peternut358]

Dugan was a top bloke

[@rhiannonisastar]

As far as magistrates and judges go lol.... kidding. Duggan had an incredible amount of respect from so many inmates, not an easy accomplishment when ur the one serving out the punishments either. I only ever met him as a kid, but he definitely had spunk....n he n Graham Kennedy coulda been twins.

[@Anthony-Testicali]

Jeez that bloke could hold his liquor

[@mastaroshi23]

So what's the deal here with the first segment? As a younger bloke i have no idea what the result was and what the general public thought of it. Did they ever do another athletics day like that?

[@rhiannonisastar]

Yes, they also held Boxing tournaments at Loddon. So they must of elsewhere. That all stopped when prison started operating for profit instead of reintegration.

[@mastaroshi23]

@@rhiannonisastar thank you for the reply, that's what I was thinking the end result might of been. You can see by how into the main fight everyone was in this footage that could of easily done a "street beefs" equivalent were prisoners could fight and resolve issues in the ring, but as the rest of this shows it was rough as back when so maybe it couldn't of worked. Fuck the industrial prison complex system. Cheers again for the reply

[@paulcooper5748]

What year was this.?

[@rhiannonisastar]

1987

[@GreyManTheory]

Is this before, during or after Nam?

[@rhiannonisastar]

Much after, nearly 2 decades after

[@GreyManTheory]

@@rhiannonisastar haha I meant as in Nam the "Saigon Tiger" inmate

[@evolveausevolveaus]

​@@GreyManTheorybefore Nams days, he had a big name in the 90s

[@Isaiah54V7]

Anyone else surprised at how well spoken they are?

[@karlmuller3690]

Burchor - No, not at all. You'd be surprised at the type of blokes you meet in Jail. They're not all "Uncle Chop-Chop", there were blokes when I did time up here in N.S.W Jails, that were ex-students of some of THE most elite Schools and from the homes of top flight Lawyers and Doctor's, I was the Son of a Warrent Officer 1st Class (Regimental Sargent Major) so I can tell you, it not just the Son's and Daughters of the "Underpriverliged" or the "Working Class", though they do comprise the majority, that end up in a place like Pentridge. A lot us do some stupid, or nasty shit, as the famous Philosopher, Freidrich Niezche put it,"Human ... all TOO Human".

[@fingerprint5511]

They speak differently in Melbourne, English is well enunciated compared to ssy, Sydney.

[@TeeTee-ed3hz]

@@karlmuller3690 Great comment and so true

[@piercetheflesh9085]

No

[@sesetuiniua9588]

I hated pentridge

[@johngilmore697]

That's surprising

[@Daniel26448]

Imagine if you would have spent time there.

[@aussieyobbosworld]

It didnt work

[@rhiannonisastar]

No, funding was cut. But it did actually have a 99% success rate.