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10-03-2020, 02:28 AM( This post was last modified: 10-03-2020, 02:34 AM by BA0701 )
(10-03-2020, 02:14 AM)TinoArmando Wrote:
(10-02-2020, 09:41 PM)BA0701 Wrote: Since the recent postings of Big Boy, this also just showed up in my YT feed, completely out of the blue. I am not sure I have even searched for anything regarding him, or any of the other subjects in the video in quite awhile. This particular video is comprised of two separate incidents, both involving the Sand River Male "Bent Spine" At the 5:44 mark (I will attempt to timestamp it, but that doesn't always work for some reason, recently), a young Big Boy Charleston gets in to a rather serious fight with Bent Spine, over a giraffe carcass.
The first fight with Bent Spine on this video, is of him being mauled pretty good by 3 Maginilane, and is also worth the watch.
**EDIT** It did not take the time stamp, the fight with Big Boy takes place at 5:44
Big Boy was actually very big compared to the Sand River male who was much older than him.
Also I remember heard that the Charleston were much larger than the Gowrie males (2017 or so).
I think experience won the day in the particular instance. There is a moment where Big Boy throws him down using only one leg, and made it look very easy. The Sand River Bent Spine male was incredibly tough, though, in both battles shown in this video. Big Boy became force to be reckoned with.