Old school boxing fans?

[sparkwizard]

How can you not like Lennox Lewis?

 

[f4radar]

“Old school boxing “ I’m thinking ABC Wide World of Sports in the early 70s

 

[sparkwizard]

Holmes, Ali, Frazier, Foreman, the true classics. Somehow, I never included Lennox Lewis with these skillful, powerful boxers.
He really was a well spoken, skillful boxer.
He was at the end of an era.

 

[superflea]

Ali was the Man. He was definitely my favorite. I hated when he did the "Rope-A-Dope" but it worked, especially against Foremen.

 

[sparkwizard]

I had money bet on Foreman that day. I should have known Ali would outsmart him.

 

[Itype2slo]

tex Cobb was better than that limey!

 

[sparkwizard]

Who else hated Howard Cosell?

 

[relicracing]

Sugar Ray, all day.

 

[RobertC]

Who else hated Howard Cosell?

I didn't hate him, but that voice and his inflections ... lol

 

[f4radar]

The Hit man, Hands of Stone, Sugar Ray, Marvelous Marvin, Kenny Norton, Jelly bean. My favorite fight, one I remember most, or most surprising was watching Buster Douglas chop Mike Tyson down out of nowhere.

 

[superflea]

Jelly bean??? do you mean Butter bean.

The Hit man, Hands of Stone, Sugar Ray, Marvelous Marvin, Kenny Norton, Jelly bean. My favorite fight, one I remember most, or most surprising was watching Buster Douglas chop Mike Tyson down out of nowhere.

 

[bmaclean]

Jelly bean??? do you mean Butter bean.

my dad was a huge Jerry Quarry fan. I remember he would take a beating but kept going

 

[sparkwizard]

I have been watching old fights on You Tube this winter. I watched Jerry Quarry take a beating from Big George the other night. It was pretty brutal, because Quarry kept refusing to fall down.

 

[superflea]

Poor old Jerry, he blocked a lot of punches with his face and it caught up to him. He turned into a 2yr old when he got older.

 

[f4radar]

Cooney and Quarry a couple of “great white hopes”
And then there was macho camacho

 

[pomfish]

Good thread, love old boxing.
Lennox Lewis was the real deal as far as power, finesse and endurance.

Jelly bean??? do you mean Butter bean.

OK if you can remember Butterbean, then you may be able to remember another fighter of the same starting era that was Tall Lanky Redneck (Kid Rock looking but stronger) dude that hit like freight train. Knocked guys out and fought weird, like bouncy up and down throwing from weird angles.
He got killed in a pickup truck shooting in the south, but cannot remember the guys name.
Would have been on EPSN Friday night fights back in the day.



EDIT ; I should have mentioned the mystery redneck was not heavyweight, probably middle.

 

[sparkwizard]

Duane Bobick, Joe Bugner, Jerry Cooney? (white heavy weights)

 

[sparkwizard]

Who remembers seeing Ali on the cover of Time magazine, in the hospital with a broken jaw?

I thought Frazier broke it, but another fighter whipped him.

 

[pomfish]

Duane Bobick, Joe Bugner, Jerry Cooney? (white heavy weights)

One more, but not from back in the day.

Tommy Morrison. (RIP)
John Wayne's Grandson.

 

[sparkwizard]

He was a heavy hitter, but I never could watch him, or the dirty, cheating Holyfield.
The Spinks brothers made me totally stop watching boxing.
George Foreman reinventing himself into a nice guy was a real inspiration. Love Big George!