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Always a pleasure, more stuff to be posted from me in the new year, tonight is reserved for beer, wine and watching some of the stuff submitted so far.
Have yourselves a drink, chaps, and SKILLS...you have ten drinks for putting up Thread Of The Year.
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[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x40HigpdewE[/ame]
Turpin looked so good at LHW, I'd love to know what he was capable of at that weight. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o8xB9rI5EM[/ame] Hank lands a wicked right hand at the end and Roderick displays some Lennox esq holding and hitting. The commentator is, erm, of his time. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpdGFK_mqZI[/ame] Lennox Lewis holding and hitting. The ref Big Geroge
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Its an underrated win for Turpin probably because he moved back down to middle and lost to Bobo Olsen and Mitri and that was that. He probably should have remained at Light Heavyweight on the Cockell showing, he looked so strong there but against Olsen he took a harsh beating and against Mitri his chin was cracked. Turpin V's Freddy Mills at Light Heavyweight would have been amazing. |
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Freddy Mills looked like a cartoon imo. He tucked his chin behind his shoulder and looked lopsided as a result and that was the extent of his defence. He just brawled like a madman and it was good enough to win the title against Gus Lesnevich. His manager was a dumb motherfucker though and had Mills fighting often and against heavyweights he had no business fighting. He faced Bruce Woodcock who knocked him out before he even defend the title and was also put in against Joe Baksi who beat the shite out of him in 6. His next fight after Woodcock knocked him out was a title defence was against Joey Maxim who, shock horror, knocked him out. I think the way he was handled was similar to the terrible job Bob Arum has done with Pacquiao. Yeah it's great watching a smaller man beat up bigger fighters (or in Mills case put up a demented losing effort) but that shit can ruin a fighter.
With a more sober matchmaker Mills could have had a better career and I'm speculating here but he probably suffered multiple concussions to the point of getting terrible depression and that's why he killed himself. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4gJ6fchxfs[/ame] Past his best and unable to keep the assault going. Come forward fighters without a great defence need protecting more than any other type of boxer imo. Hatton was thrown in with Collazo which was just dumb and it was on shortish notice. He was supposed to defend his title instead he had to move up and fight a big Welterweight because his new promoter dropped the ball and he took a beating in the last round. That was a waste of a fight and bad for his longevity. |
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