What is your favorite boxing friendship?

How about Patterson-Liston? I read an article years ago that, after Clay won the title in Miami, Floyd, somewhat tentative, knocked on Liston's hotel room door and sat down with Sonny telling him that he still had a load of talent in front of him and to keep his head up. Floyd said 'I'm paraphrasing': "Sonny was strangely quiet and I thought he might just get up and want to start something so I headed for the door. As I was walking out Sonny said :Floyd? I turned around and he said: Thank you. Thank you very much!"

 

Roberto Duran & Esteban DeJesus.

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People still didn't understand HIV very well back in 1989, and many thought you could catch it through normal contact. Duran, evidently, had other priorities.

 

Yep.

 

Man tears.

 

Greb and Tunney

 

Holyfield and Bowe as friends.

 

Dempsey Tunney
Hearns Leonard
Holmes ****ey

 

I don't know how big a deal it is, but Ali and Zora Folley were very good friends, also Ali and Ezzard Charles.

 

In sugar ray robinsons autobiography it states that him and joe louis were great friends. He said that he wasnt allowed in the boxing gym where Joe Louis trained at because he was too young so he would carry Joe's stuff back and forth the gym for him

 

Yes I remember reading that. There is also great story about a young Sugar Ray in Detroit. Way before he began boxing, Joe simply knew him as the kid who walked around on his hands. He would walk around the whole outside of the gym like that.

 

Yes i remember reading that he would walk on his hands too. I also read that whilst he was walking on his hands he almost lost his fingers due to his hand landing on a pile of smashed glass.

 

Crossfit promotes all that handstand stuff very aggressively. Its a major part of their programming. If you check online there are hundreds of forum posts and videos dedicated to it. Ironically Sugar Ray was just some kid mucking around and already doing that.

 

I remember the story about a young Cassius Clay at the Rome Olympics in 1960 approaching Nino Benvenutti and saying: "You're the best white fighter in the world!"