Anyone Remember Livingstone Bramble?

How did Larry act? Most guys are nice. The guy some people think is not nice is Evander Holyfield.

 

Bramble admitted to being involved with dogfighting back in the day. Always bothered me. Hopefully he's a better person now.

 

Bramble was a good fighter with a style that was difficult for many fighters but not unbeatable....with Mancini his style was perfect as he had a high guard that was perfect for Mancini's hooks, narrow punching style up the middle again perfect for Mancini's wide body and punching style....he beat alot of good fighters but lost some fights that caught many off guard when Rosario caught him the focus reshifted from Bramble being the guy to the talent of Rosario who had been one of the hardest all time punchers at 135 with skill and speed to boot...his star fell pretty fast after that loss but he was a world class guy

 

I think someone called Bramble "Coconut Head" .....because hitting Bramble in the head was like
hitting a rock the opponent boxer said.

 

the magazine had a quote which said "Rosario turns Bramble's Coconut head to custard"

 

That isn't rambling at all. That is a great story. We need more stories like that. Good information. Larry has no right to question people. It takes money to run any organization and to bring it up like that and putting people on the spot is typical Larry. Someone should have asked him why he continued to sing with such a terrible group he put together. Actually the group of musicians he had was ok. Larry was just a terrible singer. It is funny about the autographs. I remember hearing Hearns was at one of those conventions where they charge to get autographs and he was signing people's autographs in the bathroom for those who didn't have money to attend. That is one of the reasons I like Tommy.

 

I followed Bramble as well .. if there was any boxer who succeeded because of his jab , it was Bramble. And man it was a good one ..not talked about often but it was one of the best, imo..sure he was tough but even Ras-I will tell you, if it wasn't for my jab , you never would have heard of me

 

He also practiced witchcraft I believe … I've sailed the Caribbean twice and let me tell you those islanders are basically cut off from the rest of the world .. They are strong, cut and most live off the land, taking care of an island, through hard manual labor in the hot sun. A lot of them carry around there work machetes and man I have never felt so intimidated in my entire life ..

 

He got robbed against Carr. Thought he beat Griffin too.

 

I think he claimed that he got thumbed (badly) in the Rosario fight, fwiw.

I thought he deserved the win against Carr.

 

He was hit in the eye with something if not a thumb, but Rosario might have just hit that hard. It was a left uppercut in the 2nd round. Rosario was not missing at all and it wouldn't have made a difference. Bramble was demolished. It was amazing to see Bramble one of the top fighters at the time completely dismantled, and once Rosario started to land it was just worse and worse with momentum. Bramble had no where to do but down. Stylistically Rosario could not miss with anything. Yet I think Mancini fights him better than Bramble did. I guess that would not be too hard to do.

 

Classic response. lol.

 

Kostya fought bramble on the way up (can't recall watching that) n won on points,
Then Shannon Taylor KOs him in the 1st ( I remember that one) n they were trying to make a big deal about it to fuel the rivalry with tszyu.
I actually felt sorry for bramble, he was that far over the hill.