Does Lou Duva tick anybody off?

Real nice guy too Richard Never took a backward step did he

 

Holy cow.

What did Duva ever do but throw a temper tantrum, which is not an uncommon thing in boxing?

 

People lose their cool. Worse things have happened.

Don’t think it merits comparison to Sonny Liston who: spent time in prison, quit on the stool to give up the heavyweight title, did whatever the heck you want to call it in the rematch, was a major drug/booze abuser, apparently beat up people to collect mob debts, etc.

 

Agree. That was no knockout and he was clearly deprived of that victory

 

Right. It's not like Duva was a Carlos Monzon level low-life or something.

 

He was also pretty funny when he wanted to be. Not a full-time raving lunatic.

Best Lou Duva joke I remember: “I went on the 14-day diet and all I lost was two weeks.”

 

Duva was a dickhead for sure.

 

We used to refer to Duva as Popeye.

 

Benton was the trainer, Duva was a cheerleader who liked to make it all about himself.

 

Taylor suffered a broken eye socket, broken ribs, badly busted up face, had a lot of blood pumped from his stomach, was ****ing blood for weeks and was in hospital for almost 2 weeks following the fight

 

Benton was awesome. I wonder if he hindered him at times.