Boxing rumors you heard that turned out to be false

Lennox Lewis is taking a tune couple of tune bouts and will fight Vitali Klitschko.

 

Morrison was known to brag about it to his friends.

 

I despise Bert Sugar.

 

Carlos Monzon dropping Joe Frazier in sparring.

 

Nah one look at his body compared to other fights and it's all you need to know. Second worst condition of his career after Nielsen

 

That Duran blew up to 190-200lbs weeks after his first fight with Leonard, and that Leonard and Dundee were so shrewd that they tricked him into a quick rematch, knowing that he wouldn't be able to get sharp and in shape before the rematch in late November.

That Marciano ran 9-10 miles per day in training camp, increasing it to 12-15 miles per day the week of the fight.

That Pep won that round without throwing a punch.

 

Cus Gay and aids ridden what!?

 

He lies too often and overacts much more then not.

 

I’m more curious how they assumed he was gay? What made people widely assume Cus was a homosexual?

 

It’s more my distaste towards his persona and image, it seems so forced as for his lies it isn’t anything major just little things casual fans will buy and will fly under the radar even with educated fans.

He rubs me the wrong way but he is a good man.

 

The era of the fedora is ovah....ovah.....anyone who wears one today deserves the moniker "doofus hipster"//

 

That Holyfield was the good clean Christian who would save boxing and boxing’s tarnished reputation after Tyson went to prison and came out more an animal.

From the entire Evan Fields saga, HGH, to having kids with multiple woman other than his wife, headbutts etc etc. this was obviously not the case.

I guess I’m just disappointed in myself since I bought into it.

 

The rumor/myth of Mike Tyson being defended by a tax lawyer in his **** trial.

 

There was also this weird passage from Gay Talese:

D'Amato's peculiar behavior did not go unnoticed by sportswriters. At other training camps, they'd seen D'Amato actually sleep in the same bed with Floyd. Whatever his explanations, D'Amato's actions seemed to go beyond propriety. He seemed obsessed with his fighter, but what was the source of his obsession? Was the guy a genius or was he half-mad? Or was there something else?

"I remember a story that Patterson told me," author Gay Talese, who knew both Patterson and D'Amato well, once said. "I got the impression that D'Amato had a sexual thing for Patterson—not that Patterson reciprocated. Patterson told me he was lying in bed and D'Amato was lying next to him, slipped perhaps into bed, I don't know. It was a training camp, you know. Prizefighters in training camp are intimately open, not sexually, but you are naked, you are free, there is a lot of openness. But this one time in bed, D'Amato had his foot on Patterson's foot, sort of playing with his toes." Perhaps it was totally innocent, an involuntary action by a man deep in slumber. But Talese was not alone in speculating about D'Amato's feelings toward Patterson. It was hard to tell the truth of the matter, for D'Amato was such an off-center man. "D'Amato was an eccentric," Talese said, "amusing, but I think probably borderline psychotic or paranoid." But Floyd himself once gave a curious answer to a question about his relationship with D'Amato, one bound to raise eyebrows in the 1950s: "He makes mistakes, but the more they try to turn me against him, the more his quality comes out. Lucky he isn't a woman. I might have married him."



https://deadspin.com/blackmail-sexual-obsession-fight-fixing-behind-the-w-30777471

 

That Clay threw his Gold Medal in the river after being denied a seat at a diner.