The Heavyweight Champion when you were born?

Yeah we are only a person or 2 away from the civil war, My Great Grandad(Who I meet, pass in the late 80's) was born in 1902, but he got to meet many a civil war vet before they pass on. And to think Kissinger was born in the year of that wild brawl with Dempsey and Firpo.

 

Joe Louis

 

George Foreman

 

Holyfield

 

Which gives two possible age ranges.

 

George Foreman (first reign).

I need to mention that, when my late Grandfather (Djanders) was born, Jack Dempsey was the Heavyweight World Champion of Boxing.

 

It’s great that you got to meet your Great Grandad. Of 4 grandparents, 3 had passed before I was born - 2 passing just a year prior to my birth. I was lucky to have my grandmother for a good many years. She was an absolute card.

Speaking of those connections - there’s a YT clip of a very old guy on a mid 50s television show who claimed to have witnessed the assassination of Lincoln as a small child.

True for him or not, it was entirely possible given his age, and the gap between the two dates as at that time -

One last tidbit, the earliest born person to have had a photo taken of themselves was born in the early to mid 1700s - the photo in question was taken in the early to mid 1800s when the person was obviously very old.

Anyway, back to normal programming...

 

Joe Louis

 

Holmes

 

I saw a youtube video a while back on the oldest people photo. One of em born in the 1700's and died in about the mid 1850's or so was still wearing the 1700's style when he died. He still had his white wig, the sleeve coat dress tussles on the outer side ete. Like he never left the 1700's. It really made me wonder if we were immortal, when are you going to wake up one day and say wait, I can't buy my powder wig from the general store anymore??

 

Michael Dokes

 

December 1973...Big George.

 

This is like Boxing’s own Horoscope.

Which boxing star were you born under and does it influence your life and allow for accurate predictions?

Also, are there certain boxing star signs that are bound to get along while others are not?

Can a Larry Holmes fan happily coexist with an Ali fan? It’s all written in the boxing stars.

 

We sure did! Oh and by the way, I forgot: the basketball! (Larry Bird vs. Magic and Dominique and Michael and Isiah and them vs each other!-and in Puerto Rico where I lived at, all the Puerto Rican super stars nobody here knows played in the same era!) and the soccer! (Maradona, Hugo Sanchez, Bebeto!)

wow!