Champion s Forever.

Yes it would have marred a great occasion had Muhammad and Joe started brawling. I also heard that story about Joe being drunk at the dinner.

 

Yep. I had it too. I was a kid working in a grocery store in 1989 when that video cassette came out and the store was selling it. As soon as I got my paycheck I bought a copy . Had it for many years and watched it many times. Don’t what happened to it but I don’t even have a cassette player anymore anyway.

 

Absolutely. On a side note it saddens me that 4 out of the 5 participants on that documentary are deceased while the last remaining one is getting up there in age. One of the hard truths of life…

 

Actually on Youtube with the dinner ..

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Very nostalgic. One of my favorite boxing docs.

 

You know what’s scary ? 1989 was 36 years ago. Now If you were to go back 36 years FROM 1989, that takes us to 1953 !!!!!

 

Remember the BOXERS series put out by Marshall Cavendish?

You could buy them periodically from your local news agent and a brief magazine came along with them also . Relatively cheap at the time.

I think the first 2 that I bought were the profiles on Jack Johnson and Joe Louis containing a lot more footage than I had seen to date.

I remember my news agent also put out a series of replica WW2 military watches for each country in question. I ummed and ahhed on those but didn’t jump on them - the watches looked pretty cool though.

 

Funny. When we were kids, 20-30 years prior seemed like eons ago. Even by the mid 70s, the end of WW2 was only 30 years prior - but as kids it seemed like it was 100 years ago!

 

Just a bit of tangent - I’ve been watching the series Liberation D Day to Berlin. The amazing enhancements to the old footage make the war look far less antique and far more recent and relatable in visual terms.

 

That video is priceless. Have you watched the out takes at the end? Where Joe is arguing about the judges after drinking all day. He stands up and they all werent sure if he was serious. Norton was heckling Frazier the entire time.