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.
The good old days of video s, Goo. I vividly remember buying it, watching it. Then getting my bud round and watching it with him. He enjoyed it that much he asked could he watch it again the next night.lol But that was back in the day when you could very rarely get any thing on classic boxing available. And it was an excellent video.
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…
It's really sad. To think when the documentary was made the guys were still only in their 40s ! Crazy.
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 !!!!!
Now that is bloody scary, shows how much time has past and how fast it's going.. I need a sit down.lol
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!
So right pugs. I was born only 25 year's after ww2 , now to me I can remember 2000 like it was yesterday, but ww2 to me as a kid... ancient history!
I remember that series coming out. I bought them when and where I could get the chance, I wish I'd had the complete collection.
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.