Trevor Berbick W10 Greg Page 1982: impressions, memories?

Yeah.... I wish I had a friggin' copy of that fight and the "Tillis-Shavers" bout also on the card....... "Holmes-Cooney" was the main event........

Page claimed he trained too hard and was drained at his lightest weight of 221 pounds. Still, Trevor Berbick looked strong and bullish in that ring...... Page also injured his left thumb in the bout...... I haven't seen the fight since it aired back in 1982.....

MR.BILL

 

NOPE! I need that fight too....... I have the main event of "Holmes-Spoon" and "Weaver-Dokes 2" on tape......

MR.BILL

 

After Page choked and looked a slob in blowing his newly acquired WBA belt to Tony Tubbs in 1985, Page sorta' just went to hell.... Page was washed up in the late 80s, but he made a brief comeback of sorts in the early 90s.....

After Page blew his title to Tubbs, I just stopped paying attention to Page's career... I didn't tape any 'Page' fights again until 1992 when he was clocked and stopped by Razor Ruddock on Showtime......

MR.BILL

 

It was his right thumb actually, he broke it. In round 2 i believe. He did claim fighting about 10 pounds lighter than normal drained him.


Berbick did fight a fantastic fight tho, bulling and rushing Page and negating his great jab. It was a good wake up call for Page, but unfortunately he lacked the mental strength and determination to take advantage of his ridiculous talent.

Probably the best he ever was vs a good opponent was vs Snipes, and he was at his most determined vs Coetzee.

 

I remember being quite shocked ! Page was one of those who were being billed as the future dominant heavyweight after Larry Holmes. If only Greg had fulfilled his potential.

 

Indeed, he was actually THEE touted one, with Dokes rated a bit behind him. Niether fulfilled their potential, tho both gave it a very brief fling.

 

I can remember reading an issue of Ring Magazine back in '81 where there was an article saying that a Page-Cooney fight would be one of the fights of the 80's.

 

Page was being hyped as a future champ but with all respect, I was never sold on him ... even as an amateur when he was highly publicised on USA v.s. The World series, Page managed to never show up for the fights against the Cuban team and it's great amateur heavyweights ... always a Jimmy Clark or someone else would take that bout ...

Berbick has become very underrated because of the way he was blown out by Tyson but Berbick was a very big, strong, well conditioned and funky guyto fight ... similar in a way to a Bonevena ... he simply manhandled Page much like Hamsho did to Czyz ...

I really do not think any injury mattered. Berbick was way too strong and bulled him all over the ring ...it was not even close, Page was thrashed. It was a big upset at he time as Page was undefeated and the undercard fight on such a big night was supposed to be a showcase for him ...

 

Yeah, Berbick was a bit of a beast really. Not a devastating puncher but just a strong bullish fighter with decent work rate, and fearless.

He was inconsistent though. Funnily enough, he risked his rating against Snipes in his next fight and Snipes actually had him down once or twice and beat him over 10 rounds. Another decent fight, another chapter in the musical chairs of 80s heavyweight contenders and alphabet champs.

 

If I'm remembering correctly those knockdowns were due to Snipes atomic right hand.

Not very many fighters that could stand up to that shot, if it landed clean.

 

Yeah, it was the right hand.
Berbick-Snipes was a heck of a fight. It's actually on youtube.

After Snipes beat Berbick he went and lost 3 in a row. To Greg Page, Alfredo Evangelista and Rickey Parkey.

 

Well isn't that the name of the game a lot of the time?

Come in mentally prepared, razor sharp focus and in good physical shape. Put on a great winning performance.

Climb the mountain then tumble off like Snipes did.

Takes a lot of mental power to stay on top after climbing that mountain. The likes of Witherspoon could have done it if they had the mental strength of a Holmes.

Page could have as well, ****, Snipes could have potentially been great more then likely.

 

I agree 100%. Lots of fighters have a night or two when they are operating at the level required. But it takes consistency and some degree of luck (not to mention management) to have the success necessarily to have a truly great career.