And he certianly didn't have enough legs left to run for 3 minutes ... as noted, that was not his style, he was never a runner. And God forbid an old man forgetting what he told someone 20 years earlier. If that means someone has poor character, there's a lot of old men headed to hell in a handbasket. SMH
Funny... I watched the Bumphus Mad Dog Hatcher fight today. Duva up tp his typical nonsense during and after the fight's concluding moments.
I'm not slamming Duva's character. Only pointing out that he gave poor advice to a fighter who was ahead and thoroughly spent. Taylor was ****ing blood after the fight and spent several days in the hospital. I am pretty sure Lou watched that fight several times within that 20 year period and was given plenty of criticism for the advice he gave Meldrick, so I doubt the memory was all that diminished.
I remember Lou in Ft Worth Tx a few years back He had a guy named Ed Hopson who supposedly had the fastest hands going & was a future champ. He was due to fight Troy Dorsey but Troy pulled out injured & they brought in a tough Mexican guy named Angel Aldama. Hopson wanted to look spectacular as Troy was rigside & tried to Ko Aldama. He couldn't & the longer it went the more frustrated Hopson got. He threw low blows , headbutts & every dirty trick in the book. Eventually the latest butt opened a huge cut over Aldama's eye & the bout had to be stopped. Roger Bloodworth was singing Hopson's praises & took offense when I said Hopson should have been DQ'd & would never make a champion. Roger was about to start on me when Lou Yelled " Stop it Roger the man's right" great character Lou hope he is still still enjoying good health
Snowell did a good job with Randall. You could see Randall was in excellent shape for that fight. And Snowell did a good balancing act in the corner during the fight of encouraging Randall, remaining calm, and giving good instructions. That fight was so inspirational to me that I wrote an impassioned letter to KO, which they published in their "fans speak out" section or whatever they called it. I believe it was the June 1994 issue with Humberto Gonzalez on the cover. I remember the letter published under mine was a letter by Teddy Brenner so I felt like I had written a good piece if they picked it for publication. I wrote maybe a dozen of those to KO or one of its sister publications and the only other one they published was in 1985 when I was 16 yrs old. It was regarding the lightweight comeback of Cornelius Boza-Edwards.
There are some fantastic insights into how Lou Duva truly was in Vinny Pazienza's "Fight or Die" book. I think the book is a terrific read and it provides an eye-opening glimpse not only into Pazienza's (that's how I remember him - the full name) career, life and times during a smoldering personal era, it provides the reader with an off-camera look at the business nature and true persona of Duva as well as a few others boxing names.