Sugar Ray Seales

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  1. timmers612

    timmers612 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I wondered if that huge hook Marvin hit him with got through because of Seales by then lessened vision. He didn't even get a glimps of it. Seales beat my buddy Doug Demmings by a hair on one of Dougies best nights. Then again Doug didn't see the bomb from Hagler that took him out either though.
     
  2. Manassa

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    Demmings actually took a fair bit of punishment from Hagler before going out.
     
  3. jyuza

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    Definitely :good
     
  4. JohnThomas1

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    The poorguy was still fighting when he was almost blind, apparently he knew the eye chrat test pattern off by heart.
     
  5. AREA 53

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    Ron - Wasnt that the fight where Minter may of been stopped a few rounds later because of an Enormously ugly Egg-Sized Lump that had came up on Alan's Forehead, But he found Seales with the shot he was look for,
     
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    ..............Either that or they just didn't give him the test.
     
  7. JohnThomas1

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    I have a mag here (somewhere) from about hmmmm 1982 and he claimed he knew what letters they would ask off by heart. Pretty silly of him tho, really.
     
  8. jyuza

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    Kind of strange... indeed.
     
  9. timmers612

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    Manassa, did you see the Hagler-Demmings fight? Let me know as I have some questions about it if you did. Thanks.
     
  10. JohnThomas1

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    Yeah, 100% money based.
     
  11. ThinBlack

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    Had eye problems, got beaten by Marvin Hagler, and lost to James Shuler in his last meaningful fight.