Sparring Stories

May 1987, weeks before Mike Tyson was to face Pinklon Thomas, it was said that James Broad floored Tyson twice one day in sparring. Tyson was also cut over the eye....something one could see in an ABC special done a few days or a week or so later, with Alex Wallau.

 

re: mays - manny steward said he was best ever in the kronk....even above hearns when he was there...but he was an amatuer...he left steward when he was a pro.
I got to speak to steward about him once.

 

Ty Biggs deffo says that Holyfield Tyson sparred 1983 and 4...not much in it.
Bowe came to Duva's and was a poor trainer...Biggs put him down with a body shot and Duva threw Bowe out as he saw him as a quitter.

 

And of Bowe.....there were a dozen or so witnesses to an event where a known cruiserweight knocked him cold, in the gym, circa 1991....! This tale gets scoffed at...but it did happen.

 

Mike should be ashamed of himself, James was well faded by that time.

 

that's if its actually true.

especially coming from a newbie

 

the Holyfield Tyson sparring session is true. I did a thread on it while back.

there seems to be 2 versions of it though

Tyson was also knocked out cold by Firday Ahunya in sparring around the etienne fight i think

 

Mickey Rourke claims he worked as a sparring partner for Duran and James Toney.
I'd like to read some eye-witness reports on how that turned out.

 

Jimmy Wilde knocked Bombadier Billy Wells down twice in sparring.

 

Tommy Morrison and Razor Ruddock both knocked Bowe out in sparring sessions.

 

I've also read that Rourke sparred with Tommy Hearns and was put to sleep, he said he was still being sick days after.

 

wasn't there a video a couple years ago or so of Amir Khan getting hit clean and often by an amateur from Uzbekistan or some place like that?

an MMA one Dave Meltzer once said, when Vic Darchinyan was thinking of doing an MMA match awhile back, him and Ronda Rousey had a private exhibition of sorts that was being taped, Rousey almost immediately got Darchinyan in an armbar and Vic's people stepped in and stopped it before Darchinyan was forced to tap or anything, tape likely was destroyed

 

Or it could be a false story?

Gene Lebelle claimed Rousey would have beat Bruce Lee.

 

It is too late for them to have dicky skeletons and bones.
Same with muscular hyperplasia.
Some say it is impossible past birth, some say it is impossible past adulthood, IDK.
With aves it was shown to be possible during whole life.
Same with brains even.
Also no currently known PED turns them into actual dicks, and believe it or not, some things can not happen without a certain genotype, so I believe.

However it can enlarge their clits into nearly dicky dimensions.

 

John Tate reportedly messed up Leon Spinks.