Boxing rumors you heard that turned out to be false

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  1. sweetsci

    sweetsci Well-Known Member Full Member

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    "Borrowed" from another forum. What are some boxing rumors or stories you heard, took as true, and later learned were false?

    I'd always believed the story that 14 year old Tony Ayala gave then-champion Pipino Cuevas fits in sparring.
     
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    That Deontay Wilder was any good.
     
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    Willie pep winning a round by not throwing a punch.For years I took it as gospel but I herd recently it was another bert sugerism
     
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    Eddie Machen was going to get a title shot against Muhammad Ali in 1965.
     
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    Lennox Lewis is gay.
     
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    has anyone ever actually confirmed whether or not Holyfield ever said he would 'never fight a convicted ******' when asked if he would ever fight Mike Tyson before their 96 clash?

    I've always heard a nasty rumor that Tommy Morrison new he was HIV positive since 1989, which would mean he kept fighting for 7 years knowing he had it
     
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  7. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    That wasn’t a rumor with Morrison. It was confirmed after he died.
     
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    That Tyson actually trained properly for Lewis.
     
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    Ray Robinson being undefeated in the amateurs
     
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    A young Jirov training against German Shepherds.
     
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    James Toney claimed that he knocked Vladimir Klitschko out in sparring. Years later Pepper Roach (who was there) came out said that while Toney held his own, he DID NOT knockout Klitschko.
     
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    Ditto Spadafora kicking Mayweather’s ass.
     
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    ....he’s not??? Wow
    This content is protected
     
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    That Liston took on 6 cops with night sticks, and battered all of em, lie............ it was 7 .
     
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    I did know that Sonny Liston beat up a police officer, put him upside down in a dumpster located in an alley in 1957, it returned him to prison for a short period.
     
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