really brian london - out boxed floyd patterson 'enry copper - knocked down ali and made dundee all types of tricks to save him. joe bugner was a decent heavy he had a great fight with ali frazier and even when he was 40 odd years old was fighting bruno in a really compettative fight. to say they were weak is true as julius francis wasnt amazing but men like sprott ,williams even skelton i feel should do alot at the eurpean stage and a have a decent crack at the world stage maybe not sprott but he could give some protected heavies a bad reputatoin
i have been saying this for years he is a politician not a boxer he picks his fights so well and does all these tricks to stay on his feet....and then smiles and says im going to knokc him out just to make every one think he is the real deal...6 wieght classes is very good amazing almost but his wins over people were very very dubios his only robbery was trinidad...thats it
Immediately after Smith kayoed Frank Bruno, he was asked why he did nothing for the first nine rounds, and he simply replied that it was "Because I was tight!" To me, Smith/Tyson looked an awful lot like Smith/Bruno, except that in the case of Smith/Tyson James waited until the end of round 12 to get uncorked. Bonecrusher Smith is one of the more frustrating cases in heavyweight history to me. At his very best, he was a big and very well conditioned fellow who could bomb an opponent out quickly, or maintain kayo power for as long as a match lasted. Larry Holmes took him on coming off the Bruno kayo, and may have been the only man in boxing who could have scored a stoppage over him at that high point in his career. Although he did get the knockout against Bruno, Frank had done all the work up to that point, and it seems to me that referee Harry Gibbs could have tossed Smith out of the bout for not fighting by the time the tenth frame had rolled around. If you don't make an effort to compete, should you be given a chance to win? In Kinshasa, Ali gave Foreman seven rounds of hell before knocking him out. Yes, Muhammad was laying back on the ropes, but he was also zapping George with lightning bolt rights the whole time, hardly punching bag behavior.
All the way back from 2007 (that's 15 years ago fellas). Unreal. Love seeing these old school threads with nostalgic posters, some that are still here. I'll go out on a limb and say Laila Ali for not fighting Ann Wolfe...
That was the slowest drop kick in history, the whole thing looked like it was in slow motion. Damn its funny.
He used to post here and somewhere else. I think he said he had bipolar and when he was on he’d really be flying on his keyboard.
I could put something in here about Gene Tunney, but I'm biting my 2 typing fingers and trying to be good here in Maine.
Don't be biting your fingers, please use em to type your Tunney tale. You know your insights are a valued commodity on the forum, forget being good, be bad for the briefest of moments
I don’t know who you are, Decy, or what might have become of you, but respect to you for your avatar. I saw your avatar and thought, hmmm…I don’t remember writing this post
