What if you could have dinner with any five figures from boxing history?

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  1. mattdonnellon

    mattdonnellon Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Well, no young Jack Johnson or Dempsey, too hungry...and Galento, Ruiz and Butterbean out too!
     
  2. Melankomas

    Melankomas Corbett beats your favourite fighter

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    Dempsey
    Wills
    Klompton
    Seamus
    Tunney

    Then the following weekend I’d go with:

    Jeffries
    Mcvey
    Jeffries
    Mendoza
    Janitor
     
  3. White Bomber

    White Bomber Boxing Addict Full Member

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    SRR, Mike Tyson, Sonny Liston, Harry Greb, Jack Dempsey / Marvin Hagler.
     
  4. janitor

    janitor VIP Member

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    Do you think that we could drag Jeffries off Mendoza?
     
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  5. MaccaveliMacc

    MaccaveliMacc Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Jack Johnson, Muhammad Ali, Tyson Fury, Nat Fleischer, Jimmy Jacobs.
     
  6. Flavius

    Flavius Member Full Member

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    I would choose some funny guys with a sense of humour.
    Max Baer, Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson, Carnera and a true gentleman Jim Corbett.
     
  7. nyterpfan

    nyterpfan Active Member Full Member

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    1) Ray Arcel
    2) Eddie Futch
    3) Angelo Dundee
    4) Gil Clancy
    5) Manny Steward

    Literally like having dinner with 5 prominent boxing PHD's!!
     
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  8. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I like this.

    It made me think — if I could have a dinner with a duo I might just go Clancy and Tim Ryan. Best broadcasting pair in boxing history.
     
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  9. nyterpfan

    nyterpfan Active Member Full Member

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    They were fabulous--always great on the call!

    Tim Ryan and Gil Clancy have no equals--best boxing broadcast team of all time!
     
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  10. he grant

    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    There are so many combinations but I'd want : And I'm making it six ...

    Peter Jackson
    Jack Johnson
    Harry Wills
    Joe Louis
    Muhammad Ali
    Mike Tyson
     
  11. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    OK, but we need to inform you that we’re adding 18% gratuity for a party of this size.
     
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  12. PRW94

    PRW94 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Archie Moore
    Benny Leonard
    Emile Griffith
    Jack Sharkey
    Ray Arcel
     
  13. bigboxinghippo420

    bigboxinghippo420 Member Full Member

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    sonny liston, carlos monzon, emmanuel augustus, roberto duran and sergey kovalev (he knows how to put liquor away)
     
  14. James Hudson

    James Hudson Active Member Full Member

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    My list would be as follows......

    Got to have Ali there
    Marvellous Marvin Hagler
    Benny Lynch as I grew up in the same area as him
    Hit Man Hearns
    Angelo Dundee
    Mills Lane
     
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  15. thistle

    thistle Boxing Junkie

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    Gilbert Odd
    Frank Butler
    Eugene Henderson
    Jock McAvoy
    Bert Gilroy...

    there are quite a few others who should be present, but they are a good start...
    Q & A, bigtime, with ALL the Documentation, Ratings & Reports copied & placed in front of each of them.
    That would be an interesting night.