Legendary Nights of British Boxing

im watchin JCC vs Taylor on youtube now. good stuff so far, i dont know much about taylor at all

 

Thats one of the episodes thats done with a particular slant on one boxer, its worth watching the whole fight afterwards and making your own mind up.

 

fuuuuck meldrick taylors interview is a sad, sad thing to watch. horrible speech

 

Gaz, I think we've talked about this before, but that episode on Chavez-Taylor was nearly as shameful as HBO's biased commentary during the fight. It was the first I'd heard of it and they made it sound like Julio was getting battered.

When I watched the fight I thought it was really close, with Taylor a round or two ahead at most before he got knocked out.

 

Yep mate, I think maybe internal politics got involved and they had to support the HBO commentary when they made the Legendary Nights episode. Plus I guess that angle was pretty emotional for the casual fans.

There were also conspiracy theories that Leonard got a raw deal in "his" 2 episodes because he'd left the HBO boxing team shortly before the series was commissioned. Could well be bollocks though....

 

gonna watch the hagler hearns LN now. ive seen the fight plenty of times, should be good to watch though

 

The sudden, prolonged silence from the hbo commentators after Chavez wobbled Taylor was priceless.

 

Well Leonard did duck Pryor

Actually, I was reading Mcillvaney on Boxing the other night. Leonard said after beating Hearns that he was interested in fighting Pryor. Certainly that's how Hugh wrote it up. But I guess the detached retina put paid to it, same as any fight with Hagler or a rematch with Hearns at that point.

 

It was hilarious - almost like the knockdown didn't happen.

 

Even if you get into the "he said, she said" and sparring story side of Leonard-Pryor the bottom line is that Pryor never bothered to fight at 147 while Leonard was active.

As the guy moving up in weight chasing the payday the onus was on him to show willing rather than just "calling out" Leonard.

 

Yep, Leonard "ducking" Pryor is a big myth.

 

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My search for Pyatt v Kalambay proved fruitless but I did find this. Commentators not so compassionate back in the day

 

a classic boxer versus fighter with the fighter prevailing:good