Will we ever see scenes like this in Oz again?

http://www.lionelrose.com.au/Gallery.php

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Returning from Tokyo where he dethroned BW great Fighting Harada, Rose was welcomed home in the most extraordinary way, an estimated 250,000 crammed the streets of Melbourne to celebrate his achievement.

Will we ever see anything like this in Australia again? Keep in mind that in the last 10 years we've had two unified champions who call Australia home.


*Edit: Refering to the image in the gallery of the motorcade making it's way through the Melbourne crowd. Sorry cant seem to get the image up on my post.

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^ I saw it at JB-HIFI a while back, been meaning to get back down there and buy it the last coupla months but havent had the time. Looking forward to see it though.

 

Thank you for putting the photo up. Came across it while looking through some images of Lionel this morning, actually made me a little sad and highlighted to me the state boxing is in these days. There was a time when THAT is what it meant to be world champion and to be celebrated and recognised as the best without question. That is what it meant as a boxer and his fans.

We'll never see anything like this for any Australian sportsman in the future, dunno why, maybe the times have just moved on. I think you may have been right about Dave Sands though, definately if he'd had his shot at Robinson.

Darcy's funeral proccesion was something entirely unique, i've heard of estimations of around 700,000 mourners, which to me sounds like a sizable chunk of the population at that time. Im a strong believer that no child should be raised in Australia not knowing who Les Darcy is. He's a very important part of our history, as is Lionel.

 

Spot on. In the immortal words of the highlander "there can be only one".

More titles means more fighters wont take unnecessary risks, seems to be an unnatural obsession with clean records, one loss and fighters seem to be labelled "shot". Fact is most of the matchups fans would love to see never come to fruition because of these elements

 

Darcy's Funeral Proccession, East Maitland

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