Jones to have landed flush with his gloved fist instead of wrist in the first round with Calzaghe and khtfo. Not that I wish any malice to Joe (I quite like him actually) but it would have been a great note for Roy to finish his career on and perhaps would have spared him and us his increasingly sad career twilight, fighting nobodies in Siberia or God knows where for peanuts. Roys a decent guy and deserves better for mine.
He actually won a couple of nights ago by Ko2. Rumour has it theyre trying to set him up with Marco.Huck.
If i recall correctly Ali wanted to quit even asked them to cut off his gloves, dundee was trying to change his mind when futch stopped it. I might be wrong.
It's a myth about them wanting to pull Ali out and Ali wanting to pull out. Dundee confirmed that as rubbish saying there was simply no quit in Ali.
Tyrell Biggs to beat Tyson. Oct 1987. Every time i watch that first round i think "c'mon Ty, you can do it" !! Then came the butts,the elbows,the hooks and late blows and it all rather fell apart. Would love to have seen Ty victorious.
If Cooper had been able to finish Ali off,it would have been interesting. Cooper would have got the shot against Liston and as Jim Wicks Coopers manager had said he wouldn't let Henry in the same town as Liston never mind the same ring!
Didn't Tyrell mock Tyson prior to the fight? Claiming he was going to slap Tyson around like a child, or like his daddy?
Whatever it was, Tyrell sure brought the sadist out of Mike. It may have been his mouth that got him in trouble or the fact the he was an Olympian with an attitude.
Tyson hated Tyrell, plus Tyrell had been making fun of Tysons amateur record and something about the olympics, Tyson didn't make it and Biggs bought this up, in a not so nice way. Plus i think it was Tyrell who said Holyfield got the better of Tyson in their sparring session. Oh and this was one of the few fights where Tyson spoke to his opponent mid fight. Tyson hit Biggs with an elbow to which Biggs replied "Man, you throwing elbows too?" To which Tyson replies "Forget about elbows, mother****er your gonna die, your gonna die!"
Mike always felt that he should have went to the Olympics instead of Biggs but whoever made the decisions felt he was too young and he also had an amature loss to Biggs. Perhaps Mike took it too personal.