ALI, '4' The Easy Way!

:yep

 

Yep. And lets face it, less of a physical toll and a loss easier to explain/absorb. Afterall even a loss would just been a decision to Jimmy. It would've been a half a step down the ladder is all. And you know Young signs the contract for the fight so it would not have been something hard to put together.

Boxing is a funny sport sometimes w/ managerial decisions that can be second guessed. To me, it was a scenario in a monopoly game; put hotels on Mediterranean and Baltic and sit back thinking I've got the game won now.

 

...and to think, the pre-fight headline below didn't even concern one of the 'Easy 4'...That's how good Bugner was rated by the press before the 75 title defence.

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atsch
Are you telling me that Bugner couldn't take a punch? tell that to Ali, Frazier, Shavers, Bonecrusher and wepner?

Anyways, Bugner would have beaten Bobick, and definitely rates way higher then him. Young would have decisioned both.

 

i think you probably know the answer.joe bugner was a huge let down.i really thought he was going to beat middleton, but know he was a let down again.i still think he'd have beaten bobick though.
probably joes best fight was his losing effort against smokin' joe.after being knocked down he forget the cautious joe bit and really fought well against frazier.a gallant go.

 

the one thing he had in common with ali is that when he fought smaller opponets ie, joe billy frazier, he liked to push their heads down in clinches and lean on them.no wonder joe had a bad back

 

Yeah like the great Hugh McIlvanney said "Bugner had the physique of a Greek Statue, only with fewer moves".

 

They may have done mate, I was a bit young at the time but it's a perfect nickname, it was probably 'Lemon' flavour too. I do know that Emile Griffith could tell the flavour of a 'popsicle' just by sitting on one. :hey


There was a show over here called The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. The title character fakes his own death and comes back in various disguises, including a pig farmer. In one episode he's sporting two black eyes and his boss asks him what happened. He answers: "It was the wife sir, she went mad, thought she was Joe Bugner". His boss replies: "When did Joe Bugner ever give anyone two black eyes?". :yep

 

...Chris Arreola? :conf