Boxing dinner for four

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  1. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Let’s say you get to have a nice dinner with any three boxers from history. To take language barrier out of the equation, let’s say through some sort of magic everyone is able to understand everyone else to facilitate conversation. For this exercise, all will be clear of mind with full mental acuity.

    Just to make it interesting, they have to come from different weight divisions (but they can be from any era).

    Who are your three? (I’m going to hold off on naming mine for a bit to think on it.)

    To clarify, you are one of the four — so you plus three boxers.
     
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  2. thistle

    thistle Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Jock McAvoy, Bert Gilroy, Bruce Woodcock and Ginger Sadd...

    and a very Sectioned & Organised Scrapbook (RATINGS, Fight Reports & Title Status Commentaries), laid out on the table. An evening filled with 'insider' information and discussions, from 3 of the 4 who were indeed very humble & gentlemanly, one, McAvoy, a bit of a hot head, though at least some of his feelings & concerns were at least REPORTED!

    I did MISS the opportunity to actually meet with Vince Hawkins and Frank Butler, I just figured they were both deceased.

    on a similar vain, though I was too young (22), to bother at the time, in America, Sacramento to be precise, I missed out on looking up Lloyd Marshall, whose 'insight' would have been equally valuable, for both American & British Boxing Biz.
     
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  3. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Sorry, I probably didn’t spell it out well.

    What I mean is YOU plus THREE boxers to make a foursome.

    Bon appetite!

    (Oh, since you mentioned missed opportunities, I’ll throw in a couple whom I have broken bread with: Mark Breland and Earnie Shavers! Neither were one-on-one, but I was at the same table with them and a few other people … on separate occasions, not both at the same meal. Also once at a mixer with Al Bernstein, who was delightful; just a really wonderful guy who is happy to talk boxing all day with anyone.)
     
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  4. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Mauling Mormon’s Full Member

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    James J Corbett - you can pick the rest but the man as I read it from his book which is meant to be bias (naturally) still reads like Jim is a pompous sociopathic bully lol.
     
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  5. Melankomas

    Melankomas Prime Jeffries would demolish a grizzly in 2 Full Member

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    Jim Corbett

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  6. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    Three of these were of the same weight division.
    Jack Dempsey
    Harry Greb
    Archie Moore
     
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    Mike Cannon Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Jack Johnson
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  8. Dorrian_Grey

    Dorrian_Grey It came to me in a dream Full Member

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    Golovkin seems like a chill dude, Buchanan (of course), and Yuri Arbachakov I guess.
     
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    Ioakeim Tzortzakis Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Roberto Duran
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    Noel857 I Am Duran Full Member

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    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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  12. TheWorstEver(TWE)

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    Harry Greb
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  13. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Make sure to pull out your phone and get some video of Harry!
     
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    KernowWarrior Bob Fitzsimmons much bigger brother. Full Member

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    Bob Fitzsimmons

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    My late Father, not a famous boxer, but hey its my Dinner inviite
     
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    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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