did you see george foreman,mike tyson,ali,frazier or any legend in the real life IN

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  1. combatesdeboxeo

    combatesdeboxeo Guest

    did you see george foreman,mike tyson,ali,frazier or any legend in the real life IN THEIR PRIME OR CLOSE? OR EVEN LISTON IN THE 60s?
    The young users like i did not have this luck. I am 26. I would like to know your experience
     
    combatesdeboxeo, Dec 31, 2010
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  2. tommygun711

    tommygun711 The Future Full Member

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    My dad met Ali in the late 70s at an airport.
     
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  3. combatesdeboxeo

    combatesdeboxeo Guest

    wow, he is very lucky, ali was a great man, and very funny.
     
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  4. di tullio

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    My parents were at the Bite Fight. I was at home on the east coast watching the PPV on the black box, though.
     
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  5. combatesdeboxeo

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    the "bite fight" was tyson vs holyfield right?
     
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  6. tommygun711

    tommygun711 The Future Full Member

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    lol they pretended to shadow box eachother Ali is actually bigger then he seems
     
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  7. combatesdeboxeo

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    ali in the late 70s was a big guy really, 6ยด3 and around 224-230 pounds
     
    combatesdeboxeo, Dec 31, 2010
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  8. di tullio

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    Correct. The rematch.
     
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  9. combatesdeboxeo

    combatesdeboxeo Guest

    lol,tyson was a fury in this fight. when the police man(or the security man) told him "calm down" he was even more angry.
    i can imagine that your parents were impacted when they saw it.
     
    combatesdeboxeo, Dec 31, 2010
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  10. di tullio

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    :lol:

    My parents were huge Holyfield fans and they still hate Tyson for biting him. I asked my dad to watch the recent Tyson documentary and he said "No, the man is an animal".
     
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  11. combatesdeboxeo

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    his thighs, his thorax and his neck were not normal. i think that this guy,foreman or liston had 10 times more testosterone above the normal level for a man .:lol:
     
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  12. reznick

    reznick In the 7.2% Full Member

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    One of the most common things people say about him when seeing him in person.

    Says something about heavyweights in general.

    A family member of mine has been good friends with Ali since the year of the berbic fight. He said the same thing, when he first met him, he was surprised from how big Ali was.

    Seeing him in the 60's. That would have been incredible.


    I think Dempsey in his prime is the fighter I would most want to see with my own eyes. Just based off the things I've heard about him from all types of people from back in those days
     
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  13. choklab

    choklab cocoon of horror Full Member

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    I met mike tyson at a sporting dinner a year after he retired. there was 500 people in the hall but sitting down tyson was the biggest man there. Huge head. Tony tucker was slim and slight by comparison sat beside him tony is a tall guy but not impresivly big. I have also met holyfeild before he fought valuev (looks like a trim fit man in clothes but no heavyweight) as well as hagler, leonard, hearns, roberto duran, benn, eubank, steve collins, ricky hatton, henry cooper, herol graham john conteh (funny), froch and frank bruno. I chatted to froch and he is realy sharp. a totaly focused guy, you can sence he is an active fighter.
     
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  14. combatesdeboxeo

    combatesdeboxeo Guest

    "huge head" lol:lol:

    frank bruno? this guy was a monster!! he looked like a Drained bodybuilder.
    yes, holyfield was not a natural hw, he did not have a big structure of bones. tyson was not tall, but he was a big guy . he was a hw.
     
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  15. choklab

    choklab cocoon of horror Full Member

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    Tyson was about 250 when i met him. wide head, big big guy with short legs. Had a nice chat with frank bruno, he knocked out my cousin early in his career and remembered everything about him. first time i met frank was before the tyson fight on a beach i was about 17 and he was filming something, his arms were like my legs! The last time i met him was over diner at a sporting event. he had lost weight after his breakdown and was only about 215, hes about 6'2 tops a big guy but built up when he was over 230. his hands and feet were no bigger than you would expect on a guy that size. frank is a realy sweet, nice guy. very genuine and honest.
     
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