Duane Bobbick, the great white whatever!!

The Saturday after that bout on SNL they kept replaying that ko over and over.....it was a laugh riot.

I remember watching this bout live on prime time tv. I laughed so hard I was crying.

 

It's a shame Bobick's career didn't pan out the way many expected it to. Guy had it all. Stellar amateur career.. joe Frazier as a trainer. Great run as a prospect. Big punch. Huge fan base. Good looks. Everything.. but the sad reality is that he just couldn't take the punishment. With a better chin Dwayne Bobick surely might have gone places.

 

No chin because he had no defense for a right hand. No hwt can take rights like he took full bore and not be koed.

 

Unless maybe you're Tex Cobb, but other than that I agree.

 

Teo Stevenson was a class above everybody when it came to 3 round amateur fights. Stevenson was basically a pro in a political amateur boxing world. Even a Ali-Teo fight was bantered about.

 

That's true Mr M, tex was insane. The stuff that holmes was throwing at him. No wonder cossel was having fits at ring side.

 

My father used to refer to Bobick as "The Human Punching Bag." I remember when he fought Tate and I remember thinking he should never step in the ring again. He did one more time though before retiring. You could see that Tate's strategy was based on having studied the Norton fight. Tate was using the overhand right a lot because it was obvious from the Norton fight that Bobick was completely unable to defend against it.

 

According to Eddie Futch Duane Bobick may have thought he was better than he was. In the dressing room before the fight Eddie could see Norton warming up to a lather via monitor and he warned Bobick that Kenny would be coming out looking to do damage early. Norton may of had extra motivation because Eddie Futch was working with Bobick. Duane Bobick just kept laughing and talking with friends when he should have been getting ready to fight.

 

I disagree with you when you say Bobick was being brought along well. He seemed to be stuck in beating jouneymen for ages then all of a sudden thrown in with Ken Norton who,in May 1977,was probably the toughest proposition around. He should have had his level slowly but surely upped from around 1975/76 onwards. If he'd have passed those tests,only then would he have been proved to be ready for the Alis,Nortons and Youngs etc.

 

I read that Frazier did not want him to take that fight.

 

It wasn't just a weak chin that did him in. As OP stated, he was slow afoot an had a medicore defense.