Hey guys, and all the ships at sea, it's Eddie Mustafa time!! Ima gonna knock off a series of Eddie's fight vids, cause I'm in the mood! I hope you are too. This fight was a perfect floow up to Eddie's masterful title winning performance with Marvin Johnson...utterly magnificent performance. This content is protected
Eddie is just so comfortable in there. Very nonchalant like a sparring session. Jerry not the most talented but a big strong guy who man handled James Scott easily. Nice hearing my favorite announcing team ever of Ryan and Clancey. Great Sat/Sun afternoon memories when I was a teen.
I liked Ryan and Clancy...better than any team I've seen on ESPN as a matter of fact. Ryan was excellent....and of course, the salty old Gil Clancy was always worth listening to.
Clancy is the type of man I wish my grandfather was, hahaha. He seemed tremendously funny and witty without trying hard or being over the top, with a plethora of stories and knowledge to draw from and a willingness to really watch and dissect whatever bout was occurring in front of him.
I've always enjoyed reading about the relationship he had with his great star Emile Griffith and the times Emile tried Gil's patience with his mid-fight attention lapses....Gil had to slap him sometimes to get his attention. EG got too distracted by his demanding family and hangers on and it exasperated Clancy no end...he had to get really tough with Griffith from time to time...prompting Emile to say to him,..."you're a mean mahn Mr. Clauncey" in his Virgin Island accent.
That's great. I wonder if Emile begrudgingly knew Clancy was looking out for his own best interest, or if he saw him as an actual negative force or person in his life? How well documented is there relationship, or Clancy's relationships with other fighters for that matter? Any good books that encapsulate that, rc?
This was pretty much the end of Eddie’s prime. He got overconfident, moved up to heavyweight and looking like a potbellied character lost a decision to a terrorfied Renaldo Snipes and then cut too much weight too fast and lost to Spinks. Oddly even though Eddie was young and still prime he drifted out of his career. Very strange that he’d end up a trainer when he was an underachieving head case as a fighter.
