Facts or Myths related to boxing

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  1. artdawg

    artdawg Grammar butcher beeaTCH Full Member

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    Fact: Gerald McClellan and Thomas Hearns were both from the same boxing stable, Kronk Boxing Gym run by Emanuel Steward. Emanuel Steward had McClellan sparring against Thomas when he was 16 years old. So they both knew each other well. G-man has even said he looked up to the hit man before he was injured. Once Gerald got good to challenge for a title and started knocking people out it surprised Steward who said he wished he had more time to develop Gerald when he was a younger. Emanuel had other fighters like Micheal Moorer who was undefeated who he paid more attention to. Steward now states that Gerald could have been an all time great if he was given more help.
     
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  2. cesare-borgia

    cesare-borgia Übermensch in fieri Full Member

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    Is there any footage of duran going crazy in a post fight or at a press conference especially with leonard, I always read about i yet never have seen it.
     
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  3. brixtonbeat

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    There is footage floating around somewhere on youtube of them sparring and fighting at Kronk. Worth a look if you can find it!
     
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  4. wlad1111

    wlad1111 Active Member Full Member

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    When I was a kid i read this in some magazine. Klitchko's grandpa got pissed at the horse and killed it with one punch. I am not joking that is what magazine said.
     
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  5. DrMo

    DrMo Team GB Full Member

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    :yep This is mentioned in a book I read about him but there are mixed accounts. It was outside Panama & Duran had knocked the home favourite down for the count & this guys wife, who had been screaming all through the fight came storming into the ring. Someone in Duran's corner said that he just pushed her. A U.S journalist said that Duran turned around & starched her with a better shot than the one he landed on her husband! Whatever happened there was a riot, Duran & his guys had to fight their way through the crowd to the dressing room.
     
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  6. El Bujia

    El Bujia Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Where is the controversy here?
     
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  7. artdawg

    artdawg Grammar butcher beeaTCH Full Member

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    That's none.its just a fact.
     
    artdawg, Mar 27, 2011
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  8. El Bujia

    El Bujia Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    So you just felt like stating random facts?
     
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  9. Threetime no1

    Threetime no1 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    :lol::lol::lol:
     
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  10. Threetime no1

    Threetime no1 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I've heard the one about Duran sparking the donkey before. I think i read something about it in Boxing Monthly once.
     
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  11. artdawg

    artdawg Grammar butcher beeaTCH Full Member

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    Bingo! U don't like it??
     
    artdawg, Mar 27, 2011
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  12. ArtOWAR

    ArtOWAR Fartdawg Full Member

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    Great thread mate
     
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  13. dyna

    dyna Boxing Junkie banned

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    Floyd Patterson was knocked down more than any other modern Heavyweight
    champion, 20 times!

    Most first round knockouts in a carrer:
    1.Young Otto (42)
    2. Tiger Jack Fox (30)
    3. Jack Dempsey (26)
    4. Sean O'Grady (24)
    5. Buddy Baer (23)

    3 fighters who made their pro debuts in TITLE BOUTS!
    1. Pete Rademacher 1957
    2. Jack Skelly 1892
    3. Rafael Lovera 1975

    World title holders with the Fewest fights:
    1. Saensak Muangsurin (3)
    1a. Veeraphol Sahaprom (3)
    2. Muangchai Kittikasem (6)
    3. Paul Weir (6)


    Lennox Lewis was asked why he did not sign a contract with Don King after
    won the Olympic Gold medal, his responce "How can you trust a man who can
    talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it?".

    Ali upstaged? Ali was on a plane when a stewardess asked him to fasten
    his seat belt, Ali told the lady "Superman dont need no seat belt". The
    stewardess told the champ "Superman dont need no plane!"


    British fighter Nel Tarleton was known to go the distance in many of
    his fights. He had 12 title fights (British, Europeand and world) which
    went the distance. This is not a extraordinary feat if it wasnt for
    the fact that he only had one lung!

    George Foreman won his first heavyweight title on his birthday.
     
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  14. RJD88

    RJD88 The Icon Full Member

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    :rofl:rofl:rofl
     
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  15. luke

    luke Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Toney vs mclellan is on youtube
     
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