Fighters who were scum

Totentanz. · Jun 20, 2024

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Well over a decade ago, Holmes had a standing invitation on YouTube for everybody to just hang out with him at his office in Easton. My chiropractor has a photograph in his adjustment room of Larry shaking his hand on the streets of Easton when Holmes was Champion. Bitter to the press, he's personable and friendly with regular people who meet him.

Tyson himself is also well liked in person.

The nasty people seem to be Foreman and Holyfield. Reportedly, Evander acts as if he's got perpetual 'roid rage (or is on the rag). George as a person is reported to be a total contrast to his modern public persona as a friendly pitchman. Apparently, the spectators who never cheered for him during the 1970's got it right.

MMH was always a great guy to us countless New Englanders who met and knew him from the 1970's onward. (Marciano, by contrast, had an edge and temper. Once, he whacked a guy with his left when that dude didn't repay a small debt in time, fracturing his jaw, as recounted in Biography of a First Son. Marv was very gentle, and remarkably outgoing. Yes, he was a black champion in a white city, but New Jersey had been hell for he and his family. He was sometimes the only World Champion this sports obsessed region had.)
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As much as Holmes has been very bitter about Tyson and such (Which, I'd likely be bitter too if I had to fight Mike Tyson on a couple weeks notice after I had already retired, though he's pushed it a bit far), he's been remembered well in the eyes of the fans for being really friendly and easy to talk to.

Anubis · Jun 20, 2024

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And on top of that, when Hitler asked him directly about, "What he was going to do", to his Jewish manager, he said that nothing would change directly to his face, and stayed with him throughout Hitler's control over Germany.
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I love the haphazard Nazi salute Joe Jacobs casually gave the Fuehrer with his stogie carelessly held in his outstretched hand, combining two of Adolf's favorite things, Jews and cigars. (Hitler wanted a painting of chivalrous and legendary fighter ace Adolf Galland, the youngest General in the German military at 29. But the painter depicted he of Mickey Mouse on his planes clutching his large trademark cigar he smoked while flying combat missions. It had to be repainted without Dolfo's cigar to please der Reichskanzler.)

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