has australian boxing lost its way ? who is to blame?

More good points Tiger.

Boxing's biggest allie in those heady days of the 60's & 70's was of course Ron Casey. With his support, boxing got coverage on World of Sport as well as TV Ringside and other areas on HSV7.

The only person on the box these days with sway like Case had is Eddie Maguire.

Eddie actually spars regularly with Barry Michael, has done for ages, so he at least has a like for the sport. Sadly, he's also extremely TV ratings savy and unlikely to touch TV boxing with a 10 foot pole!

 

Eddie sparring Baz footage would be good enough to give boxing a little lift.

I bet Eddie wouldnt like anyone to see this though; he is savy enough to realise the dangers of his own ratings falling, as a majority of people do seem to perceive that boxing might be meddling with the bad end of town. (no intention here to darken Bazs name here, of course.)

I was thinking from your information, that Boxing clubs joining football clubs could be a good idea......but then I thought, naaaah....not such a good idea with all those footballers taking drugs, raping or disgracing themselves mistreating women, gambling, and getting drunk, not to mention all those debauchery like end of year footy trips.

[Collingwood supporters are fairly good fighters, when they let six of them jump into the ring against one Richmond opponent.....it is easy to see though, that sharing that one, Collingwood-supporter, mouth-guard, isnt enough though......all those missing teeth they have, it is quite disgraceful really, that Eddie hasn't bought them a few more.]

I have this strong belief that boxers are much, much better people and more adjusted than your typical headliner league footballer. I also figure that if some of these overpaid footballers copped an occasional whack to the head, from time to time, that they would gather more equilibrium in this twisted society, and end their arrogant, self-centred, movie-star-like presence.

Having said that about movie stars, what we do need, is to have more boxing movies that emulate Famechon....or Lionel Rose.

And on that note, if some movie producer is out there.....why not make a movie of JOHNNY FAMECHON...his modesty, his brilliant skills, his modesty (did I already mention this before?)....and his difficult days climbing back up from a near-death, horrific accident.....I will gladly play the Ambrose Palmer role....with my similar brushed back hair, good looks and knowledge of the legend, I would be a good fit.........then again, I probably do not want to be a movie star....my head is sitting in its right place at the moment, and too much glamour might see me throwing phones at lower class bell hops in famous hotels....

 

Eddie actually goes alright with the gloves on too Tiger. He used to train karate with Bob Jones years ago and has a solid grounding.

Received Fammo's book as a gift just the other day. It's great reading the text and following diagrams on the same method I've been taught myself.

 

I am not impressed about Bob Jones giving Eddie "some solid grounding" to a boxing competency(through Karate lessons).

I'd stick to sparring Baz if I was Eddie.

(maybe this is where boxing has stepped off the pedestal, allowing unskilled people from other martial art disciplines to try and train boxers.)

 

Like a lot of kids karate was Eddie's starting point in fight training Tiger. Fortunately some kids then gravitate across from karate to boxing - a recent example being Ryan Waters.

Yes, they would have been better off from a boxing point of view starting out with boxing, but many kids don't know what they really want to do until they get started in something else and then decide that boxing's really what they wanted.

Karate would have made Ryan Waters one hard ******* even before he started boxing - not a bad thing.