Heorl Graham's best performances?

He was very, very good against Kalule. Kalule may have been past his prime. But he had beaten Kalambay in Italy, KOéd price in 1 (before Graham did it as well) and he was world-class when Graham took him apart. I saw the fight and was very impressed. He was really good against Kaylor - but kaylor was not world-class.

 

The fight was on Radio live and then Sportsnight, so it was not Reg.

 

Harry Carpenter "did" Sportsnight.

 

I think it might have been their second fight where i have a version with Gutteridge doing commentary on his own.Incidentally he didn't have any issue with the decision, other than the dodgy point deduction late on.

Not sure Kalule was world class anymore when he fought Graham, other than as a defensive fighter.he literally threw about 5 powershots the whole fight and was slow as treacle, though i agree Graham looked as good as he ever did.The extremely fast paced kalambay fight seemed to finish off whatever h kalulehad left after a long amatuer and pro career.The turnaround between both those fights was like Conteh's fights with Saad muhammed.

 

yeah pretty sure it was carpenter then.I often get the two of them mixed up, which will probably be sacrilege to some.

 

I watched the Graham v Douglas fight the other night having dug out some old vids. Was on Sportsnight with 'Arry commentating to save argument. Looks like it was at Wembley or somewhere similar.

Graham's performance was superb against a good quality British operator who would easily be the best MW in UK now IMHO was an excellent amateur and athlete.

Douglas came forward throwing punches and refused to get disheartened so Herol had to be at his best, you can almost see him think his way through the fight as he begins to read Douglas', steps up the power shots knocks him down and stops him.

Shame that Rod suffered career ending injuries from the fight. If I remember right BBC used him on other fights after for a time.

I used to tape all the shows off the telly then so McCauley v Dodie Penalosa to watch at weekend!