Herol Graham "Glass Chinned"

Charles Brewer

 

He fell apart against Grant, just completely unravelled. Well past his best by then. Against Brewer he was doing so well, had him down twice and in front. But the old reflexes were a bit older then and he crumbled on the ropes IIRC. Kalambay 1 was his first fight after a split from Ingle and he boxed aggressively on the front foot. Back page had a picture of him slumped on the ropes , headline said "bombed". Against McCallum he lost a point for spinning rather than throwing, if memory serves me. But he gave the body snatcher fits like no other till that point in his career, it could have gone either way. I never considered him chinny . People often had questions because it was so rarely tested.

 

It isn't china, but not granite either. What I mean is it itsn't disgraceful that he got KTFO by Jackson. Jackson could KO almost every fighter with that right hand.

 

He got caught clean by a huge bomb from Julian Jackson, that shot would have decked nearly every middleweight it landed on. He also got knocked out by a big punching Charles Brewer very late in his career.

He fought good fighters, perhaps at the wrong time and he had a little bit of bad luck. If only one of these factors had changed then he would surely have been a world champion.

 

That punch would've felled a horse. Even a tank would have been intimidated by Jackson.

 

No you're wrong. He fought in a great era at the right time. To have boxed the fighters of that generation when it really meant something surely carries more weight than challenging for the various world titles nowadays

 

I've seen you quite a few say he had a glass chin on here.

 

He didnt have a glass chin. Julian Jackson had freakish power.

 

I remember this, but he got offered a rematch but chose to moan about it forever and try to get court to overturn it. then retired , he should have gone straight back in if he was that confident he beat him, 10 rounds to 2, he should also know that these things happen in boxing and always will

 

Won't say his chin was weak or particularly great either.

 

I did enjoy that small indian summer of herol's, five years on from looking shot to **** vs frank grant, getting sparked in the first week back the in gym, no one wanting to train him as they feared for his health. He had the fight back with terry ford and he looked pretty rubbish according to the few that turned up that tuesday night. The night he went in with Chris Johnson he was a 7/2 shot yet he brutalised the Canadian and that along with Pazmanian Devil fight six moths later were great nights for me.

 

Graham will always be a british fighter that you can have a great debate about for the Jackson fight he hit like a train no shame there.

It for me was more about Grahams actual fighting style 'the reflex defence' tells it's own story on his best night's absolutely schooled opponent's the harder they tried the worse he made them look & picking them off.It's why he was so avoided in his prime.

Sadly the higher you go & esp world level the more imo it becomes a real roll of the dice style like the opposite when we critic fighters that overcommit to attack if that makes sense...high risk.Laing was the same got a couple of bad ko defeats as the reactions slowed & the style hands down,open etc Graham wasn't glass jawed at all for me.

 

I forget how explosive Jackson was, no shame in being flattened by him. That punch ungloved might've killed someone!

 

You are right he did moan, he had plenty of reason too. But like you suggest there came a point where he had two options 1) Use the sympathy gained in the first fight to make more money in the rematch or 2) Retire and keep a dignified silence, letting others reminisce about what could of been. Retiring and still moaning lost him a lot of sympathy and bemoaning what could of been, does not pay the bills...