Jim Watt Vs Sean O'Grady

Yeah, I noticed that about 6 months ago when I was looking at the for some reason. I thought my memory must be playing tricks on me!!!

Maybe Papa O'Gradys influence extends further than we think......

 

papa o'grady made don king look benevolent

 

If he was willing to set up a governing body just so his son could be world champion, theres nothing he would stop at.

 

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much like the american judge only having watt a round up in that excerpt.

 

was it the waa ??

 

Yeah, I know about the boxrec thing and the Americans are behind it and they don't want to know. The November 1980 issue of Boxing News (when it wasn't a comic), containing the fight report, also has the scores as:
Gibbs: 108-104 (Jim Watt)
Baldeyrou: 109-105 (Jim Watt)
Mercante: 104-103 (Jim Watt)
In the report it says how fortunes suddenly took a turn in O'Grady's favour in the ninth round when Watt was badly cut and led to the corner for a doctor's inspection, which he naturally survived. Watt came out hard in the 10th, outjabbing O'Grady, before the infamous head 'clash'.
He continued outjabbing a half-blinded O'Grady up to the stoppage.

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Yep. IIRC O'Grady made his son-in-law the WAA heavyweight champion of the world but stripped him when he divorced O'Gradys daughter!!!

 

Pat O'Grady ruined his son's career. Sean, a good-looking white 'draw', had just won the WBA lightweight title from Hilmer Kenty in a quite brilliant display and was on the verge of making millions in a defence with Boom Boom Mancini. What does Pat do? He refuses to let his son defend against pathetic mandatory challenger Claude Noel of Trinidad (whom Sean would have easily brushed aside to make way for the Mancini superfight) and instead throws him in with murderous-punching Andy Ganigan for his newly created WAA title and gets his son flattened.
Sean was stripped of his WBA title and never the same.

 

Mancini would have mullered O'Grady but, as you say, it would have been a big fight (and big earner) at lightweight.

 

I'm not so sure, Gaz. Ganigan could flatten anyone and take him out of the equation and O'Grady-Mancini is close, brutal and a sure-fire thriller (in my opinion). O'Grady was a natural-born fighter whereas Ray was one of those 'manufactured' fighters.

 

Mancini was pretty much at the top of his game around that time (and gets slightly underated IMHO) whereas if you take Kenty away O'Grady just wasn't winning in the same sort of company that Mancini was.

 

No disagreement, here. One thing is for sure Pat O'Grady denied the boxing world of an early Ward-Gatti.

 

Yeah, certainly no chess match!!