Lou Duva

And he certianly didn't have enough legs left to run for 3 minutes ... as noted, that was not his style, he was never a runner.

And God forbid an old man forgetting what he told someone 20 years earlier. If that means someone has poor character, there's a lot of old men headed to hell in a handbasket.

SMH

 

Funny... I watched the Bumphus Mad Dog Hatcher fight today. Duva up tp his typical nonsense during and after the fight's concluding moments.

 

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Dubblechin...hi....did you pick up my question from earlier in the thread..?...thanks..

 

I stand corrected.

 

I'm not slamming Duva's character. Only pointing out that he gave poor advice to a fighter who was ahead and thoroughly spent. Taylor was ****ing blood after the fight and spent several days in the hospital. I am pretty sure Lou watched that fight several times within that 20 year period and was given plenty of criticism for the advice he gave Meldrick, so I doubt the memory was all that diminished.

 

I remember Lou in Ft Worth Tx a few years back He had a guy named Ed Hopson who supposedly had the fastest hands going & was a future champ.
He was due to fight Troy Dorsey but Troy pulled out injured & they brought in a tough Mexican guy named Angel Aldama. Hopson wanted to look spectacular as Troy was rigside & tried to Ko Aldama. He couldn't & the longer it went the more frustrated Hopson got. He threw low blows , headbutts & every dirty trick in the book. Eventually the latest butt opened a huge cut over Aldama's eye & the bout had to be stopped. Roger Bloodworth was singing Hopson's praises & took offense when I said Hopson should have been DQ'd & would never make a champion. Roger was about to start on me when Lou Yelled " Stop it Roger the man's right" great character Lou
hope he is still still enjoying good health

 

Snowell did a good job with Randall. You could see Randall was in excellent shape for that fight. And Snowell did a good balancing act in the corner during the fight of encouraging Randall, remaining calm, and giving good instructions. That fight was so inspirational to me that I wrote an impassioned letter to KO, which they published in their "fans speak out" section or whatever they called it. I believe it was the June 1994 issue with Humberto Gonzalez on the cover. I remember the letter published under mine was a letter by Teddy Brenner so I felt like I had written a good piece if they picked it for publication. I wrote maybe a dozen of those to KO or one of its sister publications and the only other one they published was in 1985 when I was 16 yrs old. It was regarding the lightweight comeback of Cornelius Boza-Edwards.

 

There are some fantastic insights into how Lou Duva truly was in Vinny Pazienza's "Fight or Die" book. I think the book is a terrific read and it provides an eye-opening glimpse not only into Pazienza's (that's how I remember him - the full name) career, life and times during a smoldering personal era, it provides the reader with an off-camera look at the business nature and true persona of Duva as well as a few others boxing names.