Sparring sessions you would love to see footage of

Julio Cesar Chavez vs Shane Mosley

 

Joe Frazier vs Larry Holmes

 

Floyd Mayweather vs Paul Spadafora

 

Allegedly Spadafora got the better of Floyd

 

It is, or was, on YouTube in full. He definitely did. Floyd was not in fighting shape from what I recall. I think it was at the beginning of training camp or something.

 

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Rod Douglas was a great talent, looked to have beaten world #1 Shawn O'Sullivan in quarters of LA Olympics (O'Sullivan looked to have beaten Frank Tate in final), took Nigel Benn's amateur '0' and was looking a real real prospect under Duff before being thrown in far too soon with Herol Graham (suffering brain inj).


He beat the **** out of Eubank in June 1987 at the Henry Cooper Gym.....
(Douglas in white, Eubank in ripped rags)

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Bulldog, I remember reading Boxing News prior to Douglas' fight with Graham. It was their pre-fight dissertation on how the fight will break down and their prediction. It was always very good and detailed if you recall. Anyways, this pre-fight piece really lauded Douglas' mgr. Mickey Duff and as the piece read, his ability to know precisely when a fighter was ready to be moved and a fighter ready to be taken. Again, they just lauded his innate ability to know when to match them and they were going along with it and predicting a Douglas win. Of course we all know how wrong that was. Whether everyone was believing Rod's press clippings or just underestimated how much Graham still had in the gas tank, I don't know. But I will say too much too soon. Even then I thought Douglas could do with a bit more seasoning. But of course, hindsight. What was the feel in the UK on this match?

 

Many idiots felt Graham was there for the taking after a supposedly poor showing against McCallum. How laughable is that? It was like imperviousness to McCallum's greatness and mastery, we obviously hadn't seen enough of McCallum here but I'd lived in Boston when he beat Mannion and McCrory and saw Kalule and Jackson on his record, also knowing how sharp Curry was pre and post Honeyghan. I knew McCallum was as good as they come and saw Graham actually PLAY WITH HIM early doors (!!), so there was no way a 13-fight novice in Rod was anywhere near that level. McCallum was not Johnny Melfah!

 

Plus Douglas had the Benn factor, unbeaten banger blowing import journeymen over regularly on BBC1 and looking like Clubber Lang. It was an illusion.

I believe only Eubank picked Graham, saying the slugger won't beat the master craftsman, even suggesting Douglas shouldn't be in the same ring. Benn, Watson, Melfah, Kid Milo, Slugger O'Toole and Errol Christie all went for Douglas, strangely.

 

Thank you

 

Never heard this one!!

 

Liston v Foreman
Liston v Charles
Baker v Williams
Wlad v Wilder
And now that I know Dempsey v Galento
Ali v Holmes

 

Can someone verify if Marciano actually sparred Hurricane Jackson and Nino Valdez?
Read he hit Jackson so bad to the body he puked and beat up Nino pretty bad would like to add those to list if true

 

Heard Hector didn't handle the situation too well, according to Emmanuel Steward.