Sparring Stories

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You'd have taken him, you can knock out anyone you can hit, and he was so hittable.He'd have been cake for you.:good

 

Mc, true what you post above, but don't try to find logic in any thing S
posts. He is a mystery wrapped up in an enigma...

 

Yeah, that's exactly what I meant.

 

https://twitter.com/TonyBellew/status/266935878126034944

:-(

Take your Ward love in elsewhere, its cringey.

 

I have footage of Holy and Tua sparring never really dominates the other - but it's well contested by both neither look out of their league and neither look to take any liberties aswell - would've been a great fight I think - any fight both were in were enjoyable and the only time Tua struggled is when people ran from him

 

Have this on film also and Hearns does give Ali a drubbing - knackered old flabby shot to **** Ali but still unbelievable

 

A bartender/bouncer at a bar I used to go to sparred with Lou Savarese a few times. He was about Lou's size but not a pro fighter. He said Lou went easy on him but still hurt him with every shot.

I thought I was gonna have to fight a pro boxer from Baltimore named Jake The Snake Smith. Smith wasn't much of a pro but a tough guy and a nice guy actually. He was hitting on my girlfriend at the time, I did recognize him, but who he was didn't really bother me at that time, liquid courage maybe? I just stood between him and her and ordered 3 shots. I said, "here, have a drink with me and my girl". Dude, was totally cool. His buddy was all like, "this is Jake The Snake" and I was just like, "yeah I've seen him fight live". Jake talked to us for a while and wondered if he had won the night I had seen him fight, he actually had, which was pretty rare.

 

Elijah Tillery, Oliver McCall, Greg Page, and some others supposedly gave Tyson a hard time in the gym.

I always heard Holyfield beat the crap out of Tua in sparring. I also heard he made Bowe quit. I heard that Holyfield and Tyson had a good scrap until it was stopped.

Ruddock did pretty good vs. Holmes in the 80's, I've seen that.

Norton and Frazier went at it many times with mixed results.

Can someone put up Hearns vs. Ali? I'd like to see that.

 

Hearns vs Ali is on Youtube. Just type in "Muhammad Ali v Tommy Hearns sparring exhibition clip"

 

I did post a very short clip of Young sparring Frazier, taken from Youtube

does anybody have any further information on how this session went????

 

Tillery states he beat up Tyson in sparring, the commentators during the Bowe/Tillery fight mentioned this and said Tillery most likely is full of sh*t.

Not in those words though

 

Curry knocked down Hagler in sparring, so i heard .is this true ?

 

Tua/Holy is on YT. Tua has his way with him, IMHO.

 

Young was an awkward customer indeed, but surely with Fraziers relentnesness and workrate, Young would have had a lot of tough moments?

It would probably be easier outboxing someone like Foreman than it would with a Frazier