Thoughts about the weekly series, Boxing From The Forum, early 1970's.

Loved it! That series introduced me to so many west coast fighters including my all-time favorite Armando Muniz. I was very fortunate that a fledgling new station in my town aired both Boxing from the Olympic and Boxing from the Forum. Man, twice a week I was seeing a show rather than waiting weeks upon weeks before Wide World of Sports would show anything. And of course, when they did, you had to sit through an eternity of figure skating from Finland or Badminton from Brussels. Great memories thinking of Muniz, Chacon, Danny Lopez, Rodolfo Gonzalez, Hedgemon Lewis, Ruben Navarro and not to forget Ray 'Windmill' White. Good times.

 

That's right. The Forum cards had Tom Harmon and Mickey Davies at the mic and the Olympic telecasts had Jim Healy. Again, good times.

 

Not sure I ever saw the fights from the Forum. The ones I remember I think were from the Olympic and I loved watching them. They were shown in Seattle on a syndicated basis, delayed a week or a month or two. I remember seeing a lot of Mando Ramos, Indian Red Lopez, Scrapiron Johnson, and Ray Windmill White (in retrospect one of my all-time favorites although I was then pretty serious-minded about my boxing, and I didn't fully appreciate what he was doing!). At the time I was watching, the TV duties were chaired by Dik Engbert with commentary by matchmaker Mickey Davies. The introductions were by the inimitable Jimmy Lennon.