When Boxing was good!

I hope Frank did n't think that the lady was a tramp !

 

Title fights would always be on Grandstand or World of Sport on Saturday afternoons. Great times.

 

Quarry would have definitely been a title holder,had he come along later. So too might Shavers and Lyle. Jimmy Young,certainly.

 

Even though i wasn't born i'd have to say the 70's with the Likes of Ali, Foreman, Frazier and Norton to name but a few going at it

 

I really find the 70's lacking on film. Outside of Monzon and Duran, it doesn't impress me. The heavies, in particular, as so very overrated it boggles the sensibilities. Nostalgia is a great influence, me thinks.

 

I'd like to go back to the days when boxing shows were commonplace, weekly small hall boxing at affordable prices.
Before the TV era, I guess.

 

remember listening to it on the radio.the fanfare and then "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THIS IS THE MAIN EVENT OF THE EVENING......."
magic

 

Sends a shiver right through you. When Ali was fighting,I used to set my alarm clock for the small hours,and listen to the fights on my radio.

 

i can remember listening to minter fight gratien tonna and dave boy green against palamino

 

Later on,I listened to Hagler-Hearns. it was about 5 a.m. our time,and I got up for work when it was over.

 

thats the only fight i've ever bet on.what a *******

 

What bet did you do, i'm guessing Hearns but by stoppage, points?

 

I actually got the result of that one right ! For once.

 

i wouldn't have mentioned it if i'd lost would i

 

Haha i suppose so, i just thought you might have lost with the ******* at the end of your post