Your earliest boxing memories are-----------

Yeah...I remember hearing my dad say "he (Liston) could do that all night"..they were especially tolerant of Liston's convict past before the first Clay fight because they hated Clay for being such a big mouth..Liston, they thought "kept his mouth shut"..and like most "men's men" would do his talking with his fists...lol, how wrong they were about clay...and Liston.

 

i can still remember my dad saying ali/clay could only run for so long against joe louis before joe caught him.that was in the days when we didn't know how good ali's chin was.

 

lmao.. 514-0 maybe.

I hope to share a few beers with him in the coming weeks D-man. Been in contact with him this year and met up a couple of months ago. His older brother is none other than triple Oz H/W champ Col Wilson.

I'd love to take a tent fight for the sake of taking part in a quickly dying Aussie past time. The showmen are now limited to just a couple and that little piece of Australianism is not going to last forever.

You on facebook?

 

are you tony f

 

You're making the rest of us jealous again Burt ! What a resume,that is ! :good My earliest one was when I was 8 years old,and watching a certain Cassius Clay beat Henry Cooper in their first fight in 1963.

 

:goodyes we're put to shame.ali/clay was a huge personality wasn't he, as big as the beatles

 

He sure was ! He could have joined them

 

he was too handsome

 

Listening to Ali v Frazier on the radio .Getting up at stupid times in the middle of the night to listen to live fights from the States.
Watching Buchanen,Conteh ,John H live on the BBC in black and white

 

Mine was sparring with Joe Louis before his debut fight with Jack Kracken, and bamboozling him with my lightening jab even though I was a toddler

Only teasing Burt, no disrespect intended. your first memories are better than my entire boxing memories combined.

My actual first memory would be my dad taking me to see Jim McDonnel knock out some guy whos name I cant remember at the York Hall in Bethnal Green.
Not exactly a dazzling moment in boxing history, but a great father/son bonding moment.

 

Earliest boxing memory? - well as far as seeing fights - the first fight that really grabbed my attention in a big way was Barry McGuigan's title win against Pedroza

two favourite memories are meeting and having a playfight with Muhammad Ali - and then about a month ago sitting in a bar for about 2 hours chatting away and drinking wine with 89 year old Bronx Bull Jake LaMotta and his stunning fiance

 

Watching the Bobby Chacon, Boza Edwards boxing match, on TV.

 

Thanks for sharing Burt...Always enjoy those stories.I've talked some with JG, and yeah Rocky was a character, and a vicious guy when he wanted to be.

 

:yep