Re: The fights my dad always talked about
Originally Posted by
Wright
My dad died this morning at 12.30 am in Sandwell hospital. I got back home at around 3.30 and, just after, classic fights were on tv, with joe frazier and jimmy ellis. It reminded me of my dad because he always used to talk about watching old fights in the sixties and seventies, not live but highlights. Does anyone know what the show was called? He told me about Marciano and Walcott, and told me that the ref gave marciano one more round before he stopped it. I was fascinated by this, but my old man was always prone to exaggeration so I don't know. He also used to talk about the fight between Emille Griffith and I presume Benny Paret, when he said that it was the worst beating he'd seen anybody take. He told me that after one fight with sugar ray robinson, carmen bassilio's mother couldn't recognise her son. This was probably an exaggeration as well, but it was both horrible and magical to a young boy learning about life and boxing. My dad loved fighters rather than boxers. He said Ali and Leonard were brilliant, but insisted that they were on drugs as nobody could possibly move that fast. His favourites were Duran, Hagler and Tyson. I'll miss him.
sorry to here that mate. ..... sounds like a good man, i wish my old man was into boxing, i have to drag his ass kicking and screaming to see fights.
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there my favs to...hagler
duran
tyson.........but i also love watching awsome technical boxers like.....
jones jr
floyd mayweather jr
ali and sugar ray leonard among others........
and to answer ur question...YES marciano got lucky, he was getting severly outboxed by a senoir citizen in walcott. but thats what a great puncher like marciano can do.....lose 3/4 of a fight and take u out with one punch
"To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragety" -Cus D'amato-<br /><br />"I pitty the fool"-clubber lang-<br /><br />"My power is discombobulatingly devastating I could feel is muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm"
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