He reminds me of this guy...anyone remember him?
He appeared on the David Letterman show talking about he was "gunna mop up the HW div 'cuz he had never been KO'd in bare knuckle fights in Europe"
He was scheduled for “Super Fights,” a 16-man, one-day heavyweight tournament that took place Dec. 3, 1995, at Casino Magic in Bay St. Louis, Miss.
The announced 16-man field for Wallden’s grand adventure was a mishmash of has-beens, might-have-beens and never-weres: Tony Tubbs, Michael Dokes, Tyrell Biggs, Bonecrusher Smith, Henry Tillman, Francesco Damiani, Bert Cooper, King Ipitan, Yevgeni Sudakov, Jose Ribalta, Johnny DuPlooy, Derek Williams, Craig Peterson, Daniel Dancuta and,
perhaps most interestingly, someone named Joe Savage, who was billed as the “British bare-knuckle champion” and allegedly the winner of 41 straight fights, all by knockout.
He never made that fight because he met a fellow (who was then 31-13) for a little "tune-up" fight! Good manager! LMAO!
The English guy was a big B****** maybe 6'5" and 260. Bald,looked tough.
I saw his debut fight in Nanaimao against "Smokin" Bert Cooper.
Before the fight I asked Savage if he knew anything about Cooper,who had DESTROYED Canadian olympic medalist and HW hopeful Willie DeWitt (a kinda Tommy Morrison fighter) and had given Evander Holyfield all he could handle.
The big dumb English twit said to me in his thick Cockney accent "eez yust anodderr bloke,"
"what do I needz to know? eez gute two ands doent ee? an ed?
eez giot an art same az me! (translated.. he's just another bloke,he's got 2 hands doesn't he? a head?,a heart same as me.) I turned to my buddy Barry Sadler (current manager of the Biggest Mercedez dealership hear abouts) and laughed and said "$100 bucks says he doesn't make it out of round one!"
Before the fight started the English twit was doing standing leaps to warm up. Man he could jump about 3 feet strait up! It was weird.
He came out in a peek-a-boo crouch and Cooper threw a little warm up jab. IT rocked the English guy! Cooper stopped and put his arms down looking at the guy in disbelief. He then got a huge smile on his face and began stalking him...maybe 10 seconds POW! perfect left hook right on the side of the melon!! The guys arms fell to his side and he went down like a tree falling! TIMBER! landed flush flat on his face with his arms straight by his side!! IT WAS F#CKIN HILARIOUS!
Cooper went on to finish his career at 36-22 and held the WBF heavyweight title. The English "bloke" ?
Back on a plane to jolly 'ol England never to be heard from again
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