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Charley was an extremely good fighter that was managed very poorly. Fritzie Zivic played him. Anyway, somebody in Ray's entourage at the time would have leaked that story. Where was Charley's trainer at the time. His name was Hiawatha or something like that? I don't know. I'm not buyin, but I'm a hardcore SRR fan.
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War
The story was told to me 20 years ago, and that was the general gist of it. I was not there and of course I did not see it, This is the first time I have ever told this story, I thought I would tell it to you lot.
Believe it or dont, up to you
Respect
Scrap
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Audley was sparked by Williams and Francis pre 2000 Olympics (allegedly)
Bulls***.
Still doubt me? ;)
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scrap, love your storys mate, your insight into boxing is second to none.
riddick bowe sparred with evander holyfield when bowe was 17
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NowI was there for this one.John Davenport asked a cruiser to spar with Lennox Lewis before the Razor Ruddock fight.He obliged,first round was heavy with Lewis I thought trying to take a liberty.The second was one way traffic, the cruiser Beat the shit out of Lewis wobbled him a few times,Lewis was gone.They pulled him out,He was in shock for 30 mins after,and so was everybody else
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lennex " glass house chin " lewis would get knocked out if he hit his totth brush on his chin while trying to sticj it in his mouth
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lennex " glass house chin " lewis would get knocked out if he hit his totth brush on his chin while trying to sticj it in his mouth
:lolhaha:
That lennex and his totth brush, what a double act.... [clcik] ;)
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We gotta guess the cruiser Scrap?
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Thats the day I realised what Lewis big weakness was, the same guy sparred him before Holyfield 1.But got sacked after 2 sessions, and was asked by Lewis,s trainer to take him on the pads and show Lewis some moves good game
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I forgot his name, but...
In sparring, he busted up Rocky Marciano's nose and his corner had to stop the beating before Rocky was KO'd.
I believe they interviewed the boxer and he always wanted to fight The Rock, professionally, but never got his chance. A real puncher, but he wasn't big on the defense.
I like to think that this boxer played the part of Foreman, and Rocky played Fraizer, in another episode of Power vs Brawler.
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Nigel Benn seemed to take pride in knocking the wind out of The Prince. Yes Nigel Benn is a big strong man who gets pround because he knocks the wind out of featheweights, and Nigel is only one ofthe hardest punching Super Middleweights of all time.
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They never sparred, Do you mean the time when Hamed tried to take the piss unsuccesfully.
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Ive been told I can tell you who the cruiser was.Terry Dunstan
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Ive been told I can tell you who the cruiser was.Terry Dunstan
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don't forget though that in sparring you tend to work on your weaknesses a lot to try and sharpen them up. and this is when you are most likely to get done in sparring. so we can't really judge anything from it.
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Didn't Naseem Hamed spar with cruiserweights like Johnny Nelson and 'beat' them up? I remember someone saying that Hamed had supermiddle weight power and looking at his footage, he did have some incredibly evil power.
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I heard Herol Graham was sparring with Howard Eastman. Graham was clowning a bit and holding his hands down by his waist, so Eastman knocked him cold for several minutes. If only he had shown that level of aggressiveness in his big fights.
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Beleive me, it went off big time,they had it off no messing about it was serious stuff going on in that ring, Dunstan at 14/8 could fight
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Last year when Michael Moorer was trying to make a comeback he was ko'd during sparring by some gym rat. Needless to say he went back into retirement.
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Are you guys talking about the same Charley Burley who beat Archie Moore? That guy must of been big as hell compared to SRR.
Here is his record.
http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=9004
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Look at the weights he weighed he was never more than middle and started a small welter.He gave Moore 6lb and Moore then was a Middle.