Re: Why did Michael Bentt get to fight The Duke for the world title?
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Master
That may have sounded crazy at the time but who would have thought he would have beaten Holyfield at heavyweight?
Loved the book Dark Trade.
Crazy? He was calling out Lennox Lewis at that time too and saying he'd knock him out. He was super pissed about the purses heavyweights got compared with him. He was bringing his gun to London to shoot Benn and Eubank. Great stuff.
Re: Why did Michael Bentt get to fight The Duke for the world title?
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Fenster
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Originally Posted by
Master
That may have sounded crazy at the time but who would have thought he would have beaten Holyfield at heavyweight?
Loved the book Dark Trade.
Crazy? He was calling out Lennox Lewis at that time too and saying he'd knock him out. He was super pissed about the purses heavyweights got compared with him. He was bringing his gun to London to shoot Benn and Eubank. Great stuff.
Yes that was the Johnathan Ross show eher he nearly made Eubanks cry and upset. Nigel Benn would have loved to have a tear up even if he would have lost.
Re: Why did Michael Bentt get to fight The Duke for the world title?
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Originally Posted by
Master
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Originally Posted by
Fenster
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Originally Posted by
Master
That may have sounded crazy at the time but who would have thought he would have beaten Holyfield at heavyweight?
Loved the book Dark Trade.
Crazy? He was calling out Lennox Lewis at that time too and saying he'd knock him out. He was super pissed about the purses heavyweights got compared with him. He was bringing his gun to London to shoot Benn and Eubank. Great stuff.
Yes that was the Johnathan Ross show eher he nearly made Eubanks cry and upset. Nigel Benn would have loved to have a tear up even if he would have lost.
No it wasn't, it was from the book Dark Trade that you said you read. You're like a goldfish. ;D
Re: Why did Michael Bentt get to fight The Duke for the world title?
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Fenster
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Originally Posted by
Master
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Originally Posted by
Fenster
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Originally Posted by
Master
That may have sounded crazy at the time but who would have thought he would have beaten Holyfield at heavyweight?
Loved the book Dark Trade.
Crazy? He was calling out Lennox Lewis at that time too and saying he'd knock him out. He was super pissed about the purses heavyweights got compared with him. He was bringing his gun to London to shoot Benn and Eubank. Great stuff.
Yes that was the Johnathan Ross show eher he nearly made Eubanks cry and upset. Nigel Benn would have loved to have a tear up even if he would have lost.
No it wasn't, it was from the book Dark Trade that you said you read. You're like a goldfish. ;D
I read a lot of books. You remember that quote from the book but I can remember he made Eubanks nearly cry on the show.
Re: Why did Michael Bentt get to fight The Duke for the world title?
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bradlee180
Morrison actually was a damn good fighter.
Nowadays, people act like he was getting knocked out all the time, but out of 52 fights, he only lost 3.
Of the 3 losses, 1 was to a prime Lennox Lewis, the best of the whole crop of heavies.
The Bennt loss was an anomaly where Morrison simply got caught by a 2nd tier fighter(3rd tier?).
The third loss was to a prime Merciless Ray Mercer, an Olympic Gold Medalist who had 2 very controversial decisions with a prime Holyfield and a prime Lennox Lewis. Both were very close fights.
With over a thousand licensed pro boxers worldwide, Morrison was world-class enough to rate Top 4, but not Top 3 which is the elite (Tyson, Holyfield, Bowe, Lennox).
Morrison also knocked the $#!t out of Razor Ruddock, Carl The Truth Williams, Pinklon Thomas, Joe Hipp, outboxed Big George Foreman(next fight Foreman KO'd Michael Moorer for the undisputed Champioship). They also don't know that Morrison beat the living hell out of Ray Mercer for the 1st 4 rds of that fight. Mercer had about the best chin in Boxing at the time.
He was. But it's easy to forget that part after watching Mercer damn near remove Morrison's face from his head
Re: Why did Michael Bentt get to fight The Duke for the world title?
Read in Boxing Monthly that Ray Mercer knew Tommy was on steroids for their fight when he took his top off at the weigh in. He said he had black spots over his back and someone told him that Tommy would tire after 5 rounds.
