losses you never quite got over

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Originally Posted by IamInuit

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Originally Posted by Master

Grant stopping Herol Graham. I could not talk to anyone for hours as I was so upset.

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I always liked Herol and would have thought the Jackson fight would have been harder to stomach for his big fans. I thought Herol was about to get Julian in trouble and then..........

His fight with the body snatcher is one of my favourites.

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Strangely if you had to lose that would be the best way to lose. Beating your opponent for 3 1/2 rounds on the verge of stopping Jackson and then getting knocked out clean.

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Originally Posted by SlimTrae

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Originally Posted by Beanflicker

Tyson/Lewis was pretty hard too, I was new to boxing and of course loved Tyson like most do, and to see him get KTFO over and over on the sports shows the morning after sucked. I hated Lennox for years for it.

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First PPV I refused an invite to.
Based on who they were feeding to Tyson: McNeely & Mathis, I just couldn't see Tyson beating him, in fact to this day...I have never watched the whole fight.

Hard to not get over a loss, I refused to watch.

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It took me years to watch the fight, I was very new to boxing so I didn't understand that the formerly great Tyson was a lamb being lead to the slaughter against Lennox the same way so many were lead to him in the 80s.

That fight was so big. I remember having to make a collect call from a payphone a few days later and the middle aged female operator asked me if I saw the fight and we had a short conversation about how we couldn't believe Tyson lost hahah, EVERYONE was talking about it.

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Originally Posted by Beanflicker

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Originally Posted by SlimTrae

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Originally Posted by Beanflicker

Tyson/Lewis was pretty hard too, I was new to boxing and of course loved Tyson like most do, and to see him get KTFO over and over on the sports shows the morning after sucked. I hated Lennox for years for it.

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First PPV I refused an invite to.
Based on who they were feeding to Tyson: McNeely & Mathis, I just couldn't see Tyson beating him, in fact to this day...I have never watched the whole fight.

Hard to not get over a loss, I refused to watch.

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It took me years to watch the fight, I was very new to boxing so I didn't understand that the formerly great Tyson was a lamb being lead to the slaughter against Lennox the same way so many were lead to him in the 80s.

That fight was so big. I remember having to make a collect call from a payphone a few days later and the middle aged female operator asked me if I saw the fight and we had a short conversation about how we couldn't believe Tyson lost hahah, EVERYONE was talking about it.

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I knew Tyson would lose, but that did not stop me hoping he would win after a good first round. The rest of the fight was just a beat down.

I guess the one-punch KO loss to Rahman Lewis suffered a year prior gave a lot of people hope that Tyson could land that one home run shot.

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Originally Posted by Beanflicker

I guess the one-punch KO loss to Rahman Lewis suffered a year prior gave a lot of people hope that Tyson could land that one home run shot.

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Press over here were hying the fight but Tyson was smoking spliff in Haiwai whilst in training.

Herol Graham lost to Mike McCallum by a point deducted by the referee after he turned his opponent. That was bad luck. remember that fight because the commentator Harry Carpenter could not commentate during the fight only in-between the rounds as they were on strike. It was unusual experience watching the fight.