Friday ~ February 10, 1978
~ Duane Bobick ~ 'Disheartened But Not Discouraged In South Africa' ~
Duane Bobick discussing his shocking upset loss {L TKO 3} to unknown South African
Kallie Knoetze.
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I know what the Boxing Press will be saying back in the United States. Duane Bobick has no chin and
got KO'd by some 'no-name' guy in South Africa.
I'm sure they're also writing in the papers, that I can't fight and have no heart. And that I had to go to
the southern tip of Africa to get bouts, so nobody in America would be forced to watch me fight.
But South Africa has a '3' very good Heavyweights > {Kallie Knoetze, Gerrie Coetzee and Mike Schutte}.
These guys know to fight. They're all rough like a 'Wild African Cape Buffalo', and they can all punch
extremely hard.
Look, Muhammad Ali didn't want to come here to fight. And Ken Norton, Ron Lyle, Earnie Shavers and
Stan Ward wouldn't come over here either. They knew it would be a 'high' risk to get into the Ring with
one of these guys.
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