Heavyweight Scrap from 1999: enjoy!

[brocktonblockbust]

How refreshing to see fighters actually FIGHT! We have forgotten over the past 15 years!

[El Kabong]

Ah yes.....the halcyon days of the heavyweight division when Frans Botha and Shannon Briggs were legitimate contenders

[brocktonblockbust]

Botha has a surprisingly rough and dogged style, the guy never gives up, it was awesome how he fought back and came back from that knockdown in the 8th round. Those 2 guys traded bombs all night, with great guts & determination. It is so refreshing to watch guys putting everything out there on the line and fighting their hearts out.

[Beanflicker]

LOL Botha.

He went over to kickboxing and was getting outboxed and knocked out by kick boxers. What a stooge he was.

[brocktonblockbust]

Frans Botha was a legitimate Heavyweight Champion of the World and should not be disrespected.

[El Kabong]

Frans Botha was a legitimate Heavyweight Champion of the World and should not be disrespected.

....and Wladimir Klitschko knocked him out in 2002

[brocktonblockbust]

Frans Botha was a legitimate Heavyweight Champion of the World and should not be disrespected.

....and Wladimir Klitschko knocked him out in 2002

what does that have to do with it?

[El Kabong]

Frans Botha was a legitimate Heavyweight Champion of the World and should not be disrespected.

....and Wladimir Klitschko knocked him out in 2002

what does that have to do with it?

Frans Botha was a legitimate Heavyweight Champion of the World and should not be disrespected.

Oh nothing, I've just never seen you heap such praise on one of Wlad's opponents

[birch]

This fight is been repeated on Premier Sports now. Channel 428 on sky. Talk about coincidence.

[Master]

This fight is been repeated on Premier Sports now. Channel 428 on sky. Talk about coincidence.

You have premiere sports? Why? What boxing do they show new and old?

[brocktonblockbust]

Frans Botha fought very tough against Mike Tyson until the KO. He had no quit in him.