Archive for August, 2009
Jimmy Young
Monday, August 31st, 2009The 1970’s, the Golden Era of modern heavyweights. The era of Ali and Frazier. Of Foreman, Norton and later Holmes. Of bangers like Ron Lyle, Jerry Quarry and Earnie Shavers. A smooth boxing, counter punching master like Jimmy Young was overshadowed by Ali, Frazier and Foreman. Then later by the Norton and [...]
BOOK REVIEW : “REELIN’ IN THE YEARS” by Theodore “Ted” Sares
Monday, August 31st, 2009Mr. Ted Sares…The “Bull” as we know him has done it again. On the heels of his first boxing literary classic, “Boxing Is My Sanctuary”, out comes his new work “Reelin’ In The Years”.
In this book Ted takes us through the different eras. He paints a vivid picture of our world during those times. [...]
DWIGHT DAVISON
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009From 1977 to 1987, Marvelous Marvin Hagler OWNED the middleweight division. Because of this many fine middleweights of that era have been forgotten. A shame but true. Either they eliminated each other or Marvin eliminated the survivor. He was THAT dominant. Nevertheless many fine middleweights did not have a chance to take advantage of [...]
MUSTAFA HAMSHO ; If Not For Marv …
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 He may have been the second best middleweight in the world in the late
1970’s through the mid 80’s. The ” Hagler Era “. he was twice defeated by
the Marvelous one in title fights but no one other then Hagler could seem
handle him.
Mustafa Hamsho was [...]
Hearns-Duran
Friday, August 21st, 2009 Roberto Duran WAS my idol. When he whipped Leonard in Montreal, well… That goes right up there in the important date column with the birth of my kids and March 8, 1971 when Joe whipped Ali’s ass.
With that said, you can fully understand my disappointment when Roberto said “No Mas” [...]
SANDERLINE WILLIAMS ; He Fought The Best…
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009He lost fifteen of forty professional fights but his record reads like a Who’ Who of the middleweight and super middleweight divisions at that time. Make no mistake about it, Cleveland’s Sanderline Williams was a world class boxer.
Williams turned pro in 1982 and won fourteen of his first fifteen fights. He then suffered consecutive losses [...]
ATTILIO “ROCKY” CASTELLANI
Friday, August 14th, 2009He may have been one of the best middleweights to never hold a title. He was a ranked contender for almost a decade but he received only one title shot. That was fairly late in his fine career. He fought in the days when there only eight weight divisions with ONE champion per division. By [...]
James J. Woody
Thursday, August 13th, 2009 Although he ended his career losing almost as many bouts as he won. At one time in the mid-60’s heavyweight James J. Woody was considered a fine prospect.
He was a southpaw from the Bronx who had his first professional fight in 1964. He reeled off ten straight wins against [...]
DREAM FIGHT ; Arguello -vs- Chavez
Sunday, August 9th, 2009 DREAM FIGHTS…You hear and read about them all the time. How would Ali have done against Dempsey, Louis or Marciano ? How would Roy Jones Jr. have fared against Bobby Foster ? Could Bernard Hopkins hold his own with Marvelous Marv ?
Interesting scenarios and I’m sure we all have [...]