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Adios Amigo - May We Meet Again, at a boxing function - inducting an old pal or two.

Don Cogswell

I felt from the beginning, along with many others, the fight was non-competitive. Pavlik is a name prizefighter with I suppose some left over fan appeal. I can only guess the promoters intentions,...

Of course Ray did move up to Jr Welter later and was not the same fighter at all. A good deal of that was age and rust. Against the lesser Curry in '83 he would seem to be the favorite.

Great matchmaking, Sage. Two sluggers with little to tell them apart. Make it a non-USA event and it would be a major draw. I followed Urtain closer than Schutte - he could have given Frazier a bad...

Gee, I hadn't even thought of the White Man angle . . .

The Fight: Patterson vs Liston can be found in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (Vintage International Original) [Paperback]

This is great news for Kelly. A fight with Bute is much more promotable, both fighters needing to burnish their tarnished reps.

Thanks, pal. There may be a quote in there we missed.

I had the privilege to stand in for Holman at his induction into the Florida HOF.

A rugged fight with Tim holding an edge in nearly every department. Both have great chins. Oscar has a slight power edge, more than offset by Witherspoon's ring generalship and much better defense....

As I suggested above, regional organizations like Ring 8 and state Hall of Fames should induct locals - that's what they're about. Naming a world's fighter of the decade crossed that line.

Nice to see a rebuttal, albeit from a promoter, to the doom & gloom'ers.

Yes, I have and it was riveting. I would include Mailer and Baldwin in that group as well.

A history of boxing can be drawn from a number of its divisions - the heavies, middleweights, etc. The super-middleweights isn't one of them. It's talent level has always been thin and euro-centric....

The Patterson - Liston - Clay era was one of the richest periods of boxing reaching deep into America's psyche. In the hands of a skillful author it could be riveting.

Does Ring 8 answer to anyone except themselves? If not I suppose they can do whatever they want in rating a 'fighter of the decade'.

Did they get it right?

Hardly.

Ring 8 is a New York...

Do you know if Mexico's number of fighters, trainers, venues, etc. has radically declined in the last few decades?

Maxie would trump anything else for me at this time. Thanks for keeping an eye out!

Ironbar - if you ever come across Maxie Rosenbloom in action, please forward!

not in the UK


British Boxing Is Set For A Golden 2013

By Clive Bernath

With the introduction of two new dedicated boxing channels in the UK in 2012 to rival Sky Sports, Primetime and...

Steve Kim on the one-punch kayo

Just re-watching that stunning knockout of Manny Pacquiao by Juan Manuel Marquez; not only did Pacquiao get a bit greedy but from a technical standpoint, he made a...

If Floyd could have stayed at 175 he would have joined Foster as an all-time great. Fighting Bob at heavy he maintains the string of losses Foster suffered at the higher weight. Patterson by stoppage.

+1 to all of the above.

All of those standouts, including my adopted hometown SF native, the battling bellhop, campaigned in a twilight zone of the MW division. The moving up of Mickey Walker for bigger game left the...

Initially I thought this was a fantasy fight.

Losing Larry to age is a loss for boxing.

Wish it was only a training hiatus in preparation for Mayweather.