no tyson is dumb his iq is about the same as retarded mesquito in heat any man that says ''i take my hands off to him'' is a fvckin idiot That's not the impression I have. Yeah, but you also think that Andrew Golota's one of the top 80 heavyweights of all time. Admit it. You have a soft spot for re...

If its the Billy Kight from England,black fella who fought in the 1970,s I onece sold him a trench coat in the strand London in 1975 ,seemed a quiet sort of bloke. As i remember a good amateur who didnt quiet make it as a pro.

Lost one over 10 rounds the other he was ko'd in the 1st.

Bruno would absolutely massacre Quarless, assuming Quarless didnt get knocked out by Brunos first jab. Icing a shot Gardner and Eklund does not make you Tyson or Bonecrusher in the power stakes. The guy couldnt even budge John Tate, who was completely shot & morbidly obese and waddled after him...

I dont know about Sims Frank Bruno´s book Eye of the Tiger has some pretty wild stories about Sims. Care to share them, as that book is long deleted... His most recent book, fightingback, touched on Sims and his power, but didn't go too indepth. Sounds like Bruno really liked him though. Ive heard ...

YES ! YES ! ALL THAT BUT RICHARD DUNNE BEAT HIM!!!! :o :o :o . The most insane result on any boxing record, EVER! I guarantee you there will be extenuating circumstances to that loss. (not a guarantee) Ali was shaking Dunne with jabs! :-? ,I have read Shavers was scared to walk the streets of Phili...

sbarone wrote:yes he was my uncle

yep! you should be proud ,a top bloke

Nick Barone was a good light heavy ,with plenty of guts ,Decagon has summed up his career fairly well .Nicks last fight was in England aginst Don Cockell ,the British champion,Nick got stopped in 6 rounds. I have read various pieces on him and they always state his determination and courage ,is he a...

YEP! HIS CHIN WAS CHINA ,his last fight was against Lennox Lewis . Remember that "Barking noise " it was as if every punch had everything behind it, but as I said the speed of that punch and the power stays in the memory even after 24 or so years.

Never disliked anyone like i did Hamad,not only for his arrogance but the typical British way he was bummed up to be better than he was.Eubanks in comparison ,i always felt was playing the bad guy with his tongue in cheek.

Noel Quarless .Would literaly go over from the first clean shot some fights ,others lhe looked a dangerous fast puncher. Seeing talk of Jeff Merritt on a other thread ,got me to thinking of Quarless.I remember the first time I see him on tv against Anders Ecklund ,Quarless came out very fast and sta...

I dont know about Sims, but as far as Candy Slim and Tiger Williams, an element of their mystique is the write ups they got nearly 10 years ago in the Larry Holmes book, they seem larger than life characters, whacky super villains too cartoonishly crazy to surely be real people.... Candy Slim, boun...

That was before Tony went with Sam Burns (a real old time manager) ,Sibson had tough fights early in his career ,I believe he fought Roy Gumbs in his 8th fight ,also a decent West Indian bloke called Eddie Smith (i think) who beat him but Sibbo done him in the return.He also stopped a American guy c...

Hamsho was very tough but not a great boxer ,i would bet on Sibbo to land one of his left hooks at some stage and control the action with his superior hand speed and boxing skills ,Always thought Minter was robbed against Hamsho to be honest

Yes! it has to be said Sibbo liked his food and although he never retired officially ,he was inactive after the Hagler fight for some time ,he also had a problem with a elbow injury which kept him out.As for the Andries fight ,Sibbo was a small middleweight ,as there was no Super middleweight divisi...

He was very popular in the midlands, where he came from. He was a very down to earth sort, a bit like Hatton in a way, and that plus his blast em out ringstyle made him a real crowd pleaser. That left hook could flatten a wall - no-one knocked out Alan Minter, who had a granite chin, but Sibson abs...

Lets be realistic ,im not for 1 second putting Tony Sibson in the same class as Ezzard Charles ,but having attended most of his fights and hearing what various opponents of the time said of Sibson,some of the posts in this thread are laughable. With hindsight its obvious the likes of John Collins wa...

Sibson was a very good fighter ,who as others have stated beat Minter (former world champ) ,Davidson (no 1 contender) and several other world rated fighters of the time (John Collins ,Mark Kaylor ,Louis Acaries ,Matteo Salvemini ,Roy Gumbs ) . Marvin Hagler was quotedf as saying Sibson hit him as ha...

Sibson higher!

Heres a post by Bennie from a few years back 2002! Yeah, nice shots of Pipino. I hope he's in the top 100 punchers (which I haven't had a good look at as yet). He could do nothing but bang. He must have been the only guy in the history of boxing to win a world title without being able to jab. What a...

My memory was playing tricks on me! He actually beat Banjo over 12 rounds at Alexander Palace the fight at Wembley he lost over 10 rounds.He also easilly beat the vastly overated Glen Mccory of Sky tv fame. Untill I saw this thread I hadnt even thought of him,funny really because his fights seemed t...

I take it you mean Hughroy Trevor Currie ,see him fight several times in the mid 1980,s was basically a journeyman type with reasonable power (a bit like Julius Francis) who had a short period where allegedly was trying to promote him as a possible Frank Bruno opponent. He beat the notorius spoiler ...

granberry, but wasn't that the time when ALL fighters left it all in the ring? When every champion was great? When every fighter was in perfect condition. LOL these guys see the past through rose colored glasses. Can you imagine what these guys would say about a current champion who lost to an 8 fi...

Name the greatest brawls that you ever seen 8) for my money, one of my all time favorite brawls is... most of Tony Galento's filmed fights :TU: Galento vs Louis, Galento vs Nova, Galento vs Max Baer & Buddy Baer awesome in their brutality...though humorous in places, when Galento would have to ...

Top Class mate!