One of the most remarkable fights the UK ever saw. It also had bizarre coverage. The fight wasn't shown live but broadcast the evening after on the Sunday, but when the fight finished on the Saturday there was a newsflash type report on the BBC with Harry Carpenter giving the result along with a com...

Back on topic and it's good to see Bruce Seldon way out in front and it's well deserved Beat an over the hill Tony Tucker who was also suffering from drug problems then beat Joe Hipp who was totally obscure then lost a unification bout to Mike Tyson where he threw himself to the canvas twice pretend...

This one sounds crazy but I guess that's the point of this thread ? How about Tyson vs Bruno II ? I thought Tyson was over the hill. Three years in the big house followed by a couple of warm up fights against very mediocre opposition against Frank Bruno who confounded everyone by not only becoming w...

Was Steve Robinson the ultimate overachiever or just a late starter? I'd suggest he was an overchiever I remember the early 1990s when the rot really set in to boxing when we had something called "The WBO Belt" which in my opinion was probably somewhere around the European level of title ...

Depends by what you mean by "ugliest" ? If we're talking being genuinely bored to death to the point it was the audience needing the smelling salts Nelson vs De Leon is an obvious contender If we're talking don't bother paying someone because they're not trying and are bringing the sport i...

Probably not the first live fight I saw but the first one I can name is the Jim Watt vs Charlie Nash fight broadcast one Friday night in March 1980

As someone who was a teenager in the 1980s boxing - in fact much of the present world - is alien to me. I won't descend in to a reactionary nostalgia fest by mentioning favourite fights that were all broadcast on a Saturday or a midweek slot but I think the rot really set in during the 1990s when we...

How much do boxers make with Sporting Clubs compared to journeymen who are at a British title standard ? I do remember when Ken Buchanan was fighting in Britain he was signed to a sporting club. We;ve still got one in Glasgow https://www.standrewssportingclub.com/ though as a spectator sat at home w...

Buck Smith The Buck Smith who beat old Kirkland Laing? Just out of curiousity what would have been more beneficial to someone like Buck Smith. Fighting and - occasionally losing - to someone at least people have heard of or "boxers" who make their debut against the boxer in question and n...

Maybe the Moorer was a voluntary, but why was he ranked? I;m making a guess that all the top heavyweights in the 1990s wanted to avoid each other unless the money was obscenely good hence you get someone like Bean getting a proper title shot and by that I mean the WBO wasn't really recognised. You ...

And the winner is.................. https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/4777 Take away the losses and look what you got. How he ever got title shots is beyond me. Hmmm. I suppose Moorer and his management team thought he had a good record on paper of 27-0 but not someone who was genuinely going to slaugh...

Bruno’s rematch with Tyson. I honestly thought he would do better, thought the lay off would’ve affected Tyson and Bruno was a lot bigger than previously and assumed he’d be more up for it. Quite the opposite, he look petrified As someone who has just registered I thought i'd lose all credibility s...

Snooker has now become very suspect with more than a few Chinese players being suspended and investigated for match fixing Perhaps the biggest scandal was John Higgins and his manager at the time being caught on camera confessing "Give us a load of money and we'll take a dive guv" The obsc...

This thread is why the world needed something like Boxrec where laymen like me can research the records of boxers who might have breath taking records but when you scratch beneath the surface you see something differently Sean O'Grady had an absolutely outstanding record when he fought Jim Watt. He'...

Great thread I'm going back a couple of decades but do remember that Dennis Andries the WBC light heavyweight champ fought the challenger Tommy Hearns and it was The Sunday People who reported that Andries got paid a grand total of £290,000 for defending his title in Hearns home patch . The bad news...