Wilder had a fire hydrant in front of him for 11 rounds...the guy punched back and if Wilder hadn't been in top shape he could have been in trouble. I said before he is the closest thing I've seen compared to the heavies of the 70's era.....interesting.

He reminds me of guys that we grew up with in the bars...granite chin, big and hard to knock off their feet. Only diff in them and chuck was chuck trained like boxers do and could fight all night, where those bar room brawlers couldn't last long. We all know em.

Agree and it happened in the first round...after that pac said F this.

who trains Wilder ? he looks like the heavy's of the 70's a little...needs a world class trainer and manager.

Good big man beats good little man usually.

MONEY

Just found out today of his death. December 20th 2013.

How can he go back in time ? He is as good as anybody from 70's boxing with what he has to fight. He's beat everybody they put in front of him. Hearns and Leonard had both lost by this time in their careers.

I rate him right up there with Leonard and Hearns.

one day everbody gets beat (except Marciano and he probably would have)...I just don't think it's time for Jr. to lose to a guy thats taylor made for his style.

Agree with Henry..........ain't no "if's" that matter.

agree

After only a handful of championship rounds he fought Holmes ????? Never could figure that out either. Don't know why his team didn't let him box 8 or 10 more guys and learn a little more. I'll tell ya folks that fight with Holmes was a good one. Gerry did well.

No that would be a short movie....I did go 8 with Gene Wells once.....I may have that on a VHS, I'll look and see,

My ribs still hurt from the shots I took from "Dog". A little weird but a good dude I always thought.

At the time I fought Acaries I was trying to give it up. I was cut when I went over there and after about a minute into it I was bleeding pretty bad. That guy was nothing compared to some of my opponents.

I really thought I would KO Tony Danza. I dreamed about it many times yet when I saw him at the weigh in, he was 2 hours late, I had doubts. He was not the short little guy I thought he was. Probably and inch taller and 12 to 15 pounds heavier than me.Truthfully it sort of psyched me out. It was goi...

I did teach school but not anymore. There was no boxing commission in Florida like there is today. Most shows featured local amateur clubs battling each other followed by the pro's on top. In our town when the commission quit sanctioning amateur/pro cads it killed the sport. You simply couldn't affo...

Best fighter I fought was Gene Wells.

Mecer

Simmie was a character. He was with the Tony Gardner stable and fought over 300 times. I believe he is incarcerated now.He would fight a little bit until he got hit hard and then there's no telling what he might do to excuse himself. I saw him fight Joey Vincent and he actually did a kip from the ca...

I was called by a promoter from Tallahassee to fight Gardner. I accepted the fight of course knowing it wasn't going to end up very well. I did run on the beach every day for a month and got myself in pretty good shape, not boxing shape because we didn't have a gym. As it turned out I may have been ...

The first part of my career should have taken place way after it did. I had no manager and pretty much put myself in the position to fight the Orlando bad boys, one after another. Believe it or not I learned some things from those beatings and actually got better as it went on. I gave a pretty good ...

My best effort was losing to Tony Gardner in a 10 round bout. It was like a Rocky movie. He was pretty much shot around that time or I would have been knocked out. Most of my opponents were from the correctional institution or from the tough guy contests. My trainer was an ex marine and we drank bee...

Yes sir...Dennis staggered John in the first but couldn't do much with him after that.