bennie wrote:My overriding memory of the fight is the number of calls we received from fans requesting the result of the fight (in the days when one had to wait for BN on a Friday for the results of overseas fights).
It wasn't so long ago that I used to wait with baited breath on a Friday morning for results from BN.
I was a big fan of Michael Moorer as a light heavy - I convinced myself that he was going to tear through the heavyweight division and become the new major force.
Only the biggest fights got reported on teletext so Boxing News was the only way to get the information on lesser fights. I remember the huge disappointment I felt on a friday morning reading that Moorer had sleep walked through ten rounds with Everett Bigfoot Martin - a fight that came immediately after his ten round struggle with giant Mike White.
From that point on I realised that Moorer was going to fall far short of my expectations.