Duane Bobick

[Jaybird]

I have an excellent copy of Bobick getting KO'd in 1 by Big John Tate

[Datsue]

I have an excellent copy of Bobick getting KO'd in 1 by Big John Tate

Communist!

[Brutu]

Here is a link to a photograph of Duane Bobick beating up on a real-life Communist(in the ring of course).

http://cgi.ebay.com/1972-Juriy-Nesterov ... 0578186970

[Datsue]

[Brutu]

Check out this article from the July.6.2011 issue of Doghouseboxing.
"The Dreams of Wonderful Years"
by Ken Hissner.

http://www.doghouseboxing.com/Ken/Hissner070611.htm

[Brutu]

Forty years ago,May 1971,Duane Bobick won the National AAU boxing heavyweight title.
Here is one of the earliest(earliest?)newspapers article written up about him that appeared in newspapers across the country.
The Miami News July.13.1971.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Fc ... ,843384&dq

[Brutu]

Going into this fight for the winner of the 1972 preliminary Olympic Trials.
Duane Bobick's record was 90-9(won the last 58)
and Nick Wells record was 70-12.
They had fought each other three times before with Bobick winning all three bouts.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MF ... 1057641&dq

and

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8q ... 2179988&dq

[Brutu]

Here is a link to an interesting article from the August.23.1971 issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED.
After Bobick had just won the Pan-American Games.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/ ... /index.htm

[Giancarlo]

Here is a link to an interesting article from the August.23.1971 issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED.
After Bobick had just won the Pan-American Games.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/ ... /index.htm

Good read. Cheers.

[Brutu]

Here is another article from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED about Duane Bobick that appeared in the July.31.1972 issue.
It was written shortly after Bobick won the preliminary Olympic Boxing trials at Fort Worth Texas.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/ ... /index.htm

[JMac]

From about '02 or '03 till around '07, Duane was coming to the US amateur Championships and national Golden Gloves as a referee and judge. He's a very nice person. His one arm was permanently injured in a farming accident. I think it got caught in a combine or something. He has slowed down and we (head officials) had to tell him that he had to stop ref'ing as he was starting to mess up. I think all the years of boxing was starting to take its toll on his brain.
In '06 I was in Baku, Azerbaijan for the boxing World Cup. At the banquet afterwards, I was sitting across from Teofilo Stevenson. He speaks decent English and we were talking. I was saying how he and Ali would have been a great fight, etc. He told me some stories about the two of them being together. I then told him about Bobick and that I see him once or twice a year as a ref at national tournaments. Stevenson said nice things about Duane and gave me his card and asked me to have Duane contact him because he would like to talk to him again. I sent Duane an email with the contact info for Stevenson but I don't know if they ever made contact. Stevenson was a VP with the Cuban boxing Federation. His card was a boxing federation card and if Duane contacted him, who knows if he received it. Many years ago Stevenson had an accident while driving drunk and the other person died. He had some high level boxing person sitting next to him at the banquet keeping an eye on him. At these banquets, there is usually a lot of booze especially in former Soviet countries there are many toast with shots of vodka. The guy next to Stevenson let him have two shots but when he went for the 3rd, the guy put his hand over the glass and gave him a look that said no mas. Both Stevenson and Savon are two really tall guys.

[Brutu]

Here is a link to an action photo of Duane Bobick defeating Larry "Wayne"Holmes
at the Olympic Trials at West Point New York,August.5.1972.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SR ... ,255290&dq

[Brutu]

...39 years ago today.
Saturday.August-5-1972
ABC's WILD WORLD OF SPORTS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnLeFFAFCW0

[Brutu]

Here is Duane Bobick's own post-analysis of the bout.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LM ... ,832084&dq

[Brutu]

Saturday.August-5-1972
ABC's WILD WORLD OF SPORTS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnLeFFAFCW0o

I was watching this thinking that Duane Bobick was older then Larry Holmes,
but actually its Holmes who is 10 months older then Bobick.

Larry Holmes DOB November.3.1949
Duane Bobick DOB August.24.1950
Bobick ht 6 ft 3 inches,wt 205 lbs(1972)
Holmes ht 6 ft 3 inches,wt ?(1972)

[Brutu]

Dang!,im pretty sure that someone had posted last month on youtube all three rounds of the Teofilio Stevenson-Duane Bobick
quarter-finals bout at the 1972 Olympics in Munich Germany.
But those ba*stards at the International Olympic Commitie had it removed for copyright infrindgement.
The first round was even.
Bobick actually won the second round.
Then as Archie Moore use to say,
"The fit hit the shan" in the third round for Bobick.
just before the fight Howard Cossell was complaing that Teofilio Stevenson
had it too easy reaching the quarter-finals.In the first fight he had knocked down a fighter from Poland(Ludwik Denderys),
in the first 30 seconds of the first round,and fight was stopped due to a cut),
while Bobick had previously fought three hard rounds with the Russian Yuri Nesterov(who some had favored to win the gold),
and also had injured an era around his eye in doing it.
Anyway Bobick never even got a medal.
(the deck appeared to be stacked so that a "comrade"would win,if you know what I mean and I think you do)
Stevenson won the gold.
Ion Alexe the silver
and there was a tie for the bronze,
Hass Thomsen of Sweden and Peter Hussing(FRG).

If anyone comes across all three rounds of Stevenson -Bobick again,please post the link at this thread.

[Brutu]

Does anyone know of the autobiography of Duane Bobick that was already(almost) finished
prior to Bobick going to the 1972 Olympics?
The first I have ever heard of any such autobiography.
Sounds like it still may be a mansucript somewhere in the drawer of a publisher.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/20 ... -stevenson

[HomicideHenry]

Also..

why did SNL show the Norton KO over and over again ?
How was that funny ?

Because Bobick was being declared the "great white hope" and his loss to Norton was turned into a political joke that white heavyweights can't fight, etc. Liberal American bias altogether. Don't forget at the time they also did crude, disgusting Christmas Carols of the whole execution of Gary Gilmore too. So yeah, SNL has and always will be left wing and often times disturbing.

[HomicideHenry]

I have a sketchy copy of his ams bout with Holmes. It was actually a DQ. Holmes was down fairly hard in the first.

- Duane robbed of a KO. He knocked all the fight out of Holmes, he quit. Shut up Ali too who had been bigging up Holmes to Cosell before the KO. Never ever seen Ali clam up like that, funny stuff.

Never went near Duane as a pro either.

Yes, Bobick sure had Ali quaking in his boots . . .

Laugh all you want to, but there is truth in the logic. Ali, rather than face Norton a fourth time or take on Bobick, chose to fight Leon Spinks instead. Ali at that stage in the game would have out right lost to both Norton and Bobick had the fights taken place, as well as Gerrie Coetzee who was ranked #1 by the WBA in late 1978-1979. Bobick was very strong, very big, and had skills. He lacked speed, but 90% of the division fell to his hands anyways. I would argue overall he was possibly superior in terms of all around ability than Gerro Cooney, just also lacked a chin. That and Bobick following the loss to Norton fell into a world of excess and alcoholism, losing to Tate and Chaplin before finally hanging it up. I don't necessarily agree with Bobick, but he claimed Norton hit him to the throat in their fight; its hard to tell since the film is grainy, but it looks like Norton landed square on the chin and the punch went under and may of hit Bobick in the throat.

[Brutu]

someone should scan and post this photo at boxrec.
I thought it was Andre the Giant at first.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BS-PHOTO-bik-65 ... em51a4b024

[Brutu]

It was a worser day for some other Olympians at the village.
The didnt even acknoweledge that terrororistic event in London this year
that has been the subject of a number of documenteries the past 40 years.
I guess they(Olympic Commitie) just didnt want to offend past,present or future terrorists.

[Brutu]

Here is a link to a rare wire-photo of Duane Bobick knocking out LeRoy Jones at the Olympic Trials
Fort Worth Texas July-21-1972.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/BS-PHOTO-Duane- ... 51a5634500

Im fairly certain that ABC WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS had broadcast live the finals of the Olympic Boxing Trials
from Fort Worth Texas July-22-1972,where Duane Bobick fought Nick Wells winner to go to the Olympics in Munich Germany.

[Brutu]

Were any of Duane Bobbick's first 25 professional bouts with Bill Daniels either televised or filmed?
Many of Ron Lyle's fights when he was with Bill Daniels were filmed by someone with a 16 mm camera

[Brutu]

LIFE magazine August-18-1972.


http://www.books.google.com/books?id=O1 ... pg=PA40&dq

[Brutu]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_at_ ... r_Olympics