sorry but may i be so bold to ask who added 'controversial stoppage' to the fight david bey tko4 george chaplin?
i have the highlights to the fight on the bey-page preview and theres nothing controversial about it. chaplin got his ass kicked badly by bey.
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Tomato-Can
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I added it when I completed the record. 
I don't know what fight Overhanded Write saw.
I watched the fight & agree with what was written up in Tonight's Boxing Program #449 on page 3.
There's NO doubt in my mind the stoppage was premature. 8)
IMO, it was an outright robbery !
If U take this comment out, then U should take "ALL" comments of controversial out.
I don't know what fight Overhanded Write saw.
I watched the fight & agree with what was written up in Tonight's Boxing Program #449 on page 3.
There's NO doubt in my mind the stoppage was premature. 8)
IMO, it was an outright robbery !
If U take this comment out, then U should take "ALL" comments of controversial out.
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Tomato-Can
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I agree with U that the editors should strive not to put in their opinions, Tomato.
That’s why I did not put in my own eye witness opinion (on TV) which was that it was an outright robbery !
I put in “controversial stoppage”. 8)
Record books have it as KO 4 or TKO 4 which gives the impression that I think Overhand swallowed.
If he has a written report on it, I wish he would post the reference.
But going back & reading the reference source maybe I should have put in “outright robbery !”.
C 4 yerself.
By Malcolm “Flash” Gordon, Tonight’s Boxing Program # 449 page 3.
Much controversy as it looks as if King fixed another win in the aftermath of the Pe Suh Shit murder by CBS- Dons own fighter Bey smacking around defensive vet Chaplin then suddenly in the 3rd with Chaplin against the ropes King’s ref jumps in and stops the bout! The “Fright Doctor” atmosphere obviously provided good cover for King to pull these rigged endings off. Bey is 9-0 8 “KOs.”
What can Chaplin do? If he opens his mouth, he’s blackballed out of the lucrative division by the gangster.
How can you tell? The ref was none other than Mark Tessman. Yes, the same guy who lets the fighter’s bomb each other over the years (remember John Tate landing dozens of blows on Cookie Wallace- hands at side, head through the ropes) with a relaxed “let em fight” attitude? Now suddenly, Tessman rushes in to stop a match which favors a millionaire gangster’s personal boxer.
What upsets me about this fight is that it was just as (maybe even more) controversial as the fight two weeks later when the “putz” referee Joey Curtis stopped the fight between Dokes & Weaver in the first rd.
Yet, none of the boxing press included the Bey-Chaplin report (Other than Bey TKO 4 Chaplin.) in their coverage of the boxing show that was televised on ABC TV.
In case Y’all musta forgot, The “bile” (oops, I forgot a “b”) of boxing was in Kings pocket in those “good old” days.
Not 2 worry though, the ring’s no longer in Kings pocket…
They are now in Arnum’s.
Yeah, I have an agenda…I lost $$ on both fights. U don’t forget those things.
BTW, tonight's Boxing Program was the most accurate & comprehensive boxing source in the 1st half of the 1980's.
"Flash" Gordon was the guy who broke the story exposing the King-Ring record book-ABC tourney fiasco terminating in Scott Ledoux kicking off Howard Cossell's toupee & calling him a "shill" on ABC -TV.
That’s why I did not put in my own eye witness opinion (on TV) which was that it was an outright robbery !
I put in “controversial stoppage”. 8)
Record books have it as KO 4 or TKO 4 which gives the impression that I think Overhand swallowed.
If he has a written report on it, I wish he would post the reference.
But going back & reading the reference source maybe I should have put in “outright robbery !”.
C 4 yerself.
By Malcolm “Flash” Gordon, Tonight’s Boxing Program # 449 page 3.
Much controversy as it looks as if King fixed another win in the aftermath of the Pe Suh Shit murder by CBS- Dons own fighter Bey smacking around defensive vet Chaplin then suddenly in the 3rd with Chaplin against the ropes King’s ref jumps in and stops the bout! The “Fright Doctor” atmosphere obviously provided good cover for King to pull these rigged endings off. Bey is 9-0 8 “KOs.”
What can Chaplin do? If he opens his mouth, he’s blackballed out of the lucrative division by the gangster.
How can you tell? The ref was none other than Mark Tessman. Yes, the same guy who lets the fighter’s bomb each other over the years (remember John Tate landing dozens of blows on Cookie Wallace- hands at side, head through the ropes) with a relaxed “let em fight” attitude? Now suddenly, Tessman rushes in to stop a match which favors a millionaire gangster’s personal boxer.
What upsets me about this fight is that it was just as (maybe even more) controversial as the fight two weeks later when the “putz” referee Joey Curtis stopped the fight between Dokes & Weaver in the first rd.
Yet, none of the boxing press included the Bey-Chaplin report (Other than Bey TKO 4 Chaplin.) in their coverage of the boxing show that was televised on ABC TV.
In case Y’all musta forgot, The “bile” (oops, I forgot a “b”) of boxing was in Kings pocket in those “good old” days.
Not 2 worry though, the ring’s no longer in Kings pocket…
They are now in Arnum’s.
Yeah, I have an agenda…I lost $$ on both fights. U don’t forget those things.
BTW, tonight's Boxing Program was the most accurate & comprehensive boxing source in the 1st half of the 1980's.
"Flash" Gordon was the guy who broke the story exposing the King-Ring record book-ABC tourney fiasco terminating in Scott Ledoux kicking off Howard Cossell's toupee & calling him a "shill" on ABC -TV.
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