Get in there Frank, 30 years ago!!

[bigjack]

IT was live on Sky TV. It was used to shift dishes, not PPV. The rematch was the first PPV £9.99 with a full British leg of world title fights included. It was shown delayed on ITV at 9.25 am and on BBC 1 the following evening.

Was just gonna say it was a tenner i payed and fell asleep before it started and missed it.

I watched it at a local hotel,think it was a tenner ,that included some scran and a room for the rest of the night after the fight.

[TheGman]

IT was live on Sky TV. It was used to shift dishes, not PPV. The rematch was the first PPV £9.99 with a full British leg of world title fights included. It was shown delayed on ITV at 9.25 am and on BBC 1 the following evening.

Was just gonna say it was a tenner i payed and fell asleep before it started and missed it.

I watched it at a local hotel,think it was a tenner ,that included some scran and a room for the rest of the night after the fight.

Thats a good deal that mate,i payed a tenner just to fall asleep on my ex birds couch haha

[bigjack]

IT was live on Sky TV. It was used to shift dishes, not PPV. The rematch was the first PPV £9.99 with a full British leg of world title fights included. It was shown delayed on ITV at 9.25 am and on BBC 1 the following evening.

Was just gonna say it was a tenner i payed and fell asleep before it started and missed it.

I watched it at a local hotel,think it was a tenner ,that included some scran and a room for the rest of the night after the fight.

Thats a good deal that mate,i payed a tenner just to fall asleep on my ex birds couch haha

Haha,didn't get a sniff of the food though as the local hard cases got there first and piled their plates high

[Boxerbeetle]

IT was live on Sky TV. It was used to shift dishes, not PPV. The rematch was the first PPV £9.99 with a full British leg of world title fights included. It was shown delayed on ITV at 9.25 am and on BBC 1 the following evening.

I’ve been thinking about that - I don’t think the British leg of world title fights was actually part of the Tyson-Bruno PPV. I have a distinct memory of watching all the British fights which had loads of adverts for the PPV in between rounds, but I had to listen to the Tyson fight on the radio.

Of course, I could be remembering it wrong, it was a long time ago!

[handsofstone]

I was too young to watch it live or remember it happen but I have seen the fight a few times, I always thought Bruno wobbling Tyson in the 1st was a bit OTT, he did catch him clean but I don't think Tyson was badly hurt or staggered, same as when the commentator thought Hearns hurt Hagler which I just never seen

Good effort from Bruno but his holding and hitting was frustrating along with the constant spoiling

[cutsman]

BBC article about the fight

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/47276177

[paddy chavez]

Not a bad weekend of boxing Duran beat Barkley the night before.

[paddy chavez]

Bruno came round my house a couple of times when I was a kid he trained with my brother when amateur and they'd come back to ours along with Duke McKenzie and a few others

[Rezzer1967]

I think you're right about the British leg of that first PPV not actually being PPV. It was Naz vs Lawal from Scotland. I can imagine that it was one long advert for Bruno Tyson 2

[deadpan]

I remember listening to the 1st fight in bed on the radio.
I was so much cheering Frank on, more counting down the clock, hoping for him to get through as many rounds as possible.

Me too. Remember the Witherspoon fight and Honeyghan-Curry as well. Innocent times. Well I was 18ish, so not that innocent.

[bennie]

Remember it well. I was shocked at how sloppy Tyson looked. He loaded up time after time and was right there for the taking but Bruno wasn't the man to capatalize on Tyson's obvious boredom with the sport and his lack of direction under the predatory Don King and some real amateurs in his corner. (Buster Douglas, tucked away on the bill, was just 12 months away from destroying Tyson.) Richard Steele had a bad night as referee. Azumah Nelson proved the star of the show, finishing Mario Martinez in the 12th and last round with a frightening barrage.

[orbtastic]

Here's the TV times for that week, there's a piece on the fight but ITV didn't appear to show it, from the listings. Fraggle rock at 9:25 lolz

https://radiosoundsfamiliar.com/complet ... h-1989.php

Here's the Radio Times for the same day:

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/4a3c9f333dc ... 9d4d8314a1

BSB didn't launch until March 1990. Sky started on 5th Feb 1989.

[bigjack]

Here's the TV times for that week, there's a piece on the fight but ITV didn't appear to show it, from the listings. Fraggle rock at 9:25 lolz

https://radiosoundsfamiliar.com/complet ... h-1989.php

Here's the Radio Times for the same day:

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/4a3c9f333dc ... 9d4d8314a1

BSB didn't launch until March 1990. Sky started on 5th Feb 1989.

I've never heard an ITV version,just remember Harry Carpenter shouting 'get in there Frank'

[Ketchel]

I remember getting up in the middle of the might to listen to it on the radio. Did just the same for the rematch years later.

[orbtastic]

[quote=orbtastic post_id=5108177 time=<a href="tel:1551177352">1551177352</a> user_id=11249]
Here's the TV times for that week, there's a piece on the fight but ITV didn't appear to show it, from the listings. Fraggle rock at 9:25 lolz

https://radiosoundsfamiliar.com/complet ... h-1989.php

Here's the Radio Times for the same day:

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/4a3c9f333dc ... 9d4d8314a1

BSB didn't launch until March 1990. Sky started on 5th Feb 1989.

I've never heard an ITV version,just remember Harry Carpenter shouting 'get in there Frank'
[/quote]
Yeah, same.

I was googling it and found the closed circuit program for the UK.

[bennie]

Bruno came round my house a couple of times when I was a kid he trained with my brother when amateur and they'd come back to ours along with Duke McKenzie and a few others

Your brother boxed for Sir Philip Game?

[Rezzer1967]

Maybe I'm thinking of Bruno Witherspoon. I'm certain it was on ITV at 9.25 am and BBC around 8pm.

[Rezzer1967]

Yes, Bruno v Witherspoon was on ITV at 9.25 am Sunday 20 July 1986 and repeated on BBC 1 at 8.35 pm. Tyson Bruno 1 was on BBC 1 at 3pm and not on ITV at all.

[paddy chavez]

Bruno came round my house a couple of times when I was a kid he trained with my brother when amateur and they'd come back to ours along with Duke McKenzie and a few others

Your brother boxed for Sir Philip Game?

Yeah me too a bit Fred rix was the coach then
Did you know it then bennie

[Coco]

Bruno came round my house a couple of times when I was a kid he trained with my brother when amateur and they'd come back to ours along with Duke McKenzie and a few others

Your brother boxed for Sir Philip Game?

Yeah me too a bit Fred rix was the coach then
Did you know it then beenie

Was Frankie Lucas there too?

[paddy chavez]

Bruno came round my house a couple of times when I was a kid he trained with my brother when amateur and they'd come back to ours along with Duke McKenzie and a few others

Your brother boxed for Sir Philip Game?

Yeah me too a bit Fred rix was the coach then
Did you know it then beenie

Was Frankie Lucas there too?

Not sure I was a kid at the time 9/10 but could be .

[Coco]

Bruno came round my house a couple of times when I was a kid he trained with my brother when amateur and they'd come back to ours along with Duke McKenzie and a few others

Your brother boxed for Sir Philip Game?

Yeah me too a bit Fred rix was the coach then
Did you know it then beenie

Was Frankie Lucas there too?

Not sure I was a kid at the time 9/10 but could be .

I'm sure he was but prob at a different time to Bruno and Duke. My dad went down there a bit, remember him telling me years ago about him, quality fighter but a bit of a nutter!

[paddy chavez]

Bruno came round my house a couple of times when I was a kid he trained with my brother when amateur and they'd come back to ours along with Duke McKenzie and a few others

Your brother boxed for Sir Philip Game?

Yeah me too a bit Fred rix was the coach then
Did you know it then beenie

Was Frankie Lucas there too?

Not sure I was a kid at the time 9/10 but could be .

I'm sure he was but prob at a different time to Bruno and Duke. My dad went down there a bit, remember him telling me years ago about him, quality fighter but a bit of a nutter!

Your dad a Croydon bloke then

[Coco]

Bruno came round my house a couple of times when I was a kid he trained with my brother when amateur and they'd come back to ours along with Duke McKenzie and a few others

Your brother boxed for Sir Philip Game?

Yeah me too a bit Fred rix was the coach then
Did you know it then beenie

Was Frankie Lucas there too?

Not sure I was a kid at the time 9/10 but could be .

I'm sure he was but prob at a different time to Bruno and Duke. My dad went down there a bit, remember him telling me years ago about him, quality fighter but a bit of a nutter!

Your dad a Croydon bloke then

He moved there! He was teaching in Ingram, supported Palace though!

[bennie]

Bruno came round my house a couple of times when I was a kid he trained with my brother when amateur and they'd come back to ours along with Duke McKenzie and a few others

Your brother boxed for Sir Philip Game?

Yeah me too a bit Fred rix was the coach then
Did you know it then bennie

Yeah, I know that Bruno and the McKenzies boxed for Sir Philip Game. Bruno won the ABA heavyweight title in a classic encounter with Rudi Pika in 1980 and Duke reached the ABA semis in 1981 where he was surprisingly outboxed by a Welsh kid. Duke may have been boxing for Battersea by that time. Fred Rix later trained Tony Burke and possibly Devon Bailey, among others. Clinton married his daughter.