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When I first got into boxing, Eddie Nielsen was someone I enjoyed watching. He lost to Bruno and Bugner and lost on cuts a few times. He even fought on a Chris Dundee card in Miami.
Anyone know what happened to him?
Eddie Nielsen 70's & 80's Heavyweight
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Re: Eddie Nielsen 70's & 80's Heavyweight
Yeah I got into boxing around the same time and I remember him being talked up as a fairly decent test for the young Bruno, who’d been knocking over tomato cans.
I remember he had come back after a fairly long layoff ...knocked out Terry O’Connor i see
I remember he had come back after a fairly long layoff ...knocked out Terry O’Connor i see
Re: Eddie Nielsen 70's & 80's Heavyweight
Ah, good old Eddie. He could whack but he was slower than a wet weekend in Frinton.
Re: Eddie Nielsen 70's & 80's Heavyweight
Nielson put up a good fight against Joe Bugner in 1983. Nielson took a beating, but he kept steaming forward, pressuring Bugner, absorbing punishment while fighting back earnestly. The announcer for that fight even suggested that Bugner could be in trouble if Nielson had the stamina and willpower to take the fight into the later rounds. That's because Bugner was just starting his comeback, and his wind power was in question. Either way, Bugner's jabs cut Nielson to ribbons, prompting a 5th round TKO loss for Eddie.
That's what I remember about Nielson. I thought he made Bugner look less-than-good that night, which means Nielson muswt have been a tought guy.
That's what I remember about Nielson. I thought he made Bugner look less-than-good that night, which means Nielson muswt have been a tought guy.
Re: Eddie Nielsen 70's & 80's Heavyweight
Eddie was a strong, determined, big-hitting southpaw from Swindon who fought in a weak era for domestic heavyweight boxing in the 1970s, with Joe Bugner largely (and half-heartedly) ruling the roost after his shock win over Henry Cooper at Wembley in 1971, and Eddie still failed to emerge from a long list of pretty awful contenders and there was never a better time to take your chances. He knew how to finish an opponent and his fights were certainly eventful but he was slow and predictable and his chin seriously let him down at crucial times in his career.
Eddie was 8-0 (6) when he lost his record on cuts to Newcastle's Brian Jewitt at the National Sporting Club in 1973 but after three more wins, an unknown American by the name of Joe Batton sparked him in two rounds at the World Sporting Club in London - and Batton never won another fight. A few months later, Eddie was 'out' again at the hands of an unknown Brazilian but he bounced back with the greatest run of his career as he racked up eight consecutive and spectacular stoppage wins, including one over future British champion Tim Wood and revenge over that Brazilian, before decent American Obie English boxed his ears off over eight rounds in London in December 1974, only for the referee to give it to Eddie.
It proved a warning because next time out Eddie suffered a disastrous second-round defeat to Nigeria's Ngozika Ekwelum in London and the colour seriously left his cheeks for everyone knew the dream was over, although the fighter popped up with a few wins here and there but then dropped out altogether after Reading's talented but horribly lazy Ishaq Hussein stopped him on cuts in Southend in 1979. However, he was back three years later with a few wins to secure an ITV job with that man Bugner in 1982 - back in the UK after a failed attempt to crack it in Hollywood - and lost on cuts in five rounds a fight that reminded everyone of Bugner's perennial inability to sustain his attacks.
Sadly (for Eddie), there was inevitable talk of Bugner versus a young Frank Bruno at the time so Bruno's heartless team (Duff, Lawless, Barrett and Astaire) threw Eddie in with their man and the now ageing Neilson was floored and stopped in three rounds at the Albert Hall, with Tim Mo of Boxing News covering his eyes throughout the fight. Eddie suffered a terrible cut in that fight and you wonder who was managing him at the time because he was back just a few weeks later to get bashed up by Bruno's old amateur rival, Rudi Pika, in seven rounds, after which he thankfully called it a day. He got into a spot of bother a few years ago in Swindon when he decided to sort out the drug dealers in the town, which summed up Eddie. He was brave and willing and feared nobody but he usually wound up getting done.
Eddie was 8-0 (6) when he lost his record on cuts to Newcastle's Brian Jewitt at the National Sporting Club in 1973 but after three more wins, an unknown American by the name of Joe Batton sparked him in two rounds at the World Sporting Club in London - and Batton never won another fight. A few months later, Eddie was 'out' again at the hands of an unknown Brazilian but he bounced back with the greatest run of his career as he racked up eight consecutive and spectacular stoppage wins, including one over future British champion Tim Wood and revenge over that Brazilian, before decent American Obie English boxed his ears off over eight rounds in London in December 1974, only for the referee to give it to Eddie.
It proved a warning because next time out Eddie suffered a disastrous second-round defeat to Nigeria's Ngozika Ekwelum in London and the colour seriously left his cheeks for everyone knew the dream was over, although the fighter popped up with a few wins here and there but then dropped out altogether after Reading's talented but horribly lazy Ishaq Hussein stopped him on cuts in Southend in 1979. However, he was back three years later with a few wins to secure an ITV job with that man Bugner in 1982 - back in the UK after a failed attempt to crack it in Hollywood - and lost on cuts in five rounds a fight that reminded everyone of Bugner's perennial inability to sustain his attacks.
Sadly (for Eddie), there was inevitable talk of Bugner versus a young Frank Bruno at the time so Bruno's heartless team (Duff, Lawless, Barrett and Astaire) threw Eddie in with their man and the now ageing Neilson was floored and stopped in three rounds at the Albert Hall, with Tim Mo of Boxing News covering his eyes throughout the fight. Eddie suffered a terrible cut in that fight and you wonder who was managing him at the time because he was back just a few weeks later to get bashed up by Bruno's old amateur rival, Rudi Pika, in seven rounds, after which he thankfully called it a day. He got into a spot of bother a few years ago in Swindon when he decided to sort out the drug dealers in the town, which summed up Eddie. He was brave and willing and feared nobody but he usually wound up getting done.