Sugar Ray's Golden Gloves

[zuru]

I thought I asked this before but didn't get a response. Does anyone remember this?
It featured amateur teams competing against each other from different States in each weight class.
Some good fighters, that a few made it semi big.
Shelton Leblanc,Roman George,Vincent Releford ,Jesse Benevidez,were a few that competed. I think it came on weekly on Friday or Saturday nights back in the 80s. I've never been able to find anything about it online.

[Caractacus]

What year where you born ?
Is it possible you may be mis-remembering it from so far back ?
I don't think I ever seen it.
if it was on tv in the late 1980's, so you think someone would have taped it off of television at least with even a rented VCR.
maybe you arer thinking of the series THE CONTENDER back in 2007 ?

[Caractacus]

I do remember watching this commercial on TV tho from 2003 (18 yrs ago)

[zuru]

I cant lie my memory is getting dodgy. But I am sure it was in the mid(?) 80's.
And im pretty sure SRL was a commentator.
I can't believe that nobody remembers it. There were many fighters on teams all over the USA. A heavyweight,Pisa Final comes to mind.A funny thing,I can't remember the commercial you posted haha.

Hopefully someone will remember.

[Caractacus]

I think whoever had written that commercial for the bags had probably originally had Mike Tyson in mind for it,
but he was probably "indisposed" then.

[Caractacus]

I remember back in the mid-1980's the toy stores sold Franklin -Sugar Ray Leonard Boxing gloves
( the were placed with cardboard with plastic wrapping)

[elmersalsa]

Sugar Ray's Golden Gloves started in 1982 or '83 by the NBC TV network. It was televised on Saturday afternoons.

[Caractacus]

WHO PRODUCED IT ?

[elmersalsa]

WHO PRODUCED IT ?

No idea. But, I remember the boxing show.

[zuru]

Good thank you. I knew it was on but have never been able to find it on youtube,the internet or anyone else who ever knew about it.

[Caractacus]

then how was it that no one can find a single bit of info on the World Wide Web concerning it ?
sounds really mysterious.

[evrenb]

WHO PRODUCED IT ?

It was made by MCA TV ...in 1981

[evrenb]

https://www.ebay.ie/itm/401696594987

[evrenb]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/ ... ea81d73bf/

[Caractacus]

yeah, but where is the actual video proof that it ever existed ?
I ain't from Missouri but you going to have to "Show Me".

[NYboxing]

Not sure the date (sometime in 1982), but this show was in a fellow collector's collection from that series:

Kentucky vs. Louisiana

Roger Pisani vs Mike Marino
Herbie Bivalacqua vs Mathew Johnson
Timmy Rabon vs Mickey Eskridge
Adam George vs Mark Willett
Roman George vs Davey Philpott
Robert Miniefield vs James Mattingly
Norman Soloman vs Randy Delosh
Dary Sampy vs Pete Foster
Robert Lavarry vs William Mattingly