MightyWarrior wrote: ↑02 Sep 2025, 01:48
Jo really was of his time, perfect for the 1970s, and had a good line in chat - of course his press conference where he said he’d fight anyone, even Jesus, led to Hugh McIlvanney’s great reply from the press row, cmon Joe, that’s only because you know he’s got bad hands.
Thank you.
I wasn't 100% sure if I was misremembering as I probably read that 30 years ago.
Of course it was the great Hugh McIlvenney who said that
MightyWarrior wrote: ↑02 Sep 2025, 01:48
Good old Joe, I remember as a young kid gobsmacked, staring at the back page of the paper on the bus, Richard Dunn laid out flat inside a round by a fired up Bugner ( an all too rare occurrence) with the headline WHO DUNN IT?
One of his great performances, although he got massive credit for the Frazer fight i think. I was too young to follow Joe’s career until his come back in the 80s
Hell of a chin on him, almost impossible to knock out on his pomp.
I remember thinking that the Bruno fight was a joke. Joe had no chance, and at best he was gonna just spoil his way through it against the young up-and-coming puncher. He was well past it obviously, and Barry Hearn - Eddie’s dad - was cashing in on a gullible public. A mate of mine bought me a ticket ( which I didn’t really want - he wasn’t a fight fan ) but we went along to it anyway - it was carnage at White Hart Lane, the type of crowds that you would see turning up to the AJ fights in later years, although they didn’t know they were meant to sing sweet Caroline back then.
Jo really was of his time, perfect for the 1970s, and had a good line in chat - of course his press conference where he said he’d fight anyone, even Jesus, led to Hugh McIlvanney’s great reply from the press row, cmon Joe, that’s only because you know he’s got bad hands.
It was, where I was stood someone let of a tear gas canister feet away from me, another lad, minding his own business got knocked out cold with one punch, banging his head badly on the concrete, getting on the tube later on was no holiday either.
