Sparring tales and gym legends

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Thread bump, any new ones?

[Tony1244]

Jimmy Cerello is my dad. He swore he knocked down Marciano to the day he died.
Marciano just did want to admit it. :)

Do you remember who managed your Dad?

[Controversial]

Thread bump as interesting

[DrDuke]

Greg Page dropping Mike Tyson was listed among the first examples in this thread, but it actually wasn't any sort of tale or legend, it was filmed:

[Controversial]

Tyson and McCall sparring, McCall quits

[Onamastus]

Tyson and McCall sparring, McCall quits

YouTube quality comment by you, Mr Controversial. McCall wasn't get paid to get punched in the hip and injured.

[Controversial]

Tyson and McCall sparring, McCall quits

YouTube quality comment by you, Mr Controversial. McCall wasn't get paid to get punched in the hip and injured.

Exactly and that's why he quit.

[margaret thatcher]

lol he obviously quits, he turns away and climbs out the f@cking ring

[goose 5]

Bob Patterson broke Hagler's rib in a 1982 sparring session.

[Caractacus]

looked more like Tyson landed a kidney punch on Oliver McCall to me.
McCall must have already been injured before because it looks like he is wearing some type of wrap
around his thorax.

[Caractacus]

came across a gym tale in a book recently


1n 1901,Canadian HW and future contender John Alexander "Sandy" Ferguson
https://www.boxrec.com/en/proboxer/11623

had secrued a job as a sparring partner to Bob Fitzsimmons.
according to the June 1901 edition of THE POLICE GAZETTE
"Bob Fitzsimmons has lost his sparring partner "Sandy" Ferguson,of whom great things were expected.
While Boxing the other night "Sandy" started to mix it up with Bob.
The result was a smashed ear,a bloody nose and several other catastophees for "Sandy"
followed by his sad departure for his home in Boston.

[JC]

Jack Johnson actually said Fitzsimmons was the hardest puncher he fought.

[Onamastus]

Jack Johnson actually said Fitzsimmons was the hardest puncher he fought.

When did he say this? In his autobiography he was unimpressed with fitzsimmons' efforts in their fight.

[JC]

Jack Johnson actually said Fitzsimmons was the hardest puncher he fought.

When did he say this? In his autobiography he was unimpressed with fitzsimmons' efforts in their fight.

I read it in a really old biography of Johnson (can't remember the name). The thing that stuck in my head was that there was a quote from Johnson saying Fitzsimmon's missed punches sounded like a swarm of bees going past.

Can't 100% vouch for the source tho.

[margaret thatcher]

Has huggin' Jack ever said who the physically strongest opponent in clinches was?

[Wee Tommy]

Didn’t Johnson say Choynski hit hardest?

[Caractacus]

It was Jim Jeffries who said in his autobiography that Bob Fitzsimmons hit the hardest
(he said Fitzsimmons punches hit at least "one-third harder then Tom Sharkey's punches)
but the hardest single punch he ever recieved was by Joe Choynski (it literally buttoned his lip)

[Caractacus]

btw i think it was Hank Griffin who Jack Johnson said hit him the hardest in a fight
(probably their second fight in 1902).

[mikebourkefan]

Joey Dawejko claimed to have knocked out Anthony Joshua in sparring. that really could be true i mean right after watching his loss to Frank Sanchez it became obvious Joey Dawejko is a pure puncher with little technical skill, but Joshua was knocked down and eventually out by a brawler before [Ruiz 1] so again it makes sense

[Controversial]

Didn't Lloyd Honeyghan bash Darren Dyer about in sparring and Darren came back with a hammer to do him in?

I don’t know but there was a similar story about Herbie Hide bashing someone up in sparring and they apparently returned with a weapon.

[coghaugen11]

Chris Eubank travelled to Herol Graham’s Sheffield gym in April 1989 and knocked him completely cold in under 60 seconds. Graham had never ever been down, unbeaten in 40+ fights at the time and world #1 contender known as a defensive wizard.

A young Naseem Hamed was in genuine shock (Graham was his idol). Apparently Eubank was motionless after doing it in some kind of stupor.

[margaret thatcher]

who the hell deleted my post

[Controversial]

Chris Eubank travelled to Herol Graham’s Sheffield gym in April 1989 and knocked him completely cold in under 60 seconds. Graham had never ever been down, unbeaten in 40+ fights at the time and world #1 contender known as a defensive wizard.

A young Naseem Hamed was in genuine shock (Graham was his idol). Apparently Eubank was motionless after doing it in some kind of stupor.

Lots of rumours about that, Graham said Eubank dropped him but he wasn't knocked out and in more recent times Eubank said he avoided Graham in the pros as he was too good and he couldn't land a punch on him.

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who the hell deleted my post

What post?

[margaret thatcher]

it was a reply to cog's eubank jerk off