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There was some talk apparently of a Hagler - Holmes fight if Holmes had got passed Spinks. Doubt it would have ever happened but I am glad it didn't.

If Jimmy Young had beaten Ossie Ocasio he probably would have gotten a shot at Larry Holmes. I wish he had because this would have forever settled the arguments for worst/most boring fight of all time.

KOJOE90 wrote:There was some talk apparently of a Hagler - Holmes fight if Holmes had got passed Spinks. Doubt it would have ever happened but I am glad it didn't.

I think that the only one who talked about that fight was Holmes' manager, ant it was somthing more like "If Holmes beat Spinks, what's more left... Marvin Hagler?"... Impossible fight to happen, I think

KOJOE90 wrote:

expug wrote:I bet Chuck Wepner wishes he never had his little exhibition with Andre The Giant. I think Andre picked him up over his head and threw him into the 5th row. I dont think Chuck took the fall real well.

I read Wepner injured his back in that fall. Apparently Andre got confused a threw Wepner over the wrong side of the ring, the side without the extra floor padding!!

Didn't Leon Spinks 'fight' a wrestler on that card as well?

Yes I think wepner was wheeled out after this. Ill have to see about Spinks, not sure. The mental picture of Wepner literaly Flying out of the ring is a little unsettling.

Jaclem wrote:..there was never..never ever..any serious consideration of a match between sugar ray robinson and patterson. none. zilch. strictly some flak to get both fighters some unusual publicity. no chance of a match. nada.

Thanks for that info.

I'm glad about that.

When I watched the video of that, I thought the world must have gone crazy in 1959!

How could anybody expect a 39 yr old middleweight to challenge a 24 yr old HW champ; one that could punch pretty hard when he wanted to & was lightning quick with it?

It would have been sad to see.

Thank goodness it was a stunt.

I'm glad Hagler-Graham didn't happen in 1987. Graham would have outboxed Hagler convincingly... Prime for prime, Hagler wins, but by 1987 he was slow as fornicate, and in turn, his skills diminished as well as his reflexes.

EDIT: LMAO - the word f-u-c-k was turned into 'smeg'

DoubleM wrote:I'm glad Hagler-Graham didn't happen in 1987. Graham would have outboxed Hagler convincingly... Prime for prime, Hagler wins, but by 1987 he was slow as smeg, and in turn, his skills diminished as well as his reflexes.

Not everybody agrees with you on that one.

http://www.boxrec.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30748

KOJOE90 wrote:

DoubleM wrote:I'm glad Hagler-Graham didn't happen in 1987. Graham would have outboxed Hagler convincingly... Prime for prime, Hagler wins, but by 1987 he was slow as smeg, and in turn, his skills diminished as well as his reflexes.

Not everybody agrees with you on that one.

http://www.boxrec.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30748

I have to say, I've studied Hagler probably more than anyone else on here. I'm very confident of Graham beating him in '87.

Decagon wrote:[Leon Spinks actually had a number of professional wrestling matches in the Japanese-based FMW. He won one of their titles before losing it in a cage match to Ohnita. FMW was the promotion that ECW copied, only not so well.

Leon also had a match with Jerry Lawler.

I always thought ECW copied the late 70s to early 80s mid south wrestling.

They were booked by Eddie Gilbert for a time.

I suppose it could have happened but I'm glad Monzon and Hagler did not cross paths. Way too much would have been read into it.

E.G. Ali Holmes........Marciano Louis.........

ebeneezer wrote:Leon also had a match with Jerry Lawler.

Who is Jerry Lawler?

KOJOE90 wrote:

ebeneezer wrote:Leon also had a match with Jerry Lawler.

Who is Jerry Lawler?

Pro Wrestler,nicknamed The King. I think he is most well known for pile-driving comedian Andy Kaufman nearly breaking his neck. The seventies were wierd man.