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Anyone know how many of Scott LeDoux's fights were televised or filmed?

Brutu wrote:Anyone know how many of Scott LeDoux's fights were televised or filmed?

The one where he was thumbed in the eye by the wonderful Larry Holmes was on TV.

I am not sure if that fight took place before or after the wonderful Roberto Duran thumbed Davey Moore in the eye.

What wonderful practioners of "boxing" those two were in "winning" those fights.

Thumbs in the eyes aside..

I have a few of his fights. Foreman, Page, Holmes..a couple more Ill have to go check on.

Would be interested to see how many of his are available. I like to watch the
fights of the 'minor' players of the sport, the guys often forgotten who at a time
were relevant.

Robinson wrote:Thumbs in the eyes aside..

I have a few of his fights. Foreman, Page, Holmes..a couple more Ill have to go check on.

Would be interested to see how many of his are available. I like to watch the
fights of the 'minor' players of the sport, the guys often forgotten who at a time
were relevant.

Those and 1977 Leon Spinks, 1979 Ron Lyle, 1979 Ken Norton, 1979 Mike Weaver, 1980 Marty Monroe, 1981 Greg Page , 1982 Gerrie Coetzee, 1982 Gordy Racette, 1983 Frank Bruno, I have on video.

I have the Norton bout as well, I just noticed.

What about his 2 fights with Duane Bobick?
I think one was televised on national tv.

LeDoux, Scott - Johnny Boudreaux 0759 ABC

Collins2000 wrote:LeDoux, Scott - Johnny Boudreaux 0759 ABC

I remember this one.
In fact its unforgetable just how steamed Scott was when the scores came down.
This was part of that Ring Championship series or US championship series. Im not sure of the name.
It turned out to be a fiasco.
Do you remember the name of the tournament Collins?

Expug wrote:

Collins2000 wrote:LeDoux, Scott - Johnny Boudreaux 0759 ABC

I remember this one.
In fact its unforgetable just how steamed Scott was when the scores came down.
This was part of that Ring Championship series or US championship series. Im not sure of the name.
It turned out to be a fiasco.
Do you remember the name of the tournament Collins?

It was part of the infamous USA boxing tournament sponsored by ABC based on phony rankings supplied by Johnny Ort of the Ring Magazine.

The only positive thing that happened that night was when LeDoux knocked Howard Cosell's toupee eskew when LeDoux tried to get at Boudreaux during the post-fight interview.

LeDoux-Boudreaux was one of the worst decisions I've ever seen . . .

I've heard he got the shaft against a past-it Lyle as well, but I've never seen the bout . .any opinions from those who have?

His fight with (also a past-it) Norton is pretty entertaining . . Ken outboxes him through most of the bout but then has a Frank Bruno like peetering out and barely survives the fight.

Thanks for that Collins.

Foreman the peacemaker....
"Hey man...be a gentleman"

I remembering thinking that Johnny would win that fight. He was from Louisana via Texas, and so I knew a lot about him. He had the reputation of being a smooth boxer, but without much pop. I figured he could outbox LeDoux over 8 rounds.

So I had a double surprise that night: Surprise that he "lost," followed by surprise that he "won." Boudreaux's career never recovered from the scandal, as I recall.

raylawpc wrote:I remembering thinking that Johnny would win that fight. He was from Louisana via Texas, and so I knew a lot about him. He had the reputation of being a smooth boxer, but without much pop. I figured he could outbox LeDoux over 8 rounds.

So I had a double surprise that night: Surprise that he "lost," followed by surprise that he "won." Boudreaux's career never recovered from the scandal, as I recall.

I think it's more that his career never recovered because he was never really that good. He certainly had fast hands, but seemed to have never really learned some boxing basics. I don't recall; did he have much of an amatuer career?

Someone at the cyberboxing.com/fight tapes forum,is offering a substanial reward for a copy of,
Duane Bobick vrs Scott LeDoux I,
April-22-1976, at Bloomington MN
which they say had aired on NBC.

Can someone post the Norton vrs LeDoux fight on youtube?
I think this month was the 30th anniversary of it.

Here is a partial lists of some of Scott LeDoux's fights that were on National television.

1976-George Foreman vrs Scott LeDoux(CBS)

1979-Ron Lyle vrs Scott LeDoux(ABC delayed tape)
Mike Weaver vrs Scott Ledoux(CBS)

1980-Larry Holmes vrs Scott Ledoux(primetime ABC)

Someone mentioned on another forum that they thought that
Scott LeDoux vrs Dino Denis(1976) was televised.

What about Scott LeDoux's five round exhibition with Muhammad Ali
December.2.1977.
Was that filmed?

Has anyone here yet been able to locate a copy of the two fights of ,
Duane Bobick vs Scott Ledoux I (April-22-1976)
and Bobick vs LeDoux II(July-28-1977)?
It has been reported the first one aired on NBC television on a delayed basis later on that weekend.

George Foreman vs Scott LeDoux
August.14.1976
Utica, New York
CBS Sports Spectacular
(Jerry Quarry ringside commentator)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMLkbz3mpmM

Brutu, thanks for the link to the Foreman fight. I haven't seen that one since it was originally televised. I think during that short period of his career, George was at his best.

raylawpc wrote:

Expug wrote:

Collins2000 wrote:LeDoux, Scott - Johnny Boudreaux 0759 ABC

I remember this one.
In fact its unforgetable just how steamed Scott was when the scores came down.
This was part of that Ring Championship series or US championship series. Im not sure of the name.
It turned out to be a fiasco.
Do you remember the name of the tournament Collins?

It was part of the infamous USA boxing tournament sponsored by ABC based on phony rankings supplied by Johnny Ort of the Ring Magazine.

The only positive thing that happened that night was when LeDoux knocked Howard Cosell's toupee eskew when LeDoux tried to get at Boudreaux during the post-fight interview.

The tournament was run by non other than Don King. It was his way of getting control of top fighters. To box in the tournament you had to be ranked in the top ten. Oh you want to fight but aren't ranked in the top ten, no problem, just sign right here naming Don King your promotor and manager and we'll get you in the top ten. He ran the 1st show on an aircraft carrier in Florida and the LeDoux fight at the US Naval Academy so King could avoid paying federal taxes as military bases are fed tax free. I spoke to LeDoux in the mid 90's about that fight. He said he went to federal court to testify against King but of course teflon Don got off.
Did you know LeDoux now has ALS (Lou Gerig's) disease? Experts don't know a whole lot about how ALS occurs but they now think there is a connection to concussions. Evidently Gerig suffered several during his baseball career and boxers certainly suffer them more than most athletes except American football players.

Anyone here have any super 8 mm,16 mm or video-taping of Scott LeDoux training?
Someone over at the cyberboxingzone/fight films,collectibles forum is searching for any.