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He was a rough and tumble guy,with a pretty good jab.
One of my favorite HW contenders of the 1980's.
How many of his professional fights were either televised or filmed.
If televised,which networks were they shown on?

Tex Cobb fought Earnie Shavers on the closed-circuit bout of Thomas Hearns vrs Pipino Cuevas main event fight,Saturday August-2-1980 in Detroit Michigan.

He fought Holmes on TV.
I think it was ABC.
Historic fight in that afterwards Cosel developed some type of sense of grandeur and quit calling the fights.

Cobb who was always great with the one liners, told Holmes, "next time lets do it in a phone booth".
Larry told him" no, next time lets do it over the phone".

The Ken Norton fight was televised.

As was the 2nd fight with Michael Dokes.

I have a few of his fights, I think they all were taped from the TV.

Leon Spinks is another one not mentioned above I have that
has TV ads on it.

That I have:

KO8 Earnie Shavers
L10 Ken Norton
L10 Michael Dokes
KO8 Jeff Shelburg
L15 Larry Holmes
LTD4 Michael Dokes
L10 Eddie Gregg (at least rd 9 knockdown of Cobb broadcast)
W10 Leon Spinks
KO1 Sonny Barch

The Bernardo Mercado fight was on the Holmes-Snipes undercard so likely will be in DK's vault - I do have Jimmy Young-Franco Thomas off that undercard which is pretty fekkin rare. David Bey KO2 Buster Douglas was also on that bill, a fight I'd gauge a mans eyes out just to see.

He fought Jon Voight in about 1980 but that one was initially only released in cinemas...

The one Cobb fight I would like to see is Dee Collier, there were rumours he went into the tank for that one.

I saw Cobb all the time at Frazier's gym in Philly.

He had diarrhea of the mouth -- he talked continually.
I made it a point to avoid him if I could. Meanwhile the clueless newsmen just loved him. His compulsive babbling was on their exact wave length.

Cobb was a typical martial arts guy turned boxer.
He couldn't punch. This is a characteristic of karate people who move over to boxing.
Those guys are conscientious--they are in good condition, but they can't punch at all.

Another good example was Murray Sutherland.

I saw Cobb work out and told Benton that he didn't have it. His strength, chin, condition would be wasted because he had no offense that would bother a real fighter.

Benton said, "Well, he won't be the greatest fighter in the world, but he'll make some money."

I remember one time Cobb came over to me and started talking about (Leon) Spinks.

"I come up here see real fighters," I said to him. "Seeing one right hand to the body that Bennie Briscoe throws in a workout is worth Spinks' whole career."

gran.....will you ever reveal who you really are? By the way...would you let me know the next time a case of O.J. falls off the truck?

Would have been an interesting era Gran.
Was there much interaction between Frazier and Cobb around
that time?

Cobb seems like a fun loving guy that never took him self serious,
the style of Full Contact he fought in back then, was very upright
and 'flicky'. It was not until the 90s that kickboxing (full contact
karate it was before then) really started to get solid with its
kicking and punching.
Karate is bad for anything combative, let alone for boxing skills.

Getting back to the original question, I'm pretty sure one of the networks showed some highlights of a Cobb fight, pre-Shavers. I'm going by memory alone so I can't tell you which fight it was, or which network it was broadcast on, but I seem to remember them showing a few rounds when their scheduled fight ended early.

BoxBuzz wrote:gran.....will you ever reveal who you really are? By the way...would you let me know the next time a case of O.J. falls off the truck?

Something tells me pulling back the curtain would not be conducive to garnering respect...

BoxBuzz wrote:gran.....will you ever reveal who you really are? By the way...would you let me know the next time a case of O.J. falls off the truck?

Poor buzz not only believes everything Thomas Hauser pontificates, but he also accepts as gospel anything the homosexually fixated sicko of boxrec, collins, spews out.

Always remember, buz,

MOTTO of the THOMAS HAUSER Foundation:
“The less you know about boxing, the more you qualify to be a member of the walking army of sycophants groveling for the “Religion of Ali”

granberry wrote:

BoxBuzz wrote:gran.....will you ever reveal who you really are? By the way...would you let me know the next time a case of O.J. falls off the truck?

Poor buzz not only believes everything Thomas Hauser pontificates, but he also accepts as gospel anything the homosexually fixated sicko of boxrec, collins, spews out.

Always remember, buz,

MOTTO of the THOMAS HAUSER Foundation:
“The less you know about boxing, the more you qualify to be a member of the walking army of sycophants groveling for the “Religion of Ali”

Hey crankberry. It wasn't me who called you on the orange juice bullshite.

It was the real boxing guys in here. They called you out and exposed you as an old fraud.

No wonder you are so bitter and twisted. Laughed at and rejected by real boxing guys.

PS Your stories about Johnson and Young sound like crapola too.

Collins2000 wrote:

granberry wrote:

BoxBuzz wrote:gran.....will you ever reveal who you really are? By the way...would you let me know the next time a case of O.J. falls off the truck?

Poor buzz not only believes everything Thomas Hauser pontificates, but he also accepts as gospel anything the homosexually fixated sicko of boxrec, collins, spews out.

Always remember, buz,

MOTTO of the THOMAS HAUSER Foundation:
“The less you know about boxing, the more you qualify to be a member of the walking army of sycophants groveling for the “Religion of Ali”

Hey crankberry. It wasn't me who called you on the orange juice bullshite.

It was the real boxing guys in here. They called you out and exposed you as an old fraud.

No wonder you are so bitter and twisted. Laughed at and rejected by real boxing guys.

PS Your stories about Johnson and Young sound like crapola too.

collins, the homosexually fixated nephew of one of boxrec's owners, can't stand the fact that anyone has actual experience with boxing.

Collins brought Mr. La Raza Hate-America Frankie over to boxrec from CyberboxingCrap, and with him he brought Rick("The Greatest of all time") Farris.

As far as homosexually fixated collins knows, these are giants of boxing.

collins was there in Jesse Burnett's dressing room in the Spectrum when I gave Burnett a carton of orange juice after he had just been robbed in the decision in a 12-round fight with Jerry Martin. A guy dressed like a pimp grabbed at the carton after Burnett took a drink and said, "Give me some."

I blew up, and said I gave Burnett the juice because he had just fought an long hard fight and been robbed.

Every in the room (all black except Burnett's manager) got very quiet, because Philly was a mob city then and I was white, which meant to them I must be the mob.

When I was back over at Martin's dressing room later, some of the people from Burnett's dressing room came in and asked me if I was 'sore' at them. I said no, I had already forgotten it. Martin's stooge 'manager,' Leon Tabbs, a weak worm if there ever was one, looked terrified and wondered even more who I was connected with (actually no-one).

Once after a Spectrum fight card where I saw a very old Bennie Briscoe beat a young, undefeated Ted Mann by just jabbing the entire ten rounds (excellent plan by Benton) I ran into Bennie and told him I had brought my usual four cartons of orange juice, but I had felt sorry for Ted Mann and gave him the last one, so I had nothing for Briscoe. Briscoe liked that and said, "I know what you mean," when I told him I felt sorry for Mann.

At another, crummy arena in Philly, I gave an old Billy Douglas a carton shortly after he had come out of the ring. His hands were not coordinated enough for him to get the carton open just minutes after he had fought and I had to open it for him.

A fighter is badly dehydrated after a fight, and there is nothing better for him than the orange juice to un-dehydrate him and give him some easily digested nutrition.

The stupidity of trainers after fights (not good trainers) is incredible. Often they take their fighter out for a drink (the worst thing possible in that dehydrated condition) or go back to a hotel and have drinks.

What exactly would the homosexually fixated collins' Mr. Frankie La Raza know about what goes on on the East Coast, where the real boxing knowledge was?

Why is the hysterical, homosexually fixated collins so desperately afraid of the fact that I have the background I do in boxing, and was good friends with Wesley Mouzon, Georgie Benton, Harold Johnson, Jimmy Young, Bennie Briscoe, etc. etc. etc.

Why does that make the screwed up collins so desperate?

And most important, why do the so-called 'moderators' of boxrec allow the homosexually fixated collins to turn their site into a toilet?

Dance, my own little rummy, dance.

No one goes around handing orange juice to other people's fighters.

If you had ever been around boxing (other than in your own fantasy world) you'd know this.

Stick to vague innuendo and other nonsense. That way you might even fool some of the more gullible clowns in here.

Collins2000 wrote:Dance, my own little rummy, dance.

No one goes around handing orange juice to other people's fighters.

If you had ever been around boxing (other than in your own fantasy world) you'd know this.

Stick to vague innuendo and other nonsense. That way you might even fool some of the more gullible clowns in here.

collins, the homosexually fixated nephew of one of boxrec's owners, can't stand the fact that anyone has actual experience with boxing.

Collins brought Mr. La Raza Hate-America Frankie over to boxrec from CyberboxingCrap, and with him he brought Rick("The Greatest of all time") Farris.

As far as homosexually fixated collins knows, these are giants of boxing.

collins was there in Jesse Burnett's dressing room in the Spectrum when I gave Burnett a carton of orange juice after he had just been robbed in the decision in a 12-round fight with Jerry Martin. A guy dressed like a pimp grabbed at the carton after Burnett took a drink and said, "Give me some."

I blew up, and said I gave Burnett the juice because he had just fought an long hard fight and been robbed.

Every in the room (all black except Burnett's manager) got very quiet, because Philly was a mob city then and I was white, which meant to them I must be the mob.

When I was back over at Martin's dressing room later, some of the people from Burnett's dressing room came in and asked me if I was 'sore' at them. I said no, I had already forgotten it. Martin's stooge 'manager,' Leon Tabbs, a weak worm if there ever was one, looked terrified and wondered even more who I was connected with (actually no-one).

Once after a Spectrum fight card where I saw a very old Bennie Briscoe beat a young, undefeated Ted Mann by just jabbing the entire ten rounds (excellent plan by Benton) I ran into Bennie and told him I had brought my usual four cartons of orange juice, but I had felt sorry for Ted Mann and gave him the last one, so I had nothing for Briscoe. Briscoe liked that and said, "I know what you mean," when I told him I felt sorry for Mann.

At another, crummy arena in Philly, I gave an old Billy Douglas a carton shortly after he had come out of the ring. His hands were not coordinated enough for him to get the carton open just minutes after he had fought and I had to open it for him.

A fighter is badly dehydrated after a fight, and there is nothing better for him than the orange juice to un-dehydrate him and give him some easily digested nutrition.

The stupidity of trainers after fights (not good trainers) is incredible. Often they take their fighter out for a drink (the worst thing possible in that dehydrated condition) or go back to a hotel and have drinks.

What exactly would the homosexually fixated collins' Mr. Frankie La Raza know about what goes on on the East Coast, where the real boxing knowledge was?

Why is the hysterical, homosexually fixated collins so desperately afraid of the fact that I have the background I do in boxing, and was good friends with Wesley Mouzon, Georgie Benton, Harold Johnson, Jimmy Young, Bennie Briscoe, etc. etc. etc.

Why does that make the screwed up collins so desperate?

And most important, why do the so-called 'moderators' of boxrec allow the homosexually fixated collins to turn their site into a toilet?

I honestly didn't think you'd be daft enough to post that OJ story again gran.

I guess you can't control yourself now. Or you have told it so often you actually think it really happened. Some old white guy walking into dressing rooms and bestowing gifts of OJ on fighters he judged worthy? Hilarious.

Lay off the cheap booze, buddy, you are in danger of losing what little grip on reality you still have.

Collins2000 wrote:I honestly didn't think you'd be daft enough to post that OJ story again gran.

I guess you can't control yourself now. Or you have told it so often you actually think it really happened. Some old white guy walking into dressing rooms and bestowing gifts of OJ on fighters he judged worthy? Hilarious.

Lay off the cheap booze, buddy, you are in danger of losing what little grip on reality you still have.

collins, the homosexually fixated nephew of one of boxrec's owners, can't stand the fact that anyone has actual experience with boxing.

Collins brought Mr. La Raza Hate-America Frankie over to boxrec from CyberboxingCrap, and with him he brought Rick("The Greatest of all time") Farris.

As far as homosexually fixated collins knows, these are giants of boxing.

collins was there in Jesse Burnett's dressing room in the Spectrum when I gave Burnett a carton of orange juice after he had just been robbed in the decision in a 12-round fight with Jerry Martin. A guy dressed like a pimp grabbed at the carton after Burnett took a drink and said, "Give me some."

I blew up, and said I gave Burnett the juice because he had just fought an long hard fight and been robbed.

Every in the room (all black except Burnett's manager) got very quiet, because Philly was a mob city then and I was white, which meant to them I must be the mob.

When I was back over at Martin's dressing room later, some of the people from Burnett's dressing room came in and asked me if I was 'sore' at them. I said no, I had already forgotten it. Martin's stooge 'manager,' Leon Tabbs, a weak worm if there ever was one, looked terrified and wondered even more who I was connected with (actually no-one).

Once after a Spectrum fight card where I saw a very old Bennie Briscoe beat a young, undefeated Ted Mann by just jabbing the entire ten rounds (excellent plan by Benton) I ran into Bennie and told him I had brought my usual four cartons of orange juice, but I had felt sorry for Ted Mann and gave him the last one, so I had nothing for Briscoe. Briscoe liked that and said, "I know what you mean," when I told him I felt sorry for Mann.

At another, crummy arena in Philly, I gave an old Billy Douglas a carton shortly after he had come out of the ring. His hands were not coordinated enough for him to get the carton open just minutes after he had fought and I had to open it for him.

A fighter is badly dehydrated after a fight, and there is nothing better for him than the orange juice to un-dehydrate him and give him some easily digested nutrition.

The stupidity of trainers after fights (not good trainers) is incredible. Often they take their fighter out for a drink (the worst thing possible in that dehydrated condition) or go back to a hotel and have drinks.

What exactly would the homosexually fixated collins' Mr. Frankie La Raza know about what goes on on the East Coast, where the real boxing knowledge was?

Why is the hysterical, homosexually fixated collins so desperately afraid of the fact that I have the background I do in boxing, and was good friends with Wesley Mouzon, Georgie Benton, Harold Johnson, Jimmy Young, Bennie Briscoe, etc. etc. etc.

Why does that make the screwed up collins so desperate?

And most important, why do the so-called 'moderators' of boxrec allow the homosexually fixated collins to turn their site into a toilet?

You have a bad stutter there cranky.

No matter how often you repeat the fantasy it will still be just that.

Have you considered counselling? No, not cottaging. I said counselling.

Collins2000 wrote:You have a bad stutter there cranky.

No matter how often you repeat the fantasy it will still be just that.

Have you considered counselling? No, not cottaging. I said counselling.

collins, the homosexually fixated nephew of one of boxrec's owners, can't stand the fact that anyone has actual experience with boxing.

Collins brought Mr. La Raza Hate-America Frankie over to boxrec from CyberboxingCrap, and with him he brought Rick("The Greatest of all time") Farris.

As far as homosexually fixated collins knows, these are giants of boxing.

collins was there in Jesse Burnett's dressing room in the Spectrum when I gave Burnett a carton of orange juice after he had just been robbed in the decision in a 12-round fight with Jerry Martin. A guy dressed like a pimp grabbed at the carton after Burnett took a drink and said, "Give me some."

I blew up, and said I gave Burnett the juice because he had just fought an long hard fight and been robbed.

Every in the room (all black except Burnett's manager) got very quiet, because Philly was a mob city then and I was white, which meant to them I must be the mob.

When I was back over at Martin's dressing room later, some of the people from Burnett's dressing room came in and asked me if I was 'sore' at them. I said no, I had already forgotten it. Martin's stooge 'manager,' Leon Tabbs, a weak worm if there ever was one, looked terrified and wondered even more who I was connected with (actually no-one).

Once after a Spectrum fight card where I saw a very old Bennie Briscoe beat a young, undefeated Ted Mann by just jabbing the entire ten rounds (excellent plan by Benton) I ran into Bennie and told him I had brought my usual four cartons of orange juice, but I had felt sorry for Ted Mann and gave him the last one, so I had nothing for Briscoe. Briscoe liked that and said, "I know what you mean," when I told him I felt sorry for Mann.

At another, crummy arena in Philly, I gave an old Billy Douglas a carton shortly after he had come out of the ring. His hands were not coordinated enough for him to get the carton open just minutes after he had fought and I had to open it for him.

A fighter is badly dehydrated after a fight, and there is nothing better for him than the orange juice to un-dehydrate him and give him some easily digested nutrition.

The stupidity of trainers after fights (not good trainers) is incredible. Often they take their fighter out for a drink (the worst thing possible in that dehydrated condition) or go back to a hotel and have drinks.

What exactly would the homosexually fixated collins' Mr. Frankie La Raza know about what goes on on the East Coast, where the real boxing knowledge was?

Why is the hysterical, homosexually fixated collins so desperately afraid of the fact that I have the background I do in boxing, and was good friends with Wesley Mouzon, Georgie Benton, Harold Johnson, Jimmy Young, Bennie Briscoe, etc. etc. etc.

Why does that make the screwed up collins so desperate?

And most important, why do the so-called 'moderators' of boxrec allow the homosexually fixated collins to turn their site into a toilet?

Leon Tabbs the cut man used in the UFC and in most Nevada bouts?

They hand OJ out at some wrestling comps. I used to get orange quarters
in between quarters when playing Aussie Rules.

If you did hand out OJ to fighters post fight, that is very considerate of you
Gran. It amazes me how some one who would do that could also be the same
man that gets so hateful and flustered on here over certain fighters.

I don't what is or aint true, next time a case of OJ falls off the truck I want my union buddy GB to think about his ol' friend Buzz!

I wont comment on the massive OJ fight. But Jesse is a favorite of mine, never seen anyone get robbed that often and be that terribly managed.

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:I wont comment on the massive OJ fight. But Jesse is a favorite of mine, never seen anyone get robbed that often and be that terribly managed.

Yeah he got jobbed over here against Conteh back in the 70's. That was the one armed version of Conteh to be fair, with two arms Conteh would have handled him pretty easily.