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Tex Cobb knocked out????
Posted: 13 Jun 2010, 05:26
by wvboxer
Ok I've watched Cobb / Holmes Cobb / Shavers & Cobb / Norton. How in the world was Cobb knocked out by Dee Collier??????? Guy had an unreal chin. Thanks!!
Re: Tex Cobb knocked out????
Posted: 13 Jun 2010, 05:34
by bennie
wvboxer wrote:Ok I've watched Cobb / Holmes Cobb / Shavers & Cobb / Norton. How in the world was Cobb knocked out by Dee Collier??????? Guy had an unreal chin. Thanks!!
He began to get knocked about towards the end of his career and suffered a concussion against Leon Spinks, for example. "I knew enough to know it wasn't pretty in there," he cracked from his hospital bed.
The well ran dry.
Re: Tex Cobb knocked out????
Posted: 13 Jun 2010, 09:21
by yancey
I wonder what kind of shape is Tex in nowadays?
Hope he is doing well.
Anybody know?
Re: Tex Cobb knocked out????
Posted: 13 Jun 2010, 17:45
by allworld80
yancey wrote:I wonder what kind of shape is Tex in nowadays?
Hope he is doing well.
Anybody know?
A few things I found
In January 2008 at age 57, Cobb graduated magna cum laude from Temple University with a bachelor's degree in sport and recreation management. He remarked that it was odd to hear the cheers of a packed arena without being in a boxing ring. "It was nice to have that opportunity to wear a robe, to step up there and not have to worry about bleeding," Cobb said.[3]
Photo from 2007 according to the site I got it from (Cobb on the right of course)
Re: Tex Cobb knocked out????
Posted: 17 Jun 2010, 05:14
by overhand_right
His chin was beginning to depart him - he was knocked down in the 9th vs Eddie Gregg in the fight prior to his loss to Dee Collier, who was a beast of a specimen for anyone who's never seen Collier, btw.