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oogiebe wrote: ↑12 Dec 2018, 21:23 Excellent! I would love to find a Foreman/Liston session after hearing Big George talk about it so much.

HomicideHenry wrote: ↑12 Dec 2018, 21:37

oogiebe wrote: ↑12 Dec 2018, 21:23 Excellent! I would love to find a Foreman/Liston session after hearing Big George talk about it so much.

The two men also had exhibition bouts with each other, I believe in '68.

Jasonkinsley wrote: ↑27 Dec 2018, 18:45

Also, I believe Greg Page tire up Mike Tyson before Tyson’s bout with Buster Douglas, knocking him down too.

HomicideHenry wrote: ↑12 Dec 2018, 20:41 Seen a clip last night of Johnny Nelson saying that at the tail end of his career he sparred with the 16-17 year old Tyson Fury and claimed he couldn't hit Fury at all. Pretty interesting stuff, and I tend to believe it because Steve Egan always said that when Fury was that age he legitimately stopped Mike Perez in sparring.



It made me think of sparring sessions that became larger than life. Probably my favorite is Duran-Benn when the Panamanian was touring Great Britain.

littlepug wrote: ↑30 Dec 2018, 15:58 Who was it that had Ray Leonard on Queer Street when he was getting ready for Hagler ?

Flump wrote: ↑30 Dec 2018, 16:02

littlepug wrote: ↑30 Dec 2018, 15:58 Who was it that had Ray Leonard on Queer Street when he was getting ready for Hagler ?

Quincy Taylor

littlepug wrote: ↑30 Dec 2018, 15:58 Who was it that had Ray Leonard on Queer Street when he was getting ready for Hagler ?

Syntax Error wrote: ↑30 Dec 2018, 15:47 Is there any footage of Ali V Holmes sparring?

Muhammad hired Larry a lot for sparring in the early to mid 70s and Holmes used to dominate the sessions too.

dr_devious wrote: ↑31 Dec 2018, 19:30 Thoughts on those spars above - Benn was outworking Duran, the Hearns-McCallum spar is as good as you'll see and McCallum was doing very well, Greg Page looked very useful in the spar against Mike Tyson, and Toney looked a notch ahead of McClellan. But I suppose sparring means sh1t when it comes to a live fight.

Jacopodb wrote: ↑06 Feb 2019, 15:01 There are legends, crossing the boxing gyms of Rome, regarding all-time great Carlos Monzon: one of those is about an episode that occurred in some boxing gym in Rome, while the Argentine champion was sparring prior to his oncoming fight vs Benvenuti, I guess: his sparring partner in that session, some obscure Roman boxer, wanted to gain an easy newspaper title as "The man who floored Monzon in sparring" perhaps, so he had the brilliant idea to attack Monzon and try to knock him out cold: Monzon didn't see it coming, but managed to withstand the attack, and then pumped that poor Roman boxer up like a bagpipe and that was the story.

oogiebe wrote: ↑06 Feb 2019, 15:05

Jacopodb wrote: ↑06 Feb 2019, 15:01 There are legends, crossing the boxing gyms of Rome, regarding all-time great Carlos Monzon: one of those is about an episode that occurred in some boxing gym in Rome, while the Argentine champion was sparring prior to his oncoming fight vs Benvenuti, I guess: his sparring partner in that session, some obscure Roman boxer, wanted to gain an easy newspaper title as "The man who floored Monzon in sparring" perhaps, so he had the brilliant idea to attack Monzon and try to knock him out cold: Monzon didn't see it coming, but managed to withstand the attack, and then pumped that poor Roman boxer up like a bagpipe and that was the story.

Love it! Never heard that story, but I love Monzon and could see it happen. He was a mean dude. Not sure why the lad would choose Carlos to attempt to make a statement! Would love to see it.

APerno wrote: ↑06 Feb 2019, 22:35 Sorry here comes a wet blanket.

I have always deeply, deeply, deeply (have I said deeply enough) hated this concept. If I was a trainer or manager I would always close off my fighter's sparing sessions from on-lookers and would never allow the session to turn into a fight. For what reason? Sparing sessions are a time to learn and fine tune technique, not to prove mettle. The game is already brutal enough, a fighter doesn't need to get beat on (for no pay) so a bunch of self proclaimed, useless experts (useless fat white men with an opinion) can stand around and wax poetically about this or that. Let them buy a ticket. A trainer who lets his fighter get into a gym war needs to be replaced by a man who will protect his fighter.