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Tuan_Jim wrote: ↑07 Feb 2021, 12:13 Has anyone ever seen or been able to source a ringside report on this mysterious fight? I remember a year or so ago a report on Lionel Butler vs Oliver McCall was unearthed in order to counter Butler's false claims of scoring a knockdown. I think a lot of people would be interested to read about what went down the night old Tex collapsed against Collier.

bwu wrote: ↑07 Feb 2021, 20:38 There’s a write-up at latimes.com that was interesting. Just Google ‘Dee Collier v. Tex Cobb.’

I hadn’t realized there was a slip and I didn’t know Cobb basically talked the ref into letting it continue a couple of times.

Cobb Goes Down, Out in First Round of Comeback Bid
By STEVE SPRINGER
OCT. 30, 1985 12 AM PT

Tex Cobb was pleading with referee Lou Filippo.

“Just give me a second,” he kept saying. “I’ll get there.”

He never did.

Cobb, who went the distance against such renowned punchers as Larry Holmes and Ken Norton, couldn’t get out of the first round against little-known Dee Collier Tuesday night.

The heavyweight fight, at Reseda’s Country Club, was stopped at 2:33 of the first round after Cobb had gone down four times from a barrage of punches and a fifth due to a slip.

In his career, which includes 32 professional fights, the 31-year-old boxer had only been knocked down once--last spring against Eddie Gregg.

“I’m still learning,” Cobb said. “I haven’t had near enough.

“I just never seemed to regain my balance.”

Cobb, who had retired after losing to Gregg in May, had returned to the ring with the hope of winning a match with newly crowned heavyweight champion Michael Spinks.

Collier, who entered the fight 10-3 with four knockouts, put Cobb down with a left early in the round, then drove him into his corner and halfway through the ropes seconds later.

When Cobb went down in the other corner a moment later, the referee showed the first indication he was ready to stop the fight.

Cobb reappeared to talk him out of it at least twice.

But after another knockdown and a slip that could better be characterized as a poor stumble, Cobb was through and it was Collier’s turn to talk.

“I couldn’t believe it myself, to tell you the truth,” Collier said. “But it’s time for Tex Cobb to move aside and let us young guys in.”

Howard Cosell beat Collier to the punch on that statement. He retired from announcing professional boxing after watching Holmes pummel Cobb for 15 rounds in 1982.

But even Howard might have been left speechless by Tuesday’s performance.

evrenb wrote: ↑08 Feb 2021, 07:42

Here is some footage of Dee Collier. What do you think? Did this guy have the ability to stop Tex genuinely??

Tuan_Jim wrote: ↑08 Feb 2021, 09:36
Cobb had grown soft living the Hollywood life (had been in several big films by then). He also withstood a ton of hard punches versus Shavers, Norton, Mercado and Holmes. I imagine Douglas hit him plenty. Gregg did. The chin can't go on forever, it sounds like his punch resistance simply left him.

Tuan_Jim wrote: ↑09 Feb 2021, 06:57 I wonder if Cobb vs Buster Douglas will ever surface? Holmes/Bonecrusher undercard. Don King has it in his archives. Reg Gutteridge who was ringside for ITV thought Cobb won.

evrenb wrote: ↑09 Feb 2021, 08:36

Tuan_Jim wrote: ↑09 Feb 2021, 06:57 I wonder if Cobb vs Buster Douglas will ever surface? Holmes/Bonecrusher undercard. Don King has it in his archives. Reg Gutteridge who was ringside for ITV thought Cobb won.

I have the broadcast of Holmes vs bonecrusher broadcast by itv will have to check it out. Not sure if it's on YouTube...

Controversial wrote: ↑09 Feb 2021, 17:49 On the topic of Cobb anyone notice a few fights later he was involved in a TD after 18 seconds of round one. An accidental clash of heads that was said to have caused several cut eyes. That must have been some clash of heads and the quickest TD in boxing history!!

Caractacus wrote: ↑15 May 2021, 12:17 what did Tex Cobb have to say about this fight anyway and why it ended as it did ?