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Anyone remember sometime back in the 1990's,
where on one of the National Boxing shows (USA tUESDAY nIGHT FIGHTS OR ESPN)
the showed some former contender come out of the moth-balls
and fight for some boxing title.(that I don't think I had ever heard of before)
I seem to remember it may have been James Scott,
but don't seem to find the fight on his ring record.
anyone remember watching that fight with the older guy getting a shot ?

Do you know about when this would have happened?

I'm pretty sure sometime in the 1990's (maybe around 1996)
anyway, I thought it was strange, like the belt was already engraved
with his name when they handed it to him after the fight.
anyway, from what I remember he hadn't fought in some years.
and something interrupted his boxing career.
Possibly the promotor Murad Muhammad may have been involved.

They already had his name engraved on the belt before the fight?

Weight class?

I think it was light-Heavy

Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑16 Oct 2024, 16:36 They already had his name engraved on the belt before the fight?

that's how I remember it some 25 years later.
They whole programme seemed kind of "fishy" to me.
it really stunk even if it was some kind of publicity stunt on
an otherwise 'reputable" boxing show.
so maybe it was USA Tuesday Night fights.
( which later went off the air as far as I remember)

I'm not exactly sure of the time frame, other then at least 20 years ago.
according to wikipedia ,James Scott was paroled in 2005.
( it must have been someone with a simeiler background in boxing)

i remember somebody calling himself Lord Sir Anthony, aged about 50, having a fight for some bullshit title which he won in 19 seconds against some mexican..............Jesus somebody.
I think this was late 80s tho

Tony Ayala?

It may have been an "honory" Championship belt.
and the dude was black/African-American
and the bout went 'the distance"

Bernard "The Bull" Benton?

I dunno, but the last episode of USA TUESDAY NIGHT FIGHTS was broadcast on August.25.1998
( maybe it was around then)
they had been cancelled, so what did they have to loose ?