Next week is Tyson week

ShoeShine · Post by **ShoeShine** » 06 Oct 2005, 09:04

To whoever gets ESPN's sports classic station they are showing old fights of a prime Mike Tyson all next week. Starting Monday.

The Great John L · Post by **The Great John L** » 06 Oct 2005, 10:10

ShoeShine wrote:To whoever gets ESPN's sports classic station they are showing old fights of a prime Mike Tyson all next week. Starting Monday.

Didn't they just do that a few weeks ago? I remember getting to see Tyson blow away a bunch of stiffs, along with a few of hs title fights, and then they finished up with the Douglas whuppin. I think I've seen every pre-Douglas Tyson fight about 10 times now.

silkov · Post by **silkov** » 06 Oct 2005, 10:28

Can't they show anything rarer than that?... why not the fights of Robinson or Gavilan etc???...

The Great John L · Post by **The Great John L** » 06 Oct 2005, 10:29

Exactly. How about Mickey Walker week?

kick asner · Post by **kick asner** » 06 Oct 2005, 11:28

They do show some rare fights ocasionally, but not nearly as often as they show Tyson. I mean how many time do you need to see Tyson Knocking out Mike Jaimison?

ShoeShine · Post by **ShoeShine** » 06 Oct 2005, 14:20

kick asner wrote:They do show some rare fights ocasionally, but not nearly as often as they show Tyson. I mean how many time do you need to see Tyson Knocking out Mike Jaimison?

I wish they would show some of the great fighters from the 80's like Salvador Sanchez, Boza Edwards, Juan Laporte, Little Red Lopez, Saad Muhammad etc etc..they never show these guys

kick asner · Post by **kick asner** » 06 Oct 2005, 16:22

ShoeShine wrote:
kick asner wrote:They do show some rare fights ocasionally, but not nearly as often as they show Tyson. I mean how many time do you need to see Tyson Knocking out Mike Jaimison?
I wish they would show some of the great fighters from the 80's like Salvador Sanchez, Boza Edwards, Juan Laporte, Little Red Lopez, Saad Muhammad etc etc..they never show these guys

Those were definataly some exiciting fighters, would make for some great classic viewing. They don't seem to want to show the lighter weight classes. The magority of the air time goes to the heavyweights.

ShoeShine · Post by **ShoeShine** » 06 Oct 2005, 16:25

kick asner wrote:
ShoeShine wrote:
kick asner wrote:They do show some rare fights ocasionally, but not nearly as often as they show Tyson. I mean how many time do you need to see Tyson Knocking out Mike Jaimison?
I wish they would show some of the great fighters from the 80's like Salvador Sanchez, Boza Edwards, Juan Laporte, Little Red Lopez, Saad Muhammad etc etc..they never show these guys
Those were definataly some exiciting fighters, would make for some great classic viewing. They don't seem to want to show the lighter weight classes. The magority of the air time goes to the heavyweights.

or they show fights from the 50's. they also love to show Ali fights.

wlvrne · Post by **wlvrne** » 07 Oct 2005, 19:49

ESPN Classic channel is another rip-off from the cable companies. Another "bait-&-switch". I subscribed to that and quit years ago because of just this thing. They would show some stuff from Joe Louis, then a bunch of stuff from the 70's,80's & 90's which is not "classic" to me. Well, some of the 70's is, but not what they would show.

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