Fighters come back against the odds.
Posted: 18 Nov 2005, 00:30
Roy Jones Jr has lost the last 3 of his fights, and he looks rather washed up... is it possible he can come back and have one last fling at the title?
Through history some fighters have in fact done that, lets looks at Ray Robinson retired from boxing in 1952 and had a 3 year layoff, he came back in 1955 and lost a decision to ralph jones, in his next 4 fights leading up to the bobo olson fight, experts said he wasnt the same fighrt he once was.
But in that fight he knocked out Olson in 2 rounds.
Muhammed Ali is another example when he came back from his layoff from boxing, he lost to Frazier and Ken Nortan, and experts said at the time he would never have a chance in beating Forman. But as we already know Ali infact beat Foreman with ease...
These are just some examples...
Who else do you know of who have shown their age and were written off by boxing experts as being to old, but yet came back to make a big impact..
Through history some fighters have in fact done that, lets looks at Ray Robinson retired from boxing in 1952 and had a 3 year layoff, he came back in 1955 and lost a decision to ralph jones, in his next 4 fights leading up to the bobo olson fight, experts said he wasnt the same fighrt he once was.
But in that fight he knocked out Olson in 2 rounds.
Muhammed Ali is another example when he came back from his layoff from boxing, he lost to Frazier and Ken Nortan, and experts said at the time he would never have a chance in beating Forman. But as we already know Ali infact beat Foreman with ease...
These are just some examples...
Who else do you know of who have shown their age and were written off by boxing experts as being to old, but yet came back to make a big impact..