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For the 1980's generation, please list up your ufortable memory in boxing.

Let me do it the first 10 as sample (just brainstorming):

1. Leonard
2. Hagler
3. Hearns
4. Holmes
5. Mugabi
6. Don King
7. McGuigan
8. Rocky movies
9. Pryor
10. the Duvas

else?

Jeffsboxing wrote:For the 1980's generation, please list up your ufortable memory in boxing.

Let me do it the first 10 as sample (just brainstorming):

1. Leonard
2. Hagler
3. Hearns
4. Holmes
5. Mugabi
6. Don King
7. McGuigan
8. Rocky movies
9. Pryor
10. the Duvas

else?

Come again, Jeff?

Has it anything to do with breaking wind?

(zendo here. do you still speak with G?)

Hi Zendo!

I always come here, inserting and editing Indonesian bouts - but not so much entering this forum.

G - not really. Just sometimes he needs some Indonesian fights.

How are you Mate?

My memories of boxing from the 1980s are

Mike Tyson
Don King
Sugar Ray Leonard
Jeff Fenech
Larry Holmes
and scattered memories of the 1988 games
and Jeff Harding.

Kym

84 US Olympic team.

Hagler-Hearns
Hearns-Duran

Tomorrow's Champions
Leonard-Duran I
Leonard-Duran II
Leonard-Hearns
Gomez-Pintor
Holmes-Cooney
Berbick-Page
Curry-Starling I
Mitch Green.

Ah, it was a great time.
We all know the big stars of that era.
Here in Chicago it was a pretty vibrant time also .
At least in the first half of the decade.
There were regular cards and in 83 -84 a local cable station (sportsvision ) would put the fights on.
We had a real big fight that was a real throwback and it was televised on I believe NBC .
John Collins - Lenny Lapaglia.
Collins won the dec. in a barn burner.
Good times.

Many of the magazines from the 1980s (KO being possibly the biggest culprit) were constantly telling us that the 80s was a poor decade (mostly due to the heavyweight scene). Whilst I admit the 80s weren't great for the heavyweight division today's lot are even worse.

Ezzard wrote:Many of the magazines from the 1980s (KO being possibly the biggest culprit) were constantly telling us that the 80s was a poor decade (mostly due to the heavyweight scene). Whilst I admit the 80s weren't great for the heavyweight division today's lot are even worse.

The only reason the 80's heavyweights seemed so poor was because holmes and tyson were soo dominant, i am not a tyson fan at all but if you put together a list of top ten all time heavyweights both he and holmes better be there somewhere

IMO the era from '75 to '85 is the strongest era in boxing history,

heavy- holmes
light heavy- spinks, saad, gregory, braxton, galindez...
middle- hagler, monzon, briscoe,
welter- hearns, leonard
light- duran, pryor, dejesus, cervantes, arguello
feather- sanchez, chacon, boza, limon, nelson, pintor,
bantam- gomez, zarate, zamora, olivares

i say '85 because after that, hagler was shot, leonard got ever gift they could give him, hearns got too big for his chin, duran was too fat, sanchez was dead, pryor coked out, arguello got old, all the light heavies lost to spinks then got old, spinks moved up, holmes got old, chacon got punch drunk...but i'll take that era against any, even the 50's

KOmanTNT wrote:

Ezzard wrote:Many of the magazines from the 1980s (KO being possibly the biggest culprit) were constantly telling us that the 80s was a poor decade (mostly due to the heavyweight scene). Whilst I admit the 80s weren't great for the heavyweight division today's lot are even worse.

The only reason the 80's heavyweights seemed so poor was because holmes and tyson were soo dominant, i am not a tyson fan at all but if you put together a list of top ten all time heavyweights both he and holmes better be there somewhere

IMO the era from '75 to '85 is the strongest era in boxing history,

heavy- holmes
light heavy- spinks, saad, gregory, braxton, galindez...
middle- hagler, monzon, briscoe,
welter- hearns, leonard
light- duran, pryor, dejesus, cervantes, arguello
feather- sanchez, chacon, boza, limon, nelson, pintor,
bantam- gomez, zarate, zamora, olivares

i say '85 because after that, hagler was shot, leonard got ever gift they could give him, hearns got too big for his chin, duran was too fat, sanchez was dead, pryor coked out, arguello got old, all the light heavies lost to spinks then got old, spinks moved up, holmes got old, chacon got punch drunk...but i'll take that era against any, even the 50's

'too big for his chin' - I'd like to be able to claim that one for myself...

Don't forget Eusebio Pedroza... Many of these gusy were seen on colour TV too...

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