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On 5/11/2020 at 9:15 PM, wandshogun09 said:

2020’s fucked. Think the world needs to pull the plug and reboot. 

i had a friend message me last night to tell me if Tyson comes back he destroys AJ. Its mad what a a little well edited video can do. Go on twitter and read responses to the video, its insane.

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That Tyson padwork video sent me into a soul searching hour deciding if there was any chance..

 Realistically not a hope in hell.  But if he has a little charity exhibition match and looks amazing, you’ll hear drums from the deep.  Wilder v Tyson even for one round would be a sight in a Rocky Balboa way.  Tyson v Fury though is a complete non starter, Tyson would die.

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Just Marvin Hagler ripping Alan Minter’s face off.

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That first lunging right hook! Christ.

This is the fight that soured Marvelous Marv on the UK. It’s a real shame the ugly post-fight scenes that night attached a negative talking point to a first class performance and him finally winning the world title. 

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Yeah I don’t know that much about Minter but I always heard he was stirring up the racial stuff going into the Hagler fight and saying things like “No black man is taking my belt”. 

Thanks for the link I’ll give that a read. 

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33 minutes ago, PowerButchi said:

Alan Minter was a right cock. There's a great article on the fight on the Grauniad website 

 

EDIT: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/that-1980s-sports-blog/2013/oct/03/alan-miller-marvin-hagler-1980-boxing-low-point

That was excellent, thanks for sharing.

I don't watch a whole lot of boxing anymore, but I do still love reading good articles about it. Kevin Mitchell on The Guardian always has interesting insight, and knows his onions.

This from Barney Ronay is an absolute belter as well. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2020/may/15/mike-tyson-comeback-talk-boxing-barney-ronay

Another excellent piece on someone I knew nothing about. What a gaff. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/may/15/jimmy-glenn-boxing-bar-times-square

Been meaning to read Four Kings, as someone lent it me a few months back and I wanted to do a kind of watch along with it, so I think I'll start it this week, inspired by some of this thread.

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