Oh my ...... time to be controversial again. Two small things caught my eye and you guy's are going to so disagree with me but the things i am about to post are true stories that attually happened one is quietly spoken of in boxing folklore the other is convieniently forgotten because of the persons conserned.
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1. Anyway, Tyson, in his prime, would have killed Lewis. I think they were supposed to fight once back when Tyson was in his prime, but it got cancelled, if I rememeber correctly.
Your Correct, this match was made against Buster Demato<Sp?> wishes, Tyson had sparred with Lewis 3 fights before and had given him a complete working over, i mean he beat the **** out of Tyson. So Demato got the fight cancelled. aslo add in the fact that Tyson and lewis fought twice at amature level both times Lewis won. This was brought up in the build up to thier fight a few years back and after the fight Tyson was nothing but humble <Which he had NEVER been before>
2.and this is almost impossible to prove but if you look for it you can find it.
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Why every time I start talkin about boxing a white man gotta pull Rocky Marciano out they ***?
The story goes than Ali was short of cash in his exile years and some company paid Marciano and Ali for a advert to spar, Marciano was in his late fourties i think and was bald so they had him wearing a wig.
Ali being Ali kept knocking the wig off with his jabs and Marciano was getting more and more annoyed. Ali promiced not to do it again but the next shot off went the wig again, so Marciano clocked him one and dropped the greatest on his butt, he refused to carry on.
Ok it wasn't a real fight but it's a funny story none the less