Re: Boxing Off-Topic
The last one I can remember with certainty was Randall Tex Cobb vs. Larry Holmes Friday Night on ABC in 1982. I was always fascinated by boxing even when I was just a little tyke. I would always watch it when it was on even though my dad was never a boxing fan. Not sure where I picked up the love of the sport, but anyway, I found a bunch of friends at school who also liked boxing and had a sleepover to watch the fight and play intellivision boxing until the wee hours of the morning.
When my friends and I get together(although its getting rare these days) we still laugh about our childhood boxing escapades. One moment in particular. We had a group of friends that would box and we'd pick a date and actually kind of train for it. We had some rings set up in back yards other in the basement,etc. The fights occurred when the parents were away. A lot of outdoor matches in the summertime with groups of neighborhood kids watching.
We didn't have real gloves. We had 2 sets of oversized deerskin mittens that we stuffed with knee high striped athletic socks. Anyway, so I'm fighting my buddy, pretty decent crowd of about 20 people including some girls so we didn't want to lose obviously.
**Cow Bell Rings** round 1, scheduled for 12 3 minute rounds.. We come out to the middle of the ring bobbing and weaving a little bit. I throw a jab and then all hell breaks loose. He starts throwing these wild windmills like the Tasmanian Devil and I panicked and started windmilling back. Toe to toe center of the ring the crowd is roaring the deerskin is flying. The kid with the stop watch gets so into the fight that he forgets to watch the time. Finally gasping for air we both break apart and scream how much time is left. We hear "oops" ***Cowbell clank***. For 7 minutes and 22 seconds we exchanged punches in the middle of the ring with no one going down. Would have loved to see the compubox stats on that.
After that we made some more rules 3 pairs of socks must be stuffed in the gloves, timekeeper can't be a judge, windmilling prohibited. Over time we actually became pretty decent, had some good legit fights and my buddies dad bought us some everlast gear once he saw what we were doing.
Good times.
The last one I can remember is the 1980 ABC telecast of Mike Weaver KOing John Tate in the last seconds of a 15th rounder to pull out the win. That heavyweight title fight was actually the TV undercard of the WBC Welterweight title fight between Sugar Ray Leonard and Davey Boy Green.
When my friends and I get together(although its getting rare these days) we still laugh about our childhood boxing escapades. One moment in particular. We had a group of friends that would box and we'd pick a date and actually kind of train for it. We had some rings set up in back yards other in the basement,etc. The fights occurred when the parents were away. A lot of outdoor matches in the summertime with groups of neighborhood kids watching.
We didn't have real gloves. We had 2 sets of oversized deerskin mittens that we stuffed with knee high striped athletic socks. Anyway, so I'm fighting my buddy, pretty decent crowd of about 20 people including some girls so we didn't want to lose obviously.
**Cow Bell Rings** round 1, scheduled for 12 3 minute rounds.. We come out to the middle of the ring bobbing and weaving a little bit. I throw a jab and then all hell breaks loose. He starts throwing these wild windmills like the Tasmanian Devil and I panicked and started windmilling back. Toe to toe center of the ring the crowd is roaring the deerskin is flying. The kid with the stop watch gets so into the fight that he forgets to watch the time. Finally gasping for air we both break apart and scream how much time is left. We hear "oops" ***Cowbell clank***. For 7 minutes and 22 seconds we exchanged punches in the middle of the ring with no one going down. Would have loved to see the compubox stats on that.
After that we made some more rules 3 pairs of socks must be stuffed in the gloves, timekeeper can't be a judge, windmilling prohibited. Over time we actually became pretty decent, had some good legit fights and my buddies dad bought us some everlast gear once he saw what we were doing.
Good times.
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