Watching the video of Mike Tyson got me to reminiscing about how good the heavyweight boxing matches were back in the late 60's up through the late 80's. I recently watched a 4 part series on Muhammad Ali and it was outstanding. Covered his boxing career from the beginning up till the very end and showcased his epic fights with Frazier, Forman and all the others. I mean back then, those heavyweight title fights were the talk of the town so to speak. Everyone seemed to be interested in them and they were a must see event on TV. I really miss those days. Like him or not, Ali was in my mind the best boxer ever.
Watching the video of Mike Tyson got me to reminiscing about how good the heavyweight boxing matches were back in the late 60's up through the late 80's. I recently watched a 4 part series on Muhammad Ali and it was outstanding. Covered his boxing career from the beginning up till the very end and showcased his epic fights with Frazier, Forman and all the others. I mean back then, those heavyweight title fights were the talk of the town so to speak. Everyone seemed to be interested in them and they were a must see event on TV. I really miss those days. Like him or not, Ali was in my mind the best boxer ever.
Hell, heavyweight championship fights were major topics of discussion among us guys when I was in elementary school back in the 1960s.
Julio Cesar Chavez is the toughest boxer of our generation. Even the best boxers in his weight class didn't want to fight him because he couldn't be hurt,...and he hit *hard*.
When he was in his prime, everybody knew that to fight Julio Cesar Chavez was to take a lot of punishment. Regardless of how many times they hit him, they couldn't hurt him.
If it was a 12 round fight, his opponent either got knocked out or got beat up for 12 rounds.
Boxers would hit Chavez with shots that would knock out anybody else and he would hardly blink. His head would snap back, then it would snap forward and he was still right there not even fazed.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
The glory days of boxing were a little before my time but I can remember enough to have watched some and heard about more from my grandpas. Thomas The Hitman Hearns, Marvelous Marvin, Durand, and Leonard. My grandpas disliked Leonard’s showboating with a passion. One liked Hearns for being a MI product of the other was a “stone hands Durand” fan.
Both my grandparents blamed Ali for making boxing a pay per view sport and wrecking its popularity. I can remember talking about Mike Tyson and Buster Douglas at school and Sunday school when I was about 12. Unfortunately kids today don’t follow it at all.
My friends and I all boxed one another as kids with camcorders rolling to record KO’s. I had an uncle that boxed in the Navy and a buddy that’s brother did golden gloves. Me and a buddy spared at a local gym but that was about it. Nobody talks about “the sweet science” anymore.
I remember boxing being a required P.E. class when I was a cadet at West Point in the mid 80's and thinking to myself at the time how it couldn't be good for the brain to get pounded on like that. . Turns out I was right. With such an awareness these days of the long term effects of brain injury due to concussions, boxing is done. Then, look how popular MMA is nowadays. Not all people are destined to keep their marbles, I guess.
![[Linked Image]](https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/full/190878.jpg)
