Beyond The Glory - Joe Frazier (Documentary)

  

Beyond The Glory - Joe Frazier (Documentary)

https://youtu.be/fGF6jB5L7ng

Maksym Bursak vs David Lemieux

  

Link: https://youtu.be/9TVW-xKfwRM

THE GHETTO WIZARD- Benny Leonard

THE GHETTO WIZARD

A photo of lightweight legend, the great Benny Leonard. The Jewish American ring legend reigned as world champion for 8 years after knocking out ‘Welsh Wizard’ Freddie Welsh in 1917. His reign still stands as the longest in 135 lbs history.

THE SQUARED CIRCLE

@KT_BOXING
#boxing #history

CHRIS EUBANK SR GIVES REALIST ANDY RUIZ VS ANTHONY JOSHUA 2 BREAKDOWN

Great analysis

  

CHRIS EUBANK SR GIVES REALIST ANDY RUIZ VS ANTHONY JOSHUA 2 BREAKDOWN

Link: https://youtu.be/82ComVSHAaY

Joe Louis vs Two Ton Tony Gallento 1939

THE FIRST BOXER WITH AN ANDY RUIZ BODY-TYPE FIGHTING FOR THE HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE

Joe Louis vs Two Ton Tony Gallento 1939

Domenico Antonio Galento (March 12, 1910 – July 22, 1979) was an American heavyweight boxer. Nicknamed "Two Ton" for his reasoning to his manager for being nearly late to one of his fights: "I had two tons of ice to deliver on my way here". 

Galento was one of the most colorful fighters in the history of the sport. He wrestled an octopus, and boxed a kangaroo as publicity stunts for his fights. He also boxed a 550 lb. (250 kg) bear, as a stage attraction.

Link: https://youtu.be/KVcgD7VlmT8

Luis Resto vs Billy Collins Jr

Loaded gloves: the dark story of Luis Resto and his illegal fists

Loaded gloves: the dark story of Luis Resto and his illegal fists



https://www.theversed.com/10494/loaded-gloves-the-dark-story-of-luis-resto-and-his-illegal-fists/#.ePiEnJ3f98


https://youtu.be/kEVdywAtk50



On June 16, 1983 Luis Resto lined up against the undefeated prospect Billy Collins, Jr. at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The fight was the undercard for a bout between Roberto Durán and Davey Moore. What was supposed to be a sideshow to the Durán/Moore encounter, became an assault with a deadly weapon; the end of Billy Collins Jr’s career, and the start of a prison sentence for the disgraced Resto.

Luis Resto was born in Juncos, Puerto Rico, and moved to the Bronx when he was nine years old. His first taste of boxing was pugilistic to say the least; late in his eighth grade year, he elbowed his math teacher in the face, and spent six months in a rehabilitation center for the mentally disturbed. Fortunately for Luis, an uncle decided to sign him up for boxing lessons in a Bronx gym, and the rest is history.


Luis Resto punches Billy Collins Jnr,. Source : All Things Crime

Resto matured into a competent amateur, winning both the 1975 and 1976 147 lb Golden Gloves Open Championships. He turned pro in 1977 and proceeded on the journeyman path, managing a fairly unremarkable 20-8-1 record after six years on the road.

His light-punching style, coupled with the undefeated credentials of his opponent Billy Collins’ Jnr., promised to make this a one-side, uneventful evening. 10 rounds later and the fight is over. Collins’ eyes are swollen shut; Resto has tampered with his gloves. The alarm was raised by Collins’ father and trainer, Billy, Sr., who shook Resto’s hand. Screaming that he thought the gloves had no padding, Collins, Sr. demanded that the New York State Athletic Commission impound the gloves. An investigation discovered that an ounce of padding had been removed from each glove, the barroom equivalent of using a knuckleduster. To think Collins’ was subjected to 10 rounds of this is bad enough–it would later emerge that Resto’s wraps had been hardened in plaster of Paris.


A macabre image of a battered Billy Collins, alongside Luis Resto. Source : Jeff Pearlman

After a month’s investigation, the New York State Boxing Commission determined that Resto’s trainer, Panama Lewis, had removed the padding from Resto’s gloves. The commission suspended Resto’s boxing license for at least a year, stating that Resto should have known the gloves were illegal. Collins, who suffered a torn iris and permanently blurred vision, would never fight again. His career was over and he fell into a downward spiral. He drove his car into a culvert while intoxicated and died a few months after the fight–his father would later speculate that this was a suicide.


Resto’s trainer, Panama Lewis, pictured in 1982. Source : Alcherton

In 1986, Lewis and Resto were both put on trial and found guilty of assault, criminal possession of a weapon (Resto’s hands) and conspiracy. Prosecutors argued that Resto must have known his gloves were illegal, and therefore the bout amounted to an illegal assault. Prosecutors also argued that the plot was centred on a large amount of money bet on Resto by a third party, who had met with Lewis prior to the fight.


‘It was like a bare knuckle fight,”

Eric Drath, Director of “Cornered.”

Resto served two and a half years in prison, and stood by his innocence for almost a quarter-century. However, in 2007, Resto admitted to Collins’ widow, Andrea Collins-Nile, that he had known about the padding, as well as confessing to the use of plaster on his wraps. Resto said he didn’t protest at the time even though he knew it was wrong. “At the time, I was young,” he said. “I went along.”



Robert Mladnich last reported on Resto’s whereabouts in 2008. He was living in an apartment near the gym where he once trained. Billy Collins Jr. died before his 23rd birthday. No doubt a large part of Resto died that evening, but his decision to hide behind a vale of naivety will condemn him till the end; he was 28 when this cowardly act took place.







George Mackenzie
Editor
Part-time work as Tuvalu's World Cup correspondent.




 

Aaron PRYOR vs. Alexis ARGUELLO I | FULL FIGHT HIGHLIGHTS

  

https://www.thefightcity.com/pryor-vs-arguello/

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Nov. 12, 1982: Pryor vs Arguello I

By Michael Carbert · On November 12, 2019

It’s November, 1982 and the sport of boxing is bigger than ever. Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns are all mainstream stars and fight fans enjoy championship matches on free cable TV almost every weekend. Rocky III is a huge hit in theaters and just a few months previous, one of the richest fights of all-time had taken place, Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney. And standing right in the thick of things, not yet a boxing superstar but certainly one of the higher profile champions: Alexis Arguello.

A regular on network television, the Nicaraguan is regarded as not only one of the best boxers on the planet, but an all-time great, only the seventh fighter in the long history of boxing to win three divisional world titles. And that’s what the big battle in Miami’s Orange Bowl was all about: to see if Arguello could make history and emerge as a true immortal, a sports superstar, by becoming the first boxer ever to win world titles in four different weight classes.

Arguello’s chief threat was his powerful right.

The man Arguello had to beat to get that fourth belt was not a household name, but everyone in the game knew Aaron “The Hawk” Pryor was one hell of a fighter. In contrast to popular champions like Leonard and Hearns, Pryor’s whole career had been a struggle for recognition. An outstanding amateur talent with over 200 wins, he dropped a close decision to Howard Davis Jr. in a critical match and so failed to make the team that won a boatload of medals at the ’76 Olympics. Without the fame a gold medal would have brought him, Pryor soon discovered the public was not particularly anxious to buy tickets to his fights.

While some might have been discouraged by this, being the outsider was nothing new for Pryor. He had always been regarded as a misfit, despite the fact no one trained harder and no one fought with more ferocity. Relentless and unorthodox inside the ring, his character outside of it proved erratic and difficult. Once he turned pro, almost no one wanted to manage him and even fewer wanted to fight him. It was so bad he had to abandon the 135 pound weight class and climb up to the super-lightweights to get a title shot. After annihilating veteran champion Antonio Cervantes in four rounds, his hometown of Cincinnati held a parade for him that was literally one car long.

The crowd in the Orange Bowl was treated to a war for the ages.

In stark contrast to Pryor, Alexis Arguello was smooth and charming, both in and out of the ring. An elder statesman and something of a legend, his class and sportsmanship was as admired as his excellent ring technique and lethal power. Boasting a devastating right hand and 62 knockouts in 72 wins, Arguello had the respect and approval of almost everyone in boxing, while the bitter Pryor charmed no one. And unlike Arguello’s refined and studied ring craft, Pryor was wild and unpredictable, constantly darting, lunging, and throwing heavy punches from any position and any angle.

Against Arguello, few thought Pryor would win. More to the point, the public wanted Alexis to succeed and make history, and the stands at the cavernous Orange Bowl in Miami filled up with thousands of Latin-Americans eager to see their hero become a superstar. But the anti-Pryor crowd didn’t bother the champion in the least. People had been tearing Aaron down and telling him he’d never amount to much all his life and he had proven them all wrong. Now he understood that defeat to Arguello would mean being quickly cast aside so more popular boxers could get the big opportunities and the big money. If Arguello was fighting for history, Pryor had an equally potent motivation: to make himself matter.

The intense and thrilling battle that took place that night has only grown in stature over the years; Pryor vs Arguello I is widely viewed as one of the greatest action fights of all time. And it was Pryor who made it a war. From the outset, “The Cincinnati Cyclone” charged at Arguello with one thing on his mind: knockout. The opening round shocked everyone as the champion immediately took Arguello out of his game plan and imposed a ferocious and fast-paced slugfest. It was an opening round to rival that of Hagler vs Hearns, Pryor throwing an amazing 130 punches, the normally patient Arguello not far behind with 108.

Thus the tone and pace of the contest were set; round after fast-paced round rushed by at breakneck speed as the two champions slugged it out. Pryor appeared to have the edge with his faster hands and relentless buzzsaw style, but Arguello’s fans never lost heart because they knew victory was just one clean right hand away. The only problem with this theory was that whenever Pryor got nailed, he just smiled and tore back in for more. Arguello regularly struck with flush overhand or straight rights that would have stunned a rhinoceros, but had little effect on the wild man from Ohio who just never stopped throwing punches.

All were amazed at the sturdiness of Pryor’s chin.

But even wild men are human, and as the bout entered the later rounds, Pryor’s kamikaze attack appeared to wind down. Behind on points and sporting cuts around the eyes, Arguello seized the initiative and began to drive the champion back with his favourite combination, a left hook to the body followed by the right hand upstairs. Rounds 11 and 12 belonged to the challenger and the crowd roared as Pryor appeared to be fading and their hero looked ready to make history. But it was not to be.

The gallant triple-crown champion made his last stand in round 13. The crowd exulted as the challenger dug deep with big left hooks to the body and then blasted Pryor with huge rights hands upstairs, one of which hit Pryor so violently it buckled his knees and had him looking straight up to the skylights above. But the determined champion simply refused to go down. At the end of the round, Alexis must have been asking himself, “What do I have to hit this guy with, a sledgehammer?” And indeed, as round 14 began, Arguello was visibly deflated and fatigued, breathing through his mouth and suddenly there to be hit.

BOXIANA3

Nov. 12, 1982: Pryor vs Arguello I

By Michael Carbert · On November 12, 2019

It’s November, 1982 and the sport of boxing is bigger than ever. Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns are all mainstream stars and fight fans enjoy championship matches on free cable TV almost every weekend. Rocky III is a huge hit in theaters and just a few months previous, one of the richest fights of all-time had taken place, Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney. And standing right in the thick of things, not yet a boxing superstar but certainly one of the higher profile champions: Alexis Arguello.

A regular on network television, the Nicaraguan is regarded as not only one of the best boxers on the planet, but an all-time great, only the seventh fighter in the long history of boxing to win three divisional world titles. And that’s what the big battle in Miami’s Orange Bowl was all about: to see if Arguello could make history and emerge as a true immortal, a sports superstar, by becoming the first boxer ever to win world titles in four different weight classes.

Arguello’s chief threat was his powerful right.

The man Arguello had to beat to get that fourth belt was not a household name, but everyone in the game knew Aaron “The Hawk” Pryor was one hell of a fighter. In contrast to popular champions like Leonard and Hearns, Pryor’s whole career had been a struggle for recognition. An outstanding amateur talent with over 200 wins, he dropped a close decision to Howard Davis Jr. in a critical match and so failed to make the team that won a boatload of medals at the ’76 Olympics. Without the fame a gold medal would have brought him, Pryor soon discovered the public was not particularly anxious to buy tickets to his fights.

While some might have been discouraged by this, being the outsider was nothing new for Pryor. He had always been regarded as a misfit, despite the fact no one trained harder and no one fought with more ferocity. Relentless and unorthodox inside the ring, his character outside of it proved erratic and difficult. Once he turned pro, almost no one wanted to manage him and even fewer wanted to fight him. It was so bad he had to abandon the 135 pound weight class and climb up to the super-lightweights to get a title shot. After annihilating veteran champion Antonio Cervantes in four rounds, his hometown of Cincinnati held a parade for him that was literally one car long.

The crowd in the Orange Bowl was treated to a war for the ages.

In stark contrast to Pryor, Alexis Arguello was smooth and charming, both in and out of the ring. An elder statesman and something of a legend, his class and sportsmanship was as admired as his excellent ring technique and lethal power. Boasting a devastating right hand and 62 knockouts in 72 wins, Arguello had the respect and approval of almost everyone in boxing, while the bitter Pryor charmed no one. And unlike Arguello’s refined and studied ring craft, Pryor was wild and unpredictable, constantly darting, lunging, and throwing heavy punches from any position and any angle.

Against Arguello, few thought Pryor would win. More to the point, the public wanted Alexis to succeed and make history, and the stands at the cavernous Orange Bowl in Miami filled up with thousands of Latin-Americans eager to see their hero become a superstar. But the anti-Pryor crowd didn’t bother the champion in the least. People had been tearing Aaron down and telling him he’d never amount to much all his life and he had proven them all wrong. Now he understood that defeat to Arguello would mean being quickly cast aside so more popular boxers could get the big opportunities and the big money. If Arguello was fighting for history, Pryor had an equally potent motivation: to make himself matter.

The intense and thrilling battle that took place that night has only grown in stature over the years; Pryor vs Arguello I is widely viewed as one of the greatest action fights of all time. And it was Pryor who made it a war. From the outset, “The Cincinnati Cyclone” charged at Arguello with one thing on his mind: knockout. The opening round shocked everyone as the champion immediately took Arguello out of his game plan and imposed a ferocious and fast-paced slugfest. It was an opening round to rival that of Hagler vs Hearns, Pryor throwing an amazing 130 punches, the normally patient Arguello not far behind with 108.

Thus the tone and pace of the contest were set; round after fast-paced round rushed by at breakneck speed as the two champions slugged it out. Pryor appeared to have the edge with his faster hands and relentless buzzsaw style, but Arguello’s fans never lost heart because they knew victory was just one clean right hand away. The only problem with this theory was that whenever Pryor got nailed, he just smiled and tore back in for more. Arguello regularly struck with flush overhand or straight rights that would have stunned a rhinoceros, but had little effect on the wild man from Ohio who just never stopped throwing punches.

All were amazed at the sturdiness of Pryor’s chin.

But even wild men are human, and as the bout entered the later rounds, Pryor’s kamikaze attack appeared to wind down. Behind on points and sporting cuts around the eyes, Arguello seized the initiative and began to drive the champion back with his favourite combination, a left hook to the body followed by the right hand upstairs. Rounds 11 and 12 belonged to the challenger and the crowd roared as Pryor appeared to be fading and their hero looked ready to make history. But it was not to be.

The gallant triple-crown champion made his last stand in round 13. The crowd exulted as the challenger dug deep with big left hooks to the body and then blasted Pryor with huge rights hands upstairs, one of which hit Pryor so violently it buckled his knees and had him looking straight up to the skylights above. But the determined champion simply refused to go down. At the end of the round, Alexis must have been asking himself, “What do I have to hit this guy with, a sledgehammer?” And indeed, as round 14 began, Arguello was visibly deflated and fatigued, breathing through his mouth and suddenly there to be hit.

“The Hawk” never stopped attacking.

Pryor immediately took advantage. He stunned Arguello with a left, staggered him with a right, then softened him up with a series of jabs before smashing home a thunderous right hand that could have caved in a side of the Orange Bowl. Arguello’s whole body buckled and will alone kept him upright as he skittered backwards to the ropes. Pryor pounced and connected with more than a dozen flush power shots before the referee finally jumped in to stop it and Alexis crumbled to the canvas. After 14 furious rounds, Pryor had halted Arguello’s bid for fistic immortality.

And yet even this victory, the biggest of his life, the critics and detractors tried to take from Pryor. Before the final round, his trainer, Panama Lewis, later convicted of tampering with a boxer’s gloves and subsequently banned from boxing, had been overheard asking for a special water bottle, “the one [he] mixed,” and in the bout’s aftermath everyone offered up their preferred stimulant as the secret ingredient.

Aaron Pryor: Ink drawing by Damien Burton.

As if that really had anything to do with the outcome. As if Pryor needed the help of any dirty tricks to win. As if he had not clearly demonstrated that no one short of King Kong was going to beat him that night, because the champion, who had given the greatest performance of his career, knew: defeat was not an option. Or as Pryor himself put it a few days before this electrifying war that will never be forgotten: “If he loses, he’s still a champion. But if I lose it’s over. For me, it’s either $4.95 an hour or world champion. Everything’s on the line for me.”        — Michael Carbert

Panama Lewis - Assault in the Ring

Carlos "Panama" Lewis (born November 4, 1945) is an American boxing trainer. 

He was convicted of tampering with the gloves of Luis Resto in the Resto vs "Irish" Billy Collins fight of 1983, which subsequently led to the end of Collins' boxing career. 

Collins suffered from depression and possibly committed suicide following the tragic assault.[1]
 

Lewis was a disciple of trainer Chickie Ferrara. He was Roberto Durán's cornerman when Duran lost a unanimous decision against Wilfred Benitez in 1982.

During the early 1980s, he was considered one of the best trainers of his time, compared with Emanuel Steward and Lou Duva. 

The most noted boxer in his stable was light-welterweight champion Aaron Pryor. 

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Nov. 12, 1982: Pryor vs Arguello I    
 https://images.app.goo.gl/nw1jDVo6HddhK6p79


In 1982, Pryor fought Alexis Argüello. Before the fourteenth round, a cornerman held up a plastic water bottle, but HBO cameras caught Lewis yelling, "Not that bottle, the one I mixed." 

Pryor knocked out Arguello, but Lewis' comments fueled rumors that the bottle contained stimulants. 

Lewis said it only contained Perrier and tap water, in line with rules allowing boxers to consume only water in the ring. 

Although Lewis was never formally sanctioned, the incident sullied his reputation, which was confirmed by his cheating discovered in subsequent fights.  

It was later alleged in an interview with former Lewis-trained boxer Luis Resto in the HBO documentary film 'Assault in the Ring,' that 

Lewis would break apart pills used to treat asthma and pour the medicine into the water, giving Resto greater lung capacity in the later rounds of a fight.

Resto–Collins controversy

^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Lewis}

Assault in the Ring - Official Site
Assault in the Ring*  is a 2008 sports documentary film about a 
controversial boxing match held at Madison Square Garden on June 16, 1983.
[1]
 
*(formerly Cornered: A Life in the Ring)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_in_the_Ring

ASIAN BOXING - Takuma Inoue Vs Petch Sor Chitpattana

ASIAN BOXING

Takuma Inoue Vs Petch Sor Chitpattana





Link: http://www.asianboxing.info/videos/takuma-inoue-vs-petch-sor-chitpattana

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https://youtu.be/laESHnSi7iI

Deontay Wilder vs Luis Ortiz 2 Knockout (Slow Motion)

Deontay Wilder vs Luis Ortiz 2 Knockout (Slow Motion)





Link: https://youtu.be/AcX5dAOzkqg

Right Hand Wrecking Ball

Buster Drayton vs Julian Jackson

Buster Drayton vs Julian Jackson





https://youtu.be/mwXnNVRF_3Q

Postcard Signed, Best Of Luck, Jack Dempsey sent to Mike Tyson

Postcard Signed
 Best Of Luck, Jack Dempsey sent to Mike Tyson]

 

 
Postcard , Best Of Luck, Jack Dempsey sent to Mike Tyson
 

How Kovalev Threw the Canelo Fight ... Fixed Fight Film Study

   

How Kovalev Threw the Canelo Fight ... Fixed Fight Film Study

If you disagree, feel free to tell me why Kovalev all of a sudden made ALL the "mistakes" he is not known to make. Do explain to me why he fought like a bum.



https://youtu.be/txxKUnmvDVk

Kings of The Ring (Rare Documentary)

 

Rare BBC Documentary about the "Kings of the Ring"

Tags: joe louis frazier jack dempsey larry holmes johnson marvin hagler sugar ray leonard roy jones the greatest fighter in the world boxing documentary junior bernard hopkins wladimir vitali klitschko klitchko knockout highlight compilation best video mike tyson muhammad ali manny pacquiao floyd mayweather nonito donaire narvaez sugar ray robinson ray leonard marvin hagler roberto duran amir khan david haye joe calzaghe gene tunney

https://youtu.be/I8wIyrRPn-M

Andy Ruiz jr - First Mexican WBO IBF IBO WBA Heavyweight Champion of the World.

Dream big and work hard

Dream big and work hard is the only option to achieve your dreams and goals.

AndyRuizjr

@Andy_destroyer1

First Mexican WBO IBF IBO WBA Heavyweight Champion of the World.  

@andy_destroyer13

Anthony Joshua : “ Andy Ruiz is a smiling assassin"

  

Tuffist Fat Guy on the Planet: 

ANDY RUIZ FASTER?! 

MORE POWER?!

K.O. Artist Sports

   

#ANDYRUIZ

 #ANTHONYJOSHUA

 #RUIZJOSHUA2

   

https://www.youtube.com/KOARTISTSPORTS

Link: https://youtu.be/3dc5poRry-Q

ANDY RUIZ FASTER?! MORE POWER?! IS ANTHONY JOSHUA IN MORE TROUBLE ..

ANDY RUIZ FASTER?! MORE POWER?! IS ANTHONY JOSHUA IN MORE TROUBLE




K.O. Artist Sports   




#ANDYRUIZ #ANTHONYJOSHUA #RUIZJOSHUA2   

https://www.youtube.com/KOARTISTSPORTS





Link: https://youtu.be/3dc5poRry-Q

Kovalev made the bargain of the decade selling his championship belt to CANELLO for a reported $12 million.

Kovalev made the bargain of the decade selling his championship belt to CANELLO for a reported $12 million. 

 Danny Williams ko'd Iron Mike in Tyson's final humiliation.  

Williams has no title to bargain for a big pay day and beating him has little value to a fighter on the rise.

Boxers get desperate when their talent is spent, looking for a break: a way to make a $core.  This is why Sergei Kovalev was smart to get a big payday and hopefully, he will retire.  Andre gave Sergei his fist loss and said he thought SK was 70% the fighter he was when he was called Krusher.  He was no longer throwing his signature straight right.   

Typically, boxers like Williams are unfulfilled, unrealized, frustrated, passive, apathetic and broke financially.  They come to believe that they are unable to control or change their situation, so they do not try — even when opportunities for change become available.   They take another fight, risking injury to earn a paltry sum.    

After a person has experienced a stressful situation repeatedly, they come to believe that they are unable to control or change the situation, so they do not try.  Their mental state is learned helplessness which is related to the concept of self-efficacy, the individual's belief in their innate ability to achieve goals.  Learned helplessness theory is the view that clinical depression and related mental illnesses may result from such real or perceived absence of control over the outcome of a situation. 

 Remember Anthony Quinn as Mountain Rivera, a punchy has-been managed by the unprincipled Maish (Jackie Gleason) in Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) 

The British Boxing Board tells heavyweight Danny Williams to walk away before getting hurt ...

“There’s only a few guys that I fight who can actually do anything. I can tell that they’re rubbish and even when I lose, it’s only because I’m totally shot. Most of these guys couldn’t have been my sparring partner back in the day. They’re so rubbish – but still they beat me.”  

“I’m taking each fight as it comes. I should have retired like ten years ago, probably nineteen years ago”, admitted Williams, “But I need to take each fight as it comes. Most of the time I get last minute notice for fights. Normally I’m always training. I’ve got to train because you never know when the phone is gonna ring. I was the home fighter on those shows [in the Czech Republic]. On the fight before last, I was the away fighter, though.”

But what else can he do?

“I continue fighting for money, money, money… I had two daughters in private school it was like £29k plus per year, I’ve got a mortgage to pay and this is the only way of me doing it. One daughter is twenty, so she’s left and she’s at Uni now, and the other has a year left [of school].”

Source: http://boxing-social.com/features/exclusive-danny-williams-finish-line/

 
This was the man who knocked out Mike Tyson.  
Williams, the former British and Commonwealth champion ...



  
https://www.telegraph.co.uk › sport › other sports › British-Boxing-Board-tell...

Mar 31, 2011 - British Boxing Board tell heavyweight Danny Williams to walk away before getting hurt ... Williams, the former British and Commonwealth champion, has ...  
Danny Williams v Mike Tyson

https://youtu.be/my5r0h7BXis  

HIGHLIGHTS | Canelo vs. Sergey Kovalev
https://youtu.be/qjsU5876iB0

RESTORED: Requiem for a Heavyweight - Playhouse 90 (1956)

RESTORED: Requiem for a Heavyweight - Playhouse 90 (1956)

Playhouse 90 Season 1, Episode 2. The episode that helped establish Playhouse 90 as the pinnacle of live television drama. Restored from film kinescope copies back to it's original live video appearance, now you can see this show as it was originally intended.

Link: https://youtu.be/_el9xm6pxW4

Anthony Quinn in Requiem for a Heavyweight

  

Playhouse 90 - Requiem for a Heavyweight

A professional heavyweight boxer is burned out after fourteen years in the ring. When during his last fight he is sold out by his devious manager, he struggles to find new meaning in his life. 

No copyright infringement intended. I only want to make sure those that haven't seen this version of the play have the chance to. It's one of the more amazing pieces of television ever produced. If you like this program please purchase the Golden age of Television DVD's from Criterion.

Link: https://youtu.be/9B0h2Anklbo

Danny Williams – The Finish Line?

EXCLUSIVE: Danny Williams – The Finish Line? 

By Craig Scott 2nd November 2019




“There’s only a few guys that I fight who can actually do anything. I can tell that they’re rubbish and even when I lose, it’s only because I’m totally shot. Most of these guys couldn’t have been my sparring partner back in the day. They’re so rubbish – but still they beat me.”

He doesn’t do social media. In fact, he doesn’t do much else. Pitching up to venues like the Baluan Sholak Sports Centre, in Kazakhstan, has become the norm now, filling pages in his passport and soaking swollen hands in buckets of ice. It’s easy to forget the mammoth British showdowns with Audley Harrison, Michael Sprott, Matt Skelton and Julius Francis – but Williams continues making it easier with every outing. He knows that. But what else can he do?

“I continue fighting for money, money, money… I had two daughters in private school it was like £29k plus per year, I’ve got a mortgage to pay and this is the only way of me doing it. One daughter is twenty, so she’s left and she’s at Uni now, and the other has a year left [of school].”

After Boxing News’ compassionate campaign to stop Danny boxing earlier this year, he has fought a further twice. Two knockout defeats followed a run of five victories – four by stoppage. You and I both know those fights mean nothing, but they continue breathing air into the lungs of a man approaching fifty. He doesn’t hope for world titles or widespread success. He just wants to pay his bills, the same as everybody else, yet sadly has to scrape himself off the canvas in countries far-

and-wide to do so.

 

Boxing doesn’t have a history of care for retired fighters. Neither does it prepare them for success or educate them on the dangers of men in suits, with greasy palms. Danny has been paid handsomely for fights, but nobody helped him. He’d probably made mistakes financially along the way, but his intentions were pure now, sitting draped in an all black tracksuit and being interrupted by hotel staff, merely a shadow of his former self.

This was the man who knocked out Mike Tyson.

“I’m taking each fight as it comes. I should have retired like ten years ago, probably nineteen years ago”, admitted Williams, “But I need to take each fight as it comes. Most of the time I get last minute notice for fights. Normally I’m always training. I’ve got to train because you never know when the phone is gonna ring. I was the home fighter on those shows [in the Czech Republic]. On the fight before last, I was the away fighter, though.”  

It wasn’t so much the phone ringing that concerned former fans of ‘The Brixton Bomber’, but more the uncertainty that surrounds it stopping. Aged forty-six, he’s waiting on his next fight being announced and although it’s easy to condemn those who end up sanctioning and promoting it, the former World title challenger is driven by a sense of responsibility. He needs to provide.

By his own admission, he is ‘shot’ and should have retired almost two decades ago. I couldn’t help thinking that in a year’s time, Danny would pop up again, battling a young Eastern European in a tiny leisure centre. He wasn’t the same fighter that battled on with his shoulder hanging out of its socket, infact, he wasn’t even the same man that was stopped by former lightweight, Lee McAllister.

Anybody in a position to help him financially, or with honest, safe work, should be forthcoming, because it hasn’t been easy to find. Begging a warrior to stop fighting falls on deaf ears when he finds no alternative, so let’s give him one.

For that fight with ‘Iron Mike’; For those wild bouts with his domestic rivals; For his brave challenge in Las Vegas, taking on Vitali Klitschko; Most importantly, for himself and for his family.

“I’d like to be remembered as a crazy fighter. I want people to say that I showed up with a massive heart. I want people to know I didn’t fulfil my true potential – I did really well – but I didn’t fulfil my potential. I wish I was around now… because of the money they’re earning.”

Interview written by: Craig Scott

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Perched awkwardly on the edge of a seat in a hotel in Riga, Latvia, former British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Danny Williams (53-28, 40KOs) was prepared to face the unheralded Kristaps Zutis. He spoke in a gentle whisper, open and honest, unlike the sport he’d dedicated his life to.

It had been fifteen years since he challenged Vitali Klitschko for the World heavyweight title, losing valiantly in the eighth round. He was thirty-one years old then, and now, approaching his 82nd fight, claimed that he was always ready, just hoping for the phone to ring. The Arena Riga was far less grandiose than the Mandalay Bay Casino, Las Vegas and the ‘Brixton Bomber’ was only a fragment of the fighter who bludgeoned Mike Tyson to a fourth round stoppage.

Danny lost days later in Latvia – knocked out in the first round. Again.

“I’ve fought in eighteen countries, yeah”, he explained. “It’s come naturally [the travelling]. I’ve gotta keep my daughters in private school, man, so it has to be done. London, as you know, is very violent now. I don’t want my daughters around that kinda stuff. They have a private education, a good social life and that’s all that’s important.”

“I grew up in a very violent area like Brixton. People bringing guns to my house. It’s totally different now. The gentrification process has happened, it’s all trendy now in Brixton. All the gangsters are gone now – locked up in prison or dead. But it’s strange there now.”

Williams finds himself stuck between a rock a hard place. Forking out tens of thousands of pounds for his children was to be commended, though it had left him scrambling for cash, quite literally. Boxing was the only thing he could rely on, though, as is often the case. Familiarity breeds contempt. Fighting on shows in obscure locations against opponents you’ll never hear of again has covered some of his costs, with boxing washing its hands of any consequence on his health.