I grew up with boxing and big fights and never got into MMA but isn't MMA far more popular among the younger generations?
The heavyweight title fight was always a big event up through Tyson. Even middleweights like Hagler, Hearns, and Sugar Ray
It just seems HARD to get traction these days.
Boxing was the motherfucking shit in the 60's/70's/80's. Olympic boxing was AMAZING. Tacoma's own Davey Armstrong USA! USA! USA!
Wide World Of Sports with the recorded versions of Ali fights. The Throbber just sprung a boner (TMI). Good times...
One of my first sports memories was watching Larry Holmes TKO Ali. A few years later the Tex Cobb near-killing on national TV occurred and boxing was shunned to cable on PPV. That same month there was the Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini fight in Vegas where Duk Koo-Kim does in the ring and it took a few years until Tyson arrived on the scene to get boxing going again.
Howard Cosell never called another boxing match after the Cobb fight. I was six years old and still remember all the blood.
I was lucky enough to see Larry Holmes fight in Atlantic City early 80's. Sat about 40 - 60 feet from ringside. Entire card was light heavy and heavy weight fights. When those guys land a punch you feel the concussion that close.
I called it 'white chimp of the month club' for Holmes. I think he got stripped of the WBC title and the IBF started up about that time. He was 42-0 IIRC
Is there a person over 50 who didn't know the number of HRs Ruth had hit? Now tell me what the current HR record is and how many 10 year old school kids today do you think know that number. We all knew what the number 714 meant back in the early 70s as did every school kid since the 1930s
All of you people that post racist posts up in here, support casual societal racism and racist social policies-politicians in America are somehow giving condolences to Hank Aaron? Hank Aaron had to deal with his share of racist people like y'all up in here during his baseball career and life...RIP
I grew up with boxing and big fights and never got into MMA but isn't MMA far more popular among the younger generations?
The heavyweight title fight was always a big event up through Tyson. Even middleweights like Hagler, Hearns, and Sugar Ray
It just seems HARD to get traction these days.
The fights back in the day were great. They were great because of the boxers.
Hearns Hagler Leonard Chavez Duran Aguello Pryor Ali Holmes Norton Frazier Holmes Foreman Tyson Holyfield
So many great fights between those guys. Loads of thrill of victory and agony of defeat.
Aaron “The Hawk” Pryor was my favorite boxer on those ABC Saturday afternoon fights. He was a small welterweight version of Mike Tyson before there was Tyson.
All of you people that post racist posts up in here, support casual societal racism and racist social policies-politicians in America are somehow giving condolences to Hank Aaron? Hank Aaron had to deal with his share of racist people like y'all up in here during his baseball career and life...RIP
I grew up with boxing and big fights and never got into MMA but isn't MMA far more popular among the younger generations?
The heavyweight title fight was always a big event up through Tyson. Even middleweights like Hagler, Hearns, and Sugar Ray
It just seems HARD to get traction these days.
The fights back in the day were great. They were great because of the boxers.
Hearns Hagler Leonard Chavez Duran Aguello Pryor Ali Holmes Norton Frazier Holmes Foreman Tyson Holyfield
So many great fights between those guys. Loads of thrill of victory and agony of defeat.
Aaron “The Hawk” Pryor was my favorite boxer on those ABC Saturday afternoon fights. He was a small welterweight version of Mike Tyson before there was Tyson.
Pryor got the water bottle his trainer "mixed" when he fought Arguello. lol
I grew up with boxing and big fights and never got into MMA but isn't MMA far more popular among the younger generations?
The heavyweight title fight was always a big event up through Tyson. Even middleweights like Hagler, Hearns, and Sugar Ray
It just seems HARD to get traction these days.
The fights back in the day were great. They were great because of the boxers.
Hearns Hagler Leonard Chavez Duran Aguello Pryor Ali Holmes Norton Frazier Holmes Foreman Tyson Holyfield
So many great fights between those guys. Loads of thrill of victory and agony of defeat.
Aaron “The Hawk” Pryor was my favorite boxer on those ABC Saturday afternoon fights. He was a small welterweight version of Mike Tyson before there was Tyson.
Pryor got the water bottle his trainer "mixed" when he fought Arguello. lol
Hank Aaron was criminally underrated by the masses as a player for a number of reasons ...
He didn’t play in a major market like Mantle/Mays
He didn’t have the outwardly engaging personality or flair that Willie Mays had
And unquestionably he was underrated because of the color of his skin
That said, anybody that is a fan of the history of the game knows how great Hank Aaron was. He was arguably the greatest living player at the time of his death (along with Willie Mays).
Perhaps the thing that stands out to me is that I’ve never heard anybody tied into the game of baseball say a bad word about Hank Aaron. In the end, that’s fairly telling.
Simply the best. He was a God when I was a kid. And then you got older and realized all the shit that He had to go through. Hank’s grace and class was as great as his bat. Always a great ambassador for the game. Probably the best ever in that regard as well. And lord knows He had little reason to be. But He always put the game before himself. Amazing Man.
I grew up with boxing and big fights and never got into MMA but isn't MMA far more popular among the younger generations?
The heavyweight title fight was always a big event up through Tyson. Even middleweights like Hagler, Hearns, and Sugar Ray
It just seems HARD to get traction these days.
The fights back in the day were great. They were great because of the boxers.
Hearns Hagler Leonard Chavez Duran Aguello Pryor Ali Holmes Norton Frazier Holmes Foreman Tyson Holyfield
So many great fights between those guys. Loads of thrill of victory and agony of defeat.
Aaron “The Hawk” Pryor was my favorite boxer on those ABC Saturday afternoon fights. He was a small welterweight version of Mike Tyson before there was Tyson.
Pryor got the water bottle his trainer "mixed" when he fought Arguello. lol
That fight was unbelievable.
Arguello was robbed I tell ya
You douches shitting on Hanks thread jizzin over 2nd rate boxers is brand for the Tug for sure.
I grew up with boxing and big fights and never got into MMA but isn't MMA far more popular among the younger generations?
The heavyweight title fight was always a big event up through Tyson. Even middleweights like Hagler, Hearns, and Sugar Ray
It just seems HARD to get traction these days.
The fights back in the day were great. They were great because of the boxers.
Hearns Hagler Leonard Chavez Duran Aguello Pryor Ali Holmes Norton Frazier Holmes Foreman Tyson Holyfield
So many great fights between those guys. Loads of thrill of victory and agony of defeat.
Aaron “The Hawk” Pryor was my favorite boxer on those ABC Saturday afternoon fights. He was a small welterweight version of Mike Tyson before there was Tyson.
Pryor got the water bottle his trainer "mixed" when he fought Arguello. lol
That fight was unbelievable.
Arguello was robbed I tell ya
You douches shitting on Hanks thread jizzin over 2nd rate boxers is brand for the Tug for sure.
That's called subliminal racism...even in death Hank Aaron faces racism by the living.
Simply the best. He was a God when I was a kid. And then you got older and realized all the shit that He had to go through. Hank’s grace and class was as great as his bat. Always a great ambassador for the game. Probably the best ever in that regard as well. And lord knows He had little reason to be. But He always put the game before himself. Amazing Man.
When I was really young a neighbor knew of my love for sports and gave me a baseball encyclopedia from 1968 ... still one of the coolest things I’ve owned.
One of the things I’d do would go year by year leveraging the stats (because I’ve always been a numbers person) to make up who I thought were effectively the All Star teams each year.
There have been a number of greats and many that have put up great numbers ... but few put up the consistent numbers year in and year out that Hank Aaron did.
Simply the best. He was a God when I was a kid. And then you got older and realized all the shit that He had to go through. Hank’s grace and class was as great as his bat. Always a great ambassador for the game. Probably the best ever in that regard as well. And lord knows He had little reason to be. But He always put the game before himself. Amazing Man.
When I was really young a neighbor knew of my love for sports and gave me a baseball encyclopedia from 1968 ... still one of the coolest things I’ve owned.
One of the things I’d do would go year by year leveraging the stats (because I’ve always been a numbers person) to make up who I thought were effectively the All Star teams each year.
There have been a number of greats and many that have put up great numbers ... but few put up the consistent numbers year in and year out that Hank Aaron did.
Random question. Did you ever play Strat-o-Matic baseball? My cousins and an discovered it in the mid-80s at an uncle’s house and it became a staple of family gatherings.
Simply the best. He was a God when I was a kid. And then you got older and realized all the shit that He had to go through. Hank’s grace and class was as great as his bat. Always a great ambassador for the game. Probably the best ever in that regard as well. And lord knows He had little reason to be. But He always put the game before himself. Amazing Man.
When I was really young a neighbor knew of my love for sports and gave me a baseball encyclopedia from 1968 ... still one of the coolest things I’ve owned.
One of the things I’d do would go year by year leveraging the stats (because I’ve always been a numbers person) to make up who I thought were effectively the All Star teams each year.
There have been a number of greats and many that have put up great numbers ... but few put up the consistent numbers year in and year out that Hank Aaron did.
Random question. Did you ever play Strat-o-Matic baseball? My cousins and an discovered it in the mid-80s at an uncle’s house and it became a staple of family gatherings.
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Howard Cosell never called another boxing match after the Cobb fight. I was six years old and still remember all the blood.
I called it 'white chimp of the month club' for Holmes. I think he got stripped of the WBC title and the IBF started up about that time. He was 42-0 IIRC
spell check doesn't check for logic I guess
Hank Aaron, Home Run King Who Defied Racism, Dies at 86 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/sports/baseball/hank-aaron-dead.html
Sports Century Documentary- Hank Aaron
Biography: Hank Aaron Baseball Player & Civil Rights Activist
Hearns
Hagler
Leonard
Chavez
Duran
Aguello
Pryor
Ali
Holmes
Norton
Frazier
Holmes
Foreman
Tyson
Holyfield
So many great fights between those guys. Loads of thrill of victory and agony of defeat.
Performance art.
That fight was unbelievable.
He didn’t play in a major market like Mantle/Mays
He didn’t have the outwardly engaging personality or flair that Willie Mays had
And unquestionably he was underrated because of the color of his skin
That said, anybody that is a fan of the history of the game knows how great Hank Aaron was. He was arguably the greatest living player at the time of his death (along with Willie Mays).
Perhaps the thing that stands out to me is that I’ve never heard anybody tied into the game of baseball say a bad word about Hank Aaron. In the end, that’s fairly telling.
One of the things I’d do would go year by year leveraging the stats (because I’ve always been a numbers person) to make up who I thought were effectively the All Star teams each year.
There have been a number of greats and many that have put up great numbers ... but few put up the consistent numbers year in and year out that Hank Aaron did.