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RIP Hank Aaron

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  • NorthwestFresh
    NorthwestFresh Member Posts: 7,972
    PurpleThrobber said:

    RaceBannon said:

    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.
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  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,192
    PurpleThrobber said:

    RaceBannon said:

    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...

    50s, 40s, 30s and 20s. The 3 biggest sports in the US used to be Baseball, Boxing and Horse Racing.
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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,853 Swaye's Wigwam
    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
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  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,192
    Do you mean like this?


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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,853 Swaye's Wigwam
    oops CHUMP

    spell check doesn't check for logic I guess
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,242
    SFGbob said:

    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

    The record is still 755
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  • NorthwestFresh
    NorthwestFresh Member Posts: 7,972
    Inspiration noted. They killed the man.

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  • IceManLikeGervin
    IceManLikeGervin Member Posts: 331
    edited January 2021
    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

    Hank Aaron, Home Run King Who Defied Racism, Dies at 86 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/sports/baseball/hank-aaron-dead.html

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nhdNvNg60M
    Sports Century Documentary- Hank Aaron

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m66lmbROA58
    Biography: Hank Aaron Baseball Player & Civil Rights Activist
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  • dflea
    dflea Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,287 Swaye's Wigwam
    RaceBannon said:

    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.
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  • NorthwestFresh
    NorthwestFresh Member Posts: 7,972
    dflea said:

    RaceBannon said:

    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.

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