Awsome!....this guy was hilarious when he fought...does anybody know what happened to butterbean?
Well his best moments are on ESPN Classic right now
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what an athletic specimen right there
He makes the post Burger King version of James Toney look like he needs to eat more.
He came to Australia about 3 years ago and fought a guy call 'Bad' Baden Oui, some Islander bum with a record of 7-4-2 or something, he was supposed to fight Big Bob.
For the record Oui won a decision.
It was a 10 rounder and Bean got credited with a knockdown on a slip in the 10th round and Holmes got pissed off after screwing around for 9.5 rounds and started teeing off.
Holy crap don't tell me you've seen this recently or more than once. You poor poor bastard.
Or was the Holmes fight even a 12 rounder. I just remember thinking this is an awful circus event Butterbean shouldn't be in the same ring as Holmes, but at the same time I was praying he stayed away from that fat ass monster.
It was a 10 rounder and Bean got credited with a knockdown on a slip in the 10th round and Holmes got pissed off after screwing around for 9.5 rounds and started teeing off.
Or was the Holmes fight even a 12 rounder. I just remember thinking this is an awful circus event Butterbean shouldn't be in the same ring as Holmes, but at the same time I was praying he stayed away from that fat ass monster.
yea he was like a side show act...i dont remember if the holmes fight was 12 rounds i know he schooled butterbean....and YES!!! its like a 3 part series....
tonight was the "best" of butterbean part 2, i was like huh?
Or was the Holmes fight even a 12 rounder. I just remember thinking this is an awful circus event Butterbean shouldn't be in the same ring as Holmes, but at the same time I was praying he stayed away from that fat ass monster.
Good Lord that Best of Butterbean was actually long as PHUCK! Everyone makes the "Oh is it 3 minutes?" joke, but NO IT'S LIKE A 3 PART SERIES! I keep deleting that crap off my DVR, and it keeps finding its way back on there. I lost some good fights cause my DVR had to find space for that god awful series... So uhh, being that I never watched it... is it actually good? I seen like 10 of his fights, the WWF stunts, the Larry Holmes fight (If I remember right Larry went down in the 12th but won a fairly clear and easy decision), and some awful espn fights. He hits hard but... it's freakin butterbean man.
no love for butterbean?No, he was a joke. He was barely more credible than Mark Gastineu. All of Eric Esch's fights were 4 rounders except for one (where he got toasted by an 94 y/o Larry Holmes). I'll admit a guilty pleasure in watching him punch Johnny Knoxville and KO that wrestler, but besides that he was a black eye for the sport in terms of credibility.