Duane Bobick

[Willow The Wisp]

That is quite the list. Did you make this yourself or find it somewhere? I only ask because it is missing a relatively recent name. Baby Joe Mesi. Why this stuck out to me I have no idea.

Get a litte buzz on during a rare quiet moment during the holidays = Compile lists of dubious importance.

Baby Joe's debut was 97' but 2001 was the year he really emerged as a prospect to watch, with scalps like shopworn Jorge Luis Gonzalez and Smokin' Bert Cooper. The list cuts off before 2000.
I did miss Rudi Lubbers, Netherlands though.
Mesi was pretty good; and forever undefeated. He got ripped off - But was NOT a ring tragedy! Thank God.

[Willow The Wisp]

Bobick was good too. Not great, we all know, but far better than what we saw in his losses to Norton, Tate, Knoetze. He did nothing spectacular and nothing badly, except for a penchant for eating looping right hands and starting slowly. But in the amateurs he whipped Teofilo Stevenson at the 71' Pan-Am games and the following year he whipped Larry Holmes for a spot on the USA Olympic team (where he rematched Stevenson and lost). In the pros he went 38-0-0 and whipped Bunny Johnson, Chuck Wepner and Scott LeDoux- all ranked heavyweights. He also boasts a distinguished military career and held big promise and wide public appeal in the 70s as Quarry had in the 60s, Cooney in the 80s and Morrison in the 90s. Much respect.

[QueensburyRules]

Get a litte buzz on during a rare quiet moment during the holidays = Compile lists of dubious importance.

Baby Joe's debut was 97' but 2001 was the year he really emerged as a prospect to watch, with scalps like shopworn Jorge Luis Gonzalez and Smokin' Bert Cooper. The list cuts off before 2000.
I did miss Rudi Lubbers, Netherlands though.
Mesi was pretty good; and forever undefeated. He got ripped off - But was NOT a ring tragedy! Thank God.

- - Had the AOL boys sputtering on their own spittle when Baby Joe become the #1 ranked Heavy on boxrec as their Old World Order kaputskyed with a monumental racket to FULL STOP!!!

What happened to Bobick: he signed to be managed by Joe Frazier who probably pushed Futch into making him more into a nonstop punching machine like Joe. And while the Norton match was a good one for Bobick's natural talents, he was victimized by an odd, one off punch that made him the butt of late night comedy.

He never recovered his mojo, but what he did to Ali and Lar on the same day is priceless FOREVER...

[Willow The Wisp]

- - Had the AOL boys sputtering on their own spittle when Baby Joe become the #1 ranked Heavy on boxrec as their Old World Order kaputskyed with a monumental racket to FULL STOP!!!

What happened to Bobick: he signed to be managed by Joe Frazier who probably pushed Futch into making him more into a nonstop punching machine like Joe. And while the Norton match was a good one for Bobick's natural talents, he was victimized by an odd, one off punch that made him the butt of late night comedy.

He never recovered his mojo, but what he did to Ali and Lar on the same day is priceless FOREVER...

Great post. Both parts.

[Willow The Wisp]

Bobick was intended to play the role that went to Leon Spinks, who won a golden globe for his portrayal of the Afterali folk legend.