The Great Michael McCallum

[billeau2]

McCallum is an interesting fighter from a historical perspective: for a while he became the pro verbial witty rejoinder at the boxing wine and cheese party... "I like mike Tyson" "Yeah! Roy Jones!!" "ahem! Perhaps you gentlemen have heard of the body snatcher?"

This sort of membership into the boxing club for those who knew McCallum did have the effect of allowing people to look at a truly superb fighter. Look at this fight against Julian Jackson (POSTED BELOW): McCallum does so many things so well. Defensively watch his use of angles, head movement and timing... His ability to throw a well placed jab and freeze JJ for a second and then... right to the body. McCallum's hand placement, so that against one of the hardest punchers, his chin and side of face is always protected by his glove & arm, or tucking the chin... He is always moving off line, but not straight back enough to get caught... Just enough to circle and make an angle.

When he gets JJ in trouble he patiently breaks the body down until JJ is literally turning into other shots to avoid the punishing body blows, eventually being cut down like a tree.

Here is the fight: https://********/jHpiqJD2DfA

McCallum at his best did so many things so well... One of the very best body punchers and on a short list of great Middle Weights.

[Rockin']

Did you know that McCallum used to fight out of Kronk?


By JEFFREY T. SHAIN
PHOENIX -- Mike McCallum, who left the Kronk Gym in a dispute with Emanuel Steward over the handling of his career, got a measure of revenge.

'This should give me the respect I deserve,' McCallum said after scoring a 10th-round technical knockout of Kronk's Milton McCrory to retain his World Boxing Association junior middleweight title.

McCallum split with Steward in 1984 after the Kronk manager arranged a fight between Roberto Duran and Kronk's Thomas Hearns. McCallum felt the fight should have been his, but Steward has said that Duran would never fight McCallum.

McCallum then hooked up with Lou Duva and won his title in 1984 with a knockout of Sean Mannion.

Sunday's victory was McCallum's fifth successful title defense, and none couldn't be sweeter for him. In beating a Kronk fighter, McCallum was able to get back at his former manager.

'I've got no animosity with anybody at the Kronk stable, with the exception of Steward,' McCallum said.

But it may be the last title defense in that division for McCallum. The champion, who reportedly had trouble making the 154-pound weight before weighing in 1/4-pound under the limit, had announced before the fight that he would move up into the middleweight division.



McCallum, who raised his record to 31-0 with 28 knockouts, started slowly, but eventually began taking control of the middle rounds.

'Milt gave me a tough fight,' McCallum said. 'It took me two or three rounds to get warm.'

But once McCallum was properly tuned up, he began punishing McCrory with a body attack, mixing in timely punches to the head. McCrory began bleeding from the right nostril in the third round, and McCallum opened up a cut over the challenger's left eye in the eighth.

'(McCallum) started to hurt him when they went toe-to-toe,' Duva said. 'We also shifted the target from the head to the body. Mike picked up the pace and wore him down.'

McCallum eventually pummeled McCrory into a neutral corner early in the 10th round, scoring at will to the body and scored a technical knockout at 2:20.


..................Rockin'

[QueensburyRules]

McCallum is an interesting fighter from a historical perspective: for a while he became the pro verbial witty rejoinder at the boxing wine and cheese party... "I like mike Tyson" "Yeah! Roy Jones!!" "ahem! Perhaps you gentlemen have heard of the body snatcher?"

This sort of membership into the boxing club for those who knew McCallum did have the effect of allowing people to look at a truly superb fighter. Look at this fight against Julian Jackson (POSTED BELOW): McCallum does so many things so well. Defensively watch his use of angles, head movement and timing... His ability to throw a well placed jab and freeze JJ for a second and then... right to the body. McCallum's hand placement, so that against one of the hardest punchers, his chin and side of face is always protected by his glove & arm, or tucking the chin... He is always moving off line, but not straight back enough to get caught... Just enough to circle and make an angle.

When he gets JJ in trouble he patiently breaks the body down until JJ is literally turning into other shots to avoid the punishing body blows, eventually being cut down like a tree.

Here is the fight: https://********/jHpiqJD2DfA

McCallum at his best did so many things so well... One of the very best body punchers and on a short list of great Middle Weights.

- - Great fighter but a colossal bore that thankfully passed under the public recognition seamlessly.

[billeau2]

- - Great fighter but a colossal bore that thankfully passed under the public recognition seamlessly.

Unlike that lighteningn rod Valuev?

[billeau2]

Did you know that McCallum used to fight out of Kronk?


By JEFFREY T. SHAIN
PHOENIX -- Mike McCallum, who left the Kronk Gym in a dispute with Emanuel Steward over the handling of his career, got a measure of revenge.

'This should give me the respect I deserve,' McCallum said after scoring a 10th-round technical knockout of Kronk's Milton McCrory to retain his World Boxing Association junior middleweight title.

McCallum split with Steward in 1984 after the Kronk manager arranged a fight between Roberto Duran and Kronk's Thomas Hearns. McCallum felt the fight should have been his, but Steward has said that Duran would never fight McCallum.

McCallum then hooked up with Lou Duva and won his title in 1984 with a knockout of Sean Mannion.

Sunday's victory was McCallum's fifth successful title defense, and none couldn't be sweeter for him. In beating a Kronk fighter, McCallum was able to get back at his former manager.

'I've got no animosity with anybody at the Kronk stable, with the exception of Steward,' McCallum said.

But it may be the last title defense in that division for McCallum. The champion, who reportedly had trouble making the 154-pound weight before weighing in 1/4-pound under the limit, had announced before the fight that he would move up into the middleweight division.



McCallum, who raised his record to 31-0 with 28 knockouts, started slowly, but eventually began taking control of the middle rounds.

'Milt gave me a tough fight,' McCallum said. 'It took me two or three rounds to get warm.'

But once McCallum was properly tuned up, he began punishing McCrory with a body attack, mixing in timely punches to the head. McCrory began bleeding from the right nostril in the third round, and McCallum opened up a cut over the challenger's left eye in the eighth.

'(McCallum) started to hurt him when they went toe-to-toe,' Duva said. 'We also shifted the target from the head to the body. Mike picked up the pace and wore him down.'

McCallum eventually pummeled McCrory into a neutral corner early in the 10th round, scoring at will to the body and scored a technical knockout at 2:20.


..................Rockin'

Sure didn't!

[Willie Pep 229]

I never thought McCallum boring. He was always in the mix seeking to exchange. I thought him skilled. A master of the game. Enjoyed watching him work. Can't say the same for the Brothers K.

[billeau2]

I never thought McCallum boring. He was always in the mix seeking to exchange. I thought him skilled. A master of the game. Enjoyed watching him work. Can't say the same for the Brothers K.

Consider the source of the comment... Remember when you graduated kindergarten and your mama proudly gave you your first big boy pants? You might have said "mama, Elvis is a boring singer, and it is a fact that while the French invented Mayonaise, Scotch Irish poor whites perfected the range of its applications!" To which your mama might have said: "Look at you! Such a big boy!"

[QueensburyRules]

Consider the source of the comment... Remember when you graduated kindergarten and your mama proudly gave you your first big boy pants? You might have said "mama, Elvis is a boring singer, and it is a fact that while the French invented Mayonaise, Scotch Irish poor whites perfected the range of its applications!" To which your mama might have said: "Look at you! Such a big boy!"

- - Able to read Ginsberg and Kerouac in a single bound and leap tall buildings while in U BigBoys, eh?

[billeau2]

- - Able to read Ginsberg and Kerouac in a single bound and leap tall buildings while in U BigBoys, eh?

You need to "wear" those big boy pants and use your crayons more carefully. Even Ginsburg while tripping would not come up with some of the shiat you turtle out without your diapers. "McCallum a boring fighter." what an iiiidddddiot you are. And "Jimmy Young just ran away from Foreman." both sig worthy in a bad way, not a good way big boy! How do you come up with this crap? What turd stained muse? Ginsburg wants to know!

[QueensburyRules]

You need to "wear" those big boy pants and use your crayons more carefully. Even Ginsburg while tripping would not come up with some of the shiat you turtle out without your diapers. "McCallum a boring fighter." what an iiiidddddiot you are. And "Jimmy Young just ran away from Foreman." both sig worthy in a bad way, not a good way big boy! How do you come up with this crap? What turd stained muse? Ginsburg wants to know!

- - Young ran like a scalded U vs Foreman in between getting raked on the ropes.

Said McC is a great fighter, but a boring fighter, ie personality in and out of the ring. Paint by the numbers in the ring, and rattle the BB in his otherwise empty noggin out of the ring.

When gonna start U signature Ginberg BiG Boys in honor of all the boy attendants he had taking care of his excretory results?
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