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Lets talk about this great white hope. He had a stellar amateur career and I wasn't aware that he was in fact the first guy to beat Teofilo Stevenson, yet he also lost to him in the olympics. He also beat Larry Holmes as amateur, which is pretty well known. Bobick had some punch, 42 kos in 48 wins! But he was kinda strangely proportioned, had a rather strong body but his legs looked suspiciously skinny.
Made him look funny on pics, in his boxer stance. Shame about that Norton fight, but he got punched in the adam's apple and shouldn't that be illegal? Very unlucky. He also got wasted by otherwise rather unremarkable puncher Kallie Knoetze. His best win is over Mike Weaver, who also his brother beat. He also beat Scott Le Doux (once by ko and once by dec), Chuck Wepner (one of the few to stop Wepner, and in 6 rounds) and Bunny Johnson.
Rodney Bobick btw also looked promising. Sadly his career got tragically cut short by a car accident. Back to Duane, he is of Polish and German origin. He won a gold in the Pan Am games in 1971 btw, when he beat Stevenson. One of those boxers who had a promising amateur career but kinda fell short as pro. Duane himself nearly got killed in a machine accident after taking a job in heavy industry after his boxing career ended, it was in 1997. He now does coaching, doing volunteer work for schools and churches and working as a city councilman in his hometown.
Made him look funny on pics, in his boxer stance. Shame about that Norton fight, but he got punched in the adam's apple and shouldn't that be illegal? Very unlucky. He also got wasted by otherwise rather unremarkable puncher Kallie Knoetze. His best win is over Mike Weaver, who also his brother beat. He also beat Scott Le Doux (once by ko and once by dec), Chuck Wepner (one of the few to stop Wepner, and in 6 rounds) and Bunny Johnson.Rodney Bobick btw also looked promising. Sadly his career got tragically cut short by a car accident. Back to Duane, he is of Polish and German origin. He won a gold in the Pan Am games in 1971 btw, when he beat Stevenson. One of those boxers who had a promising amateur career but kinda fell short as pro. Duane himself nearly got killed in a machine accident after taking a job in heavy industry after his boxing career ended, it was in 1997. He now does coaching, doing volunteer work for schools and churches and working as a city councilman in his hometown.
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