Ironies in classic boxing...

[Mintcar923]

Double Trouble HBO card back in July '88 when they had Honeyghan-Chung and Starling-Molinares on the same card. Both fights had freakish endings...

[Scott9945]

Jose Napoles nickname was Mantequilla meaning butter, referring to his style or too his easy too cut skin ?.

The nickname meant (or implied) "smooth as butter", refererring to Napoles' graceful ring style.

[Cardinal Buck]

Lamont Peterson suggested PED's testing for the Khan rematch, but failed the testing himself.

[Cardinal Buck]

Vitali Klitschko yelling at Solis to continue after blowing out his knee, even though Vitali retired against Byrd with less of an injury.

[Mintcar923]

When Anthony Hembrick was being touted as such a great prospect prior to his bout with Booker T. Word back in '90, I think. Anthony was in his hometown and was dancing, showboating and acting overly confident. The bell rings and he gets nailed with a shot. The fight ends in round 1 and he is carried out on a stretcher.

[NChristo]

The nickname meant (or implied) "smooth as butter", refererring to Napoles' graceful ring style.

I know , the irony being that his skin cut as easy as butter.

[Anthony342]

Before the first Louis- Schmeling fight, Louis was asked by his trainer Blackburn his thoughts on the fight with Schmeling and Louis said "You can bet it's not going the full fifteen rounds". Of course it didnt- for him.

The same thing happened before the Hagler/Hearns fight. Hearns predicted it would end in 3 rounds in a press conference. It did, for him. They show a clip of this press conference in the Legendary Nights episode for this fight.

[Mintcar923]

The two famous "Tommy's" in boxing were known to have somewhat suspect chins. That being Hearns and Morrison...

I also recall when Marco Antonio Barrera fought Johnny Tapia. I had made my dad watch it with me. Well, my dad is only a casual boxing fan so he didn't know Marco wore the name "Tapia" on his trunks because that was his Mom's maiden name. I think he had asked me "Why is he wearing Johhny's trunks? Was he having an identity crisis?!" They both were wearing the same name and I thought that was pretty funny...