Howard Cosell. Miss Him Or Good Riddence?

[PBDS]

.....I miss him for more than just boxing. He was a MNF icon. One little **** up and everyone was ready to crucify the man. I loved Howard while laughing with and at him.

[phallus]

cosell was alright, now we have colorful old drunks like larry merchant and wifebeaters like jim lampley. i wish **** vitale did boxing commentary, damn he was funny " Serendipity, baby, final four !!!!"

[Mistadobalina]

Howard William Cosell, born Howard William Cohen (March 25, 1918 – April 23, 1995)

I enjoyed Howard, he was great.

He left boxing because it was too brutal of a sport and boxers were not being taken care of.

He wrote his autobiography, I Never Played the Game.

i believe it was right after the larry holmes vs tex cobb fight. that **** was as one-sided as a fight gets. thank goodness cobb was among the toughest men in the sport.

[Panamaniac]

Cosell was one of a kind. There may never be another like him. I got a kick out of his sophisticated vocabulary.

On a side note, Howard Cosell was so outraged by the Holmes/Frazier (Marvis, smokin' Joe's son) mismatch that he swore-off boxing immediately following the fight. That fight marked the very last boxing match he would broadcast. I'm not sure (or recall) what other issues combined for him to make such a drastic decision, but I have a nagging feeling that sleaze and Don King might have been a factor.

[THe TRiNiTY]

I'm not saying the announcers don't love boxing now, but he was a VERY POPULAR announcer who loved fighting. I miss that kind of appeal for boxing.

[Poet682006]

Cosell was one of a kind. There may never be another like him. I got a kick out of his sophisticated vocabulary.

On a side note, Howard Cosell was so outraged by the Holmes/Frazier (Marvis, smokin' Joe's son) mismatch that he swore-off boxing immediately following the fight. That fight marked the very last boxing match he would broadcast. I'm not sure (or recall) what other issues combined for him to make such a drastic decision, but I have a nagging feeling that sleaze and Don King might have been a factor.

It was actually the Holmes - Cobb fight that chased Howard out of the fight game.

Poet

[Panamaniac]

It was actually the Holmes - Cobb fight that chased Howard out of the fight game.

Poet

Be that as it may, do you have any information with regard to his reasons?

[Mistadobalina]

Be that as it may, do you have any information with regard to his reasons?

it was a one-sided beat down. a jab, right cross fest for larry holmes. cossell was even commentating that the ref is just being persuaded to keep the fight going by the cheering of the crowd whenever cobb would land a punch, but they had no effect at all. towards the end of the fight he just stopped saying anything. it was silence.

[Poet682006]

Be that as it may, do you have any information with regard to his reasons?

He was completely disgusted by the spectacle of a one-sided mismatch. Holmes pitched and Cobb caught. As Cosell described it "Cobb's face looked like raw hamburger". At that point he decided enough was enough and he didn't want to be associated with a sport that allowed such things to happen.

Poet

[mrpain81]

Merchant>Cosell

Guy got famous because Ali, I thought he was a good, but Larry Merchant is the Godfather.