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I heard in another article that they're both gonna fight each other again....
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Originally posted by DeymarPR View Post
Unless they fight in Australia, nobody would even notice. Hopefully this is just a rumor that is going nowhere. -
the only thing those guys are fighting is alzheimersComment
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No f---ing way :/Comment
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Yes way, Jeff has lost 16 kgs in the last 2 months and is around 66kgs and he looks great.Originally posted by Asian Sensation View Post
Not a fight I want to see though but father time would be on Jeff's side here, he is 43 whilst Azumah is 49 (I have no idea what type of shape Nelson is in)Comment
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The start of a SENIORS' CIRCUIT in boxing???!!!Comment
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After George Foreman made his successful comeback, every heavyweight from the 70s decided to make another go of it (Quarrey, Cobb, Shavers). Even Danny Lopez and Carlos Palomino came back. Hopefully this doesn't kickstart a trend.Originally posted by grayfist View PostComment
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Both men are being Wheeled into the ring with Wheelchairs.Comment
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Yeah. But Quarrey, Foreman, Shavers, Little Red and Carlos took on younger guys not their contemporaries. Didn't they?Originally posted by Asian Sensation View Post
Had Foreman agreed to the Shavers' challenge, that would have been the start of the SENIORS' CIRCUIT. Fenech vs. Nelson, if it happens, shall get that distinction instead. IF it happens and IF there are similar matches that shall follow.
I concede that Tex Cobb fought a contemporary in Rick Kellar who debuted some two years after Cobb ('79 vs. '77). But, with a career record of 16-35, Kellar is not exactly prime material for the Masters' (aka, Seniors') Circuit. (Edit/Note: Cobb had already beaten Kellar in his first incarnation by 2nd round stoppage. It took him two more rounds to finish Kellar in Cobb's comeback fight. Kellar was not on the comeback trail; he didn't retire until after the second fight against Cobb).
The oldest opponent Carlos Palomino faced was Rene Arredondo who is 12 years his junior. Little Red was KO'd in 3 in his comeback fight against Jorge Rodriguez who is 14 years younger than him. Brian Morgan was 15 years old when Shavers lost to Ali and Brian Yates, who KO'd Shavers in Shavers' last fight, was just about a year old in 1975.
I'm a senior citizen myself, so maybe my memory is not all that good. I may have missed a bout where a champ/leading fighter of the 70's faced, in a dual comeback fight, a contemporary who was a champion or one who was highly rated in their first incarnations.
I don't think you can have a "Seniors' Circuit" if you line up Seniors against--for want of a better word--"Juniors". That'd become a Juniors-Seniors Circuit.
Anyhow... like you, I hope it (a "trend") becomes stillborn. The "Juniors"-Seniors circuit shoud die too, if there's one.Last edited by grayfist; 04-09-2008, 08:28 PM.Comment
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Actually Jeff is very serious , I would be too for the million dollar purse they are being paid , mate once a fighter always a fighter , I dont agree with the fight but the two old champs will get a great thrill out of it , and a big payday .Originally posted by brently1979 View Post
MEET the new-look Jeff Fenech, who has stripped an amazing 16kg from his muscular frame in just over six weeks.
And Fenech is finalising details for a rematch with Azumah Nelson, the Ghanaian who handed Fenech his first career defeat, in the famous Princes Park fight of March 1992.
The June 24 fight could well take place in Melbourne.
After the triple world boxing champion announced last month he would make a shock comeback to the ring, Fenech has wasted no time whipping his body into shape.
The 43-year-old has cut out junk food and sugar.
He no longer has a couple of bottles of red wine each night with wife Suzee.
"I can also see my abs for the first time since 1996," Fenech said. "I was 85.75kg at the start of the year and just last week I was under 69kg."
Even yesterday, after stepping off a plane from Thailand – where he was discussing details for the rematch with 49-year-old Nelson – Fenech went straight to the gym at his inner-western Sydney home to skip and spar.
There can be no question he is back to the level of commitment and dedication that allowed the "Marrickville Mauler" to win three world titles in the late 1980s and early '90s.
And Fenech hopes to put all his hard work to show in front of the thousands of fight fans keen to see him back in action.
While Fenech was supposed to fight Thai hero Samart Payakarun in Thailand in June for $1 million, the Aussie brawler revealed yesterday he would instead face Nelson.
"I met Samart last week in ****kok, we had dinner and agreed to the fight, then the next morning he told me he wasn't going to go ahead with it," Fenech said.
"I don't know what happened or whether somebody got to him.
"But I had been in contact with Azumah and now we're going to fight.
"I guess when one door closes another opens and I've got no doubts the fight with Azumah will be five times bigger than the fight with Samart would have been.
"I've been training hard, but I know this fight is going to be a lot tougher."
Fenech and Nelson first locked horns in Las Vegas in 1991, only for the fight to end in a controversial draw.
Then Nelson travelled to Melbourne in March 1992 and knocked out Fenech in the eighth round of a fight staged in front of almost 40,000 spectators.
Fenech said yesterday he was keen for revenge.
"The first time we met I believe I won, and the second time, when Azumah beat me, there were no excuses, so this will be my chance to level things up," Fenech said.
"This is my chance to make it up to myself and the Australian people."
Fenech hopes to bring Nelson to Australia in the coming weeks to promote the fight.
He also hinted the rematch could be in Melbourne, with the Main Event channel to beam the slugfest.
Nelson was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2004 with a record of 39 wins (28 by knockout), five losses and two draws.
Fenech finished with career statistics of 28 wins (21 by knockout), three losses and one draw.Comment
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