Shannon Briggs Comeback

[Kimmy]

That doesn`t make sense. Botha couldn`t have been King`s fall guy back then because he wasn`t with Don King when Botha fought Tyson. Yes, Botha was the IBF number 2 contender when he fought Tyson in 1999 but neither fighter was with Don King so what prupose had King paying off the IBF to rank a fighter he had no interest in?

[Craig#1]

I think it's a bad idea coming back cause he will just get knocked out all the ******* timeand he should change his name to Barry Briggs How ***.

[masterdirector]

yeah I don't know then but Botha was definitely kept in the rankings for King. I just assumed Tyson although the article didn't say that. But hey this wouldn't be the first time King wanted a white guy he didn't promote to be kept in the rankings. Wepner, Cooney, McNeeley...eh. Those were definitely King guys. King could've just had plans to have Botha for someone.

There are a couple white heavyweights whose records were padded but you probably haven't heard of because they either got caught or lost. I can't even think of the one guy I'm thinking of right now. You or someone else has probably read it too though, with all the FBI investigation stuff. Not Brian Nielsen even though he was one of the white heavyweights with a padded record. Some other guy, someone from the States.

And I have a theory that this guy was supposed to be Joe Mesi before Joe Mesi came along because I think the guy was from New York as well. I'll dig through some articles later, but it is late as ****, actually early as **** and I have to open a video store at 11 am.

[Kimmy]

I see the point. Regardless of the white fighters King had ranked over long periods of time i think the most notable trick King pulled was having Tyson ranked the number one challenger by the WBC, WBA and IBF when he came out of prison. The fact that Tyson hadn`t had a fight in 4 years and walks out of prison the mandatory challenger for all the belts!
Nobody complained as it was Mike Tyson and the monsy he brought to the sanctioning bodies was unreal....so king had his way!

[masterdirector]

That is a notable trick indeed. It didn't really matter since Tyson would've easily gotten back to #1 easily enough, but it is the principle of it all. However, nobody should hold that against Tyson himself.

As much as I dislike some boxers, I don't hold even my most hated boxers responsible for how they get ranked. That is always someone else controlling the rankings. What is a fighter to do? Say "No don't rank me that high" ?

[joeboxer]

Man he did not beat George Foreman. You clearly didn't watch that fight. Foreman DEFINITELY won but the judges ****ed Foreman out of it to send him a message to retire. Foreman even said so in that post fight interview. Briggs made it the distance with old ass George, but did NOT, I repeat, did NOT beat George Foreman. He wouldn't beat the current George either.

I remember that Botha fight. OMG that **** was on PPV. And Kushner wonders why he is the laughing stock of boxing promoters. That and Thunderbox are some of the reasons why.

You clearly didn't get the point of the thread. It was a joke about a rediculous comeback.

I never said that he was better than George Foreman. But the judges giving a message idea is ******. Judges don't sit their and adjust their cards based on something else. It was just a bad decision.

The only reason I opened this thread back up was to apologize to a boxer that was never that great and got picked on a lot. If you read the interview you would probably feel bad for him too and he seems like a good guy.