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https://********/JmWeEyoS7Cc Otis Grant and Ryan Rhodes FaceTime about 10 days ago. Literally 25 years to the week after they fought each other for the WBO middleweight title in Sheffield, England, December 1997
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back then no one cared about the WBO title. Lonnie Bradley was the WBO champ and had previously fought Grant on TNF a few days before Biggie was killed. I never missed TNF and always had my vhs tape ready. Also, Prior to Bradley vacating the WBO title, he had damn near beat Williams into a coma and was concerned with him as he lay on the canvas with the doctors looking over him. This was when Hopkins, Joppy, and Holmes were champs in the 3-belt era. Joppy and Holmes would have been a big fight for the purists, but the 2 of them just traded words at press conferences(pre social media) and Don King(who promoted them) never made the fight. King purposely waited to do a MW tournament when Tito moved up and still then, the WBO title wasn't considered a major title back then. No one simply cared about it until DlH robbed it from Sturm.. Thanks for this post. it took me back.
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