Watching Ingamar Johannsson train for his 1959 bout against Floyd Patterson and then sitting through their scrap, persuaded Rocky Marciano to go back to the gym after a three year retirement to try and re-capture the elusive old magic.
Common sense quickly prevailed and The Rock conceded he felt like an old self, rather than his old self.
Lennox Lewis called it quits after stopping Vitali Klitschko on cuts in six rounds, in June 2003. Lewis huffed and puffed to that victory and it was more than evident that Father Time had caught up with him, at a trot rather than a canter. Klitschko very nearly did. [details]
Common sense quickly prevailed and The Rock conceded he felt like an old self, rather than his old self.
Lennox Lewis called it quits after stopping Vitali Klitschko on cuts in six rounds, in June 2003. Lewis huffed and puffed to that victory and it was more than evident that Father Time had caught up with him, at a trot rather than a canter. Klitschko very nearly did. [details]