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Can you believe that Virgil Quicksilver Hill just earned a piece of the WBA title the other night? And even though the boxing fraternity recognizes O’Neil Bell as the world’s true cruiserweight champ, Hill’s victory over an undefeated world class fighter is still a major accomplishment and a kind of homage to the consistency that he has displayed through out his career that has lasted more than 20 years. Take a look at his teammates of that famed 84 team. Meldrick Taylor hasn’t been a champ since 92 and suffers from boxing induced brain damage. Evander Holyfield can’t throw more than fifteen punches a round and hasn’t won a fight since 2002, Mark Breland’s career was pretty much over in 87 as was Tyrell Biggs’s, and Pernell Whitaker was stopped by Carlos Bojorquez in 2001. And yet, Virgil Hill is still here, knocking on the door of a legitimate world championship at the age of 42.
It’s really kind of funny because the Silver Medallist was thought to be one of the fighters from that team that wasn’t going to make an impact as a professional. In fact on the night that he turned pro at Madison Square Garden in November of 1984 his fight was cut from television because a lot of people didn’t think he was going to make waves as a professional, but here he is outlasting all of his other teammates. [details]
It’s really kind of funny because the Silver Medallist was thought to be one of the fighters from that team that wasn’t going to make an impact as a professional. In fact on the night that he turned pro at Madison Square Garden in November of 1984 his fight was cut from television because a lot of people didn’t think he was going to make waves as a professional, but here he is outlasting all of his other teammates. [details]
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