Comments Thread For: Alan Minter, 69, Passes Away After Battle With Cancer

[smeck]

Tough guy, had some problems with cuts, but was one of UK's best at the time, and beating Vito Antuofermo twice was not an easy thing to do.

[Larry the boss]

R.I.P champ

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Tough guy, had some problems with cuts, but was one of UK's best at the time, and beating Vito Antuofermo twice was not an easy thing to do.

Nearly all of his earlier losses were due to cuts due to head clashes. Under modern day rules he’d have won many of those by a technical decision.

I remember speaking to John H Stracey about it, who had similar problems with cuts, he’s still mad about losing to Dave Boy Green via a cut stoppage to this day.

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Comments Thread For: Alan Minter, 69, Passes Away After Battle With Cancer

Alan Minter the former undisputed world middleweight champion has died at the age of 69 after a battle against cancer. While Minter wasn't among the elite group of world middleweights, his place in Britain's boxing history cannot be denied. He was the first British boxer to win a world title in Las Vegas, when he claimed the middleweight crown from Vito Antuofermo at Caesars Palace in 1980. He would hold it for only six months, but he was unlucky to have to face Marvin Hagler.
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[TheReadyTimeBoy]

RIP! Undisputed Middleweight World Champion...

[archiemoore1]

Against Hagler, Minter put on one of the all time great human punching bag performances maybe since the legendary Joe Grim

[angkag]

Against Hagler, Minter put on one of the all time great human punching bag performances maybe since the legendary Joe Grim

As said in the article "...Minter did his best to stand up to Hagler’s attacks, but the American punch straight through his defences, battering Minter in three bloody, painful rounds before the Englishman was rescued...." (pretty much how everyone saw it)

Then consider one judge had Minter winning at the time of the stoppage !!

[archiemoore1]

I never forgave those brits for how they treated marvelous up there. He couldn't get awarded his belt in the ring, like any other champ. He was so good that night, Minter had no chance. His face was literally chopped to pieces like meat at the butcher

[SteveM]

RIP Champ, Just a whisker before my earliest memories of watching boxing but a legend of the British sport.

I grew up watching boxing on TV in the seventies. It was on all the time and hard to avoid. I vaguely remember watching a Minter Finnegan fight. Minter was huge in the UK at the time. Tony Sibson was a monster at the British level, tore through everyone but unfortunately for him, and Minter, there was an ATG - Hagler - waiting in the wings to monster them.

[SteveM]

Against Hagler, Minter put on one of the all time great human punching bag performances maybe since the legendary Joe Grim

Most people on this thread have no idea just how awesome Hagler was in his prime in the late seventies and early eighties. By the mid eighties he was past prime but that's when he carved out his ATG legacy.