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And what do you base Vitally being number 3 on? |
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[QUOTE=Mr Objecitivity;18575402]Pardon me mate, I certainly misunderstood. And yes it is common sense. Just as it's common sense to understand that to become a heavyweight champion in Ali's era it was much harder. I really don't put too many importance into owning all these belts. The people know who the real heavyweight champion is.
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#76 |
Latin From Manhattan
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I made my way up to the Times Square Gym a few times back in the late eighties/early nineties. Met Emile Griffith there, watched some top fighters spar. I’ll never forget that long-ass stairway. Lol Cheers. Image View Removed. Please Click Here.
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#77 |
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You have to put Iron Mike in the top 10. Dude unified the Heavyweight division and defended the belt multiple times by the age of 21. That will NEVER be done again.
Truth is prime Tyson was over at the age of 22. He was never the same fighter after the Spinks fight but what he did before then gets him in the top 10 for sure IMO. He was basically a boxing prodigy. An extraordinary talent that burnt out quickly but what he did in his prime was incredible. |
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#78 |
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Emile Griffith god rest his soul! My Trainer was Raffy Correa. Him, Emile, Bernard, Georgy Colon, Benito Soto, Johnny Pearson, Carlos Espada, Donald Hayes, Tony Trickman Norris & my Grandfather of Boxing the owner Jimmy Glenn. All these trainers were great! There are some others I left out. But hey I was there from 1980-88. And yes those stairs were waaaaay long. Did you get to go to the lockers? cause them stairs just kept going up. Wow them were some special times. |
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Anyway good talking to you brother! |
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Latin From Manhattan
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Yes, I’m originally from NYC. Back in those days I spent some time around “The Deuce,” hanging out like a lot of NYC kids. I started working in the area in the late eighties. I never ran into him, but Mike Tyson used to frequent Times Square back then. I recall seeing his white Lamborghini jeep parked on Broadway once. (Never saw another one before or since.) I met Emile through a friend who was a boxing writer. He was a very nice man with a broad smile. I remember watching Saul Mamby work the bag once. I can still see that big glass that faced 42 Street, right next to the ring. I never made it to the lockers. I was just a visitor. Been thirty years since then. The way my memory’s going, I’m impressed I remember this much. Lol But it’s always that way, isn’t it? You remember the distant past fairly well, but not what you had for breakfast. Image View Removed. Please Click Here.
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