Nice piece John !!! I'll never forget that night so long ago at the old Boston Arena when the CCTV projector broke down and the riot started,.... what a wild night that was,.... / soon afterward I found out that place was just a block or two from where I went to school on Huntington Ave :) where it was somewhat calmer as a rule.
It is funny how the light heavies never got a lot of attention. Roy Jones had a long run there, but I don't know. It was never that exciting until the Tarver fights. When you have to use gimmicks like playing a whole game of basketball earlier that same fight day or being wired up with a microphone during another "title defense", eh, that's really reaching. Haha. Foster certainly could hit like a dream. And so could Thomas Hearns who held a title there but that too, was not super memorable. And then we had Beterbiev who is an absolute beast, but I was disappointed with his fights against Bivol. They were kind of dull, which doesn't help the division, either. Hehe. Great breakdown, John.
Enjoyed this posting. You brought back a lot of memories to me. Bob Foster and Roy Jones were clearly two of the best fighters in any division over the last 60 years.
I find it interesting that the light heavyweight division has always been somewhat ignored. It always seemed to me that the overall quality of light heavyweights was much higher than heavyweights. We always remember the great heavyweights, Ali, Tyson, Holmes, Frazier who boxed with speed. Most heavyweights are slow, lumbering fighters. That’s not the case with light heavyweights.
Nice piece John !!! I'll never forget that night so long ago at the old Boston Arena when the CCTV projector broke down and the riot started,.... what a wild night that was,.... / soon afterward I found out that place was just a block or two from where I went to school on Huntington Ave :) where it was somewhat calmer as a rule.
It is funny how the light heavies never got a lot of attention. Roy Jones had a long run there, but I don't know. It was never that exciting until the Tarver fights. When you have to use gimmicks like playing a whole game of basketball earlier that same fight day or being wired up with a microphone during another "title defense", eh, that's really reaching. Haha. Foster certainly could hit like a dream. And so could Thomas Hearns who held a title there but that too, was not super memorable. And then we had Beterbiev who is an absolute beast, but I was disappointed with his fights against Bivol. They were kind of dull, which doesn't help the division, either. Hehe. Great breakdown, John.
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Enjoyed this posting. You brought back a lot of memories to me. Bob Foster and Roy Jones were clearly two of the best fighters in any division over the last 60 years.
I find it interesting that the light heavyweight division has always been somewhat ignored. It always seemed to me that the overall quality of light heavyweights was much higher than heavyweights. We always remember the great heavyweights, Ali, Tyson, Holmes, Frazier who boxed with speed. Most heavyweights are slow, lumbering fighters. That’s not the case with light heavyweights.