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Happy 4 July to all, including, obviously, Jumpity Bruce! God Bless America!
Even my Country had to gain its Independence from Austria during the 19th Century.
And it achieved that in 1861 with the exception of Roma (the Vaticano wanted Roma under its control). When eventually Roma was freed (in 1870 with the famous "Breccia di Porta Pia"
, the Unification of Italia was completed. The three persons who gave the biggest contribution for this Unification were Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giuseppe Mazzini and Camillo Benso conte di Cavour.
And, what happened in those years is the reason why our anthem says:
"Noi siamo da secoli calpesti, derisi,
perche' non siam popolo, perche' siam divisi.
Raccolgaci un'unica bandiera
una speme:
di fonderci insieme gia'
l'ora suono'".
You can care or not, but that's what really happened.
Jimmy-
That would have been a very interesting tournment.
Comparing this with the 1968 tournment we have Machen, Zora Folley, Mac Foster and Jimmy Young instead of Oscar Bonavena, Jimmy Ellis, Floyd Patterson and Thad Spencer.
It's hard to tell if the tournment would have been better or worse than the one in 1968. Cleveland Williams was an excellent fighter, especially in the late 50s and early 60s and would have probably been very competitive in such a tournment. He had a good jab, one of the hardest left hooks eva and a very hard right hand as well!
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY TO ALL. GLAD TO SEE YOU ALL KEEP COMING BACK, IT WOULD MAKE DAD, AND UNCLE JERRY, PROUD. WE ALL SURE DO MISS THEM.
NICE POINT MASSIMO (THE MASSI-"MOE" OF THEY ITALIANO STOOGES) FROM 1960-79 RING MAGAZINE HAD 8 NO.#1 RATED CONTENDERS TO NOT HOLD OFFICIALLY HOLD A WORLD TITLE. EDDIE MACHEN, ERNIE TERRELL,KARL MILDENBERGER,ZORA FOLLEY, LEOTIS MARTIN, MAC FOSTER, JIMMY YOUNG, AND JERRY QUARRY. HOW WOULD THAT BE FOR A GREAT TOURNAMENT?? (SHAVERS MIGHT HAVE MADE THE RING'S TOP TEN IN THAT PERIOD- ALTHOUGH I DO NOT HAVE HIM HIGHER THEN THIRD/LIKE LYLE AND CHUVALO. OSCAR BONAVENA WAS RANKED 2ND IN 1970 BY "RING" AND WAS DEFIETLY THE WORLD BOXING ASSOCIATION'S #1 FOR THAT TIME
Angelo-
I have seen those 2 rounds too on LL, even if I don't remember much of what happened. Evander Holyfield had an easy time with Slow Tillis, but the same cannot be said about Tyson. I have just watched the first 4 rounds of Toney vs Ruiz and John is doing well (I have him ahead). Boring fight though.
If you want to see a real George vs Ron round, watch Lewis vs Tucker round 8.
Another George vs Ron round was Etienne vs Brewster round 1. Today I have had a rivelation. Clifford Etienne was/is a much better fighter than I thought he was/is. He was/is a good fighter.
My greetings guys! Cheers.
Finally caught Shavers vs. Quick Tillis on You Tube.
It was from 1982, so Earnie was on the down side but still blasted Tillis down with one punch in the 9th round. Tillis survived to win the decision (if the Referee was big and strong enough to separate the fighters after the knockdown, Shavers might have been able to finish it---but Tillis was able to hang on Shavers like a cheap suit and the ref had no way to force them to separate and fight. The best part was Howard Cosell's candid off the record comments. He thought the fight was awful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dNvPOrirb4&feature=related
And the first time he posted John L.Sullivan was.
No, last time the Kookoo Clock posted here, Carnera was still the heavyweight champion of the wordl.
$2,000 for a pair of shoes? The pair I have are good enough and cost less.
Massimo - where is Koo Koo Klock? Does he ever come back here? 
Hi Noam, I'm fine and I hope you're fine too. I'm working and I like it, the only problem is that it's really HOT here where I am.
If you like the memorabilia, take a look at one of my recent posts. It's about Wilton Norman (but everyone used to call him simply "Wilt" Chamberlain's shoe. You can buy it, if you want. It costs less than 2000 dollars
Hi Massimo. How ya doing? I've been buying some memorabilia on ebay. Got some autographs (Jack Dempsey, Jack Sharkey, Jersey Joe Walcott, Angelo Dundee) and a couple of original tickets (Marciano v Walcott 2, Charles v Marciano, Dempsey v Gibbons). I'll get them framed. 
Hi Noam, welcome back!
Maybe Nat Fleischer was Ernie Terrell's best friend, who knows ?
Hello all. Hope you are all well. I've been reading the September 1972 Ring magazine, which has some very interesting articles, including one on Jerry Quarry.
But I notice that the magazine, and in particular the founder and publisher Nat Fleischer, always referred to Muhammad Ali by his former name Cassius Clay.
By 1972 Clay had been known as Ali for six years. Does anyone recall the reason for this? There must have been some resentment of Ali to show him this disrespect.
Spinks win over Cooney was impressive. Cooney landed some serious punches but Spinks ended up dominating. All the more reason I feel fans were cheated by Spinks when he dove against Iron Mike.
Angelo-
Michele Spinks is not the first case of a guy that [or "who", or probably either one of the two] moved from a lighter division to the heavyweight division with success. Holyfield, Moorer and partially Archie Moore did the same,for instance.
Spinks had a somewhat akward style which probably bothered Holmes. However, even if this is not that apparent in the Davide Sears fight, Michele had to be a very skilled fighter to win a gold medal in the Olimpics and then dominate the light-heavyweight division.
It's also suprising the fact that not only he beat
Cooney, but he beat the hell [or even "the heck"] out of Gerry. Gerry Cooney is no midget, he is only 5 cm shorter than Big Steve.
Massimo: I watched the Spinks clip. Still hard to believe he beat Holmes, even if Holmes was past it.
In case anyone is interested:
http://cgi.ebay.com/WILT-CHAMBERLAIN-PSA%2FDNA-AUTOGRAPHED-BASKETBALL-SHOE_W0QQitemZ180255423861QQcmdZViewItem?IMSfp=TL0806191710r18150
Speaking of Spinks, take a look guys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaFNmZ-6viQ
Yes, Tyson was one of the most intimadating fighters eva. This are the top 3 most intimadating boxers in heavyweight history:
1)Sonny Liston
2)George Foreman
3)Mike Tyson
I imagine that Shavers was very intimidating too though.
When Frank Bruno fought Tyson for the second time (1996 A.C.) he froze (not literally, I mean that he was very scared). He was much more scared than when he fought Michael Gerald the first time around (1989 A.C.). I wonder why. Maybe it was a consequence of the detached retina he suffered in the first bout. Before the Mc Call fight Frank said:"I punch harder than Tyson now!". Bruno was bigger, wilter and probably at least as powerful as Iron Mike and had a huge advantage in reach and a remarkable advantage in shoe size! And Tyson's boxing skills were rapidly [or "quicking" or even "fastly"] deteriorating... Shouldn't have been Tyson the one intimidated ?
PS:anyway, I can hardly blame anyone for being scared of someone else. I am hardly a brave guy, I am quite a Don Abbondio-like kind of person, as far as courage goes.
Spinks got hit by Tyson---but I've seen Spinks hit by Larry Holmes multiple times with solid punches and he fought back. He also took shots from Gerry Cooney, who could bang. He was so psyched out by Tyson, any tap from Tyson would have frozen him. Tyson certainly had a big punch, but Spinks could have lasted a few rounds. He chose not to.
I don't think Steve Urkel would have put up a better fight than Michael Spinks against Tyson but it would have been funny to watch as Steve probably would have lasted longer running in circles from Tyson in terror.
I remember Spinks standing his ground and trying to catch Tyson coming in with right hands and I think he just got caught.
I wanted to congratulate with KG for his great win. He has recently posted on this site, so he'll probably read this message.
Perhaps (it means "maybe" we'll have to wait a little to give KB the MJ-license.
MICHAEL SPINKS - Needed TO LEARN A COURAGE LESSON FROM Jerry Quarry, Jerry would have fought Tyson with one hand tied behind his back. Spinks probably made more money $ in that bout then our Jerry made in his entire courageous career. Yes Angelo my monies on Urkel-no pun$ intended. Joe Bugner might have very well been a "twinge" underrated. I was amazed at watching him in there with Shavers. I'd always heard he went down for the ten. but it looked like it was stopped on a cut to me. which might have really became an very interesting bout. his size definetly helped him, he was talking about beating Cooper at age of 21 (controversial decision) and Jerry beat Patterson at the same age Mike Q. was fighting Bob Foster for LHW title. (and 35-0) Bugner impressed me somewhat - And I just do not think he could have beaten JQ. Not near aggressive enough, and did not throw his punches in combination. Yank Durham said thatb was they only way to beat a veteran like Quarry
There was even an episode when Urkel boxed. Spinks boxed like Urkel when he fought Tyson.
Mr. Vecchio-
I had already seen that face on TV but I didn't know his name, his name.
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