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had.Audley Harrison is one heavyweight who comes to mind who could make
things interesting. He needs a little more seasoning but he is one to watch.
He is big and quick. Vitali Klitschko of course is the man at the moment but he
needs to take on all comers and come out on top before we can say he is more
than just for the moment. Wladimir K. has a lot of talent but he seems to
crumble up every time he is hit with a big punch and he has stanima and/or
health problems that will hold him back. As far as American
heavyweights go the pickens are slim indeed, former national golden gloves
champion (like Jerry!) Malcolm Tann could surprise a lot of people if he learns
to settle down in the ring and box and use his natural height advantage, he is
6'6" and at 230 pounds, is always in shape, but he tends to brawl more than he
should and he sometimes leaves himself open to punches. He is 10-1 as a
professional and I have seen him fight several times, including his only loss
as a pro this past November to journeyman Willie Chapman, a veteran with almost
forty professional fight and about a 50% win rate. Tann has already sparred in
the gym with James Toney, Wladimir K, Kirk Johnson, and Chris Byrd, among
others.We could very well be in a resurgence of the heavyweights as
there are also several Eastern European fighters that are climbing the ladder.
The problem is, none of the prospects seem to get together and fight each other,
they just seem to pad their records and it is hard to tell who is for real and
who isn't. It isn't like it was when Jerry was coming up and he was
already fighting Eddie Machen and Floyd Patterson by the time he was twenty-two
or when Joe Frazier was already taking on Oscar Bonevena is his 11th
professional fight. |
|5/3/04 03:19:30 AM|Fran|Philly||plc7755@aol.com||||10|Kent great article on
Mike Thanks. Thats a good web site. Angelo you said it best when you said
Cossell irritated you during the 79 world series he was irritating thats why we
always muted the TV on him. You don't have to have been a fighter to be able to
write or announce it I just meant that his attitude seemed to be that he didn't
know or care to know that he just focused on what he did know which was
controversy and stuff like that. He was no Don Dunphy. |
|5/3/04 07:46:46 AM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Fran: I
think one thing we can agree on (you point to this) is that Cosell often made
the event about Cosell! Dunphy knew his role---to call the action, but to let
the fighters have the spotlight. Often, especially later in his career, Cosell
felt that his opinions and presence were more important than the
fighters!!Kent: Not patronizing you at all. Even before your East Side
boxing columns, I thought your opinions here were solid. I don't always agree--
-but you always have reasons and strong supporting comments for what you write
and I think that's what gives you credibility in my mind. By the way, is
Buster Douglas gone for good? A few years ago, on one of his comebacks, he
looked sharp (I think it was against Lou Savarese) and I never heard about him
again after that. |
|5/3/04 08:37:57 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Thanks Angelo
and Fran. About Cosell, I have also heard fans of boxing, football, and
baseball, say Cosell favors one team or one player over another but sometimes
fans from opposite sides will say it during the same event! Just like the fans
of the Pittsburg Pirates and the Baltimore Orioles during the baseball world
series saying he favored the other side over their team. This shows a certain
amount of unbiased commentary by Cosell or maybe he just knew how to irritate
the fans of both teams by making timely comments.|
|5/3/04 01:50:15 PM|kookoo|ny||kookooclock||||10|HOWARD COSSELL , TYPICAL RICH
JEW BOY, NOT MUCH OF A MAN, LIVED LIKE A KING , DIDN'T KNOW JACK ABOUT SPORTS,
SHOULD HAVE PRACTICED LAW (I KNOW HE WENT TO LAW SCHOOL)LIKE THW REST OF THEM
JEW BOYS, BOWED DOWN TO A JERK LIKE MUHAMMAD ALI, SMART IN SOME WAYS , BUT VERY
STUPID IN OTHERS, BIG NOSED CHUMP|
|5/3/04 02:30:09 PM|Steve|N.J.||dmmsrm@comcast.net||||10|For years,I detested