One morning with George Foreman in Tokyo
Steve Bunce on the trials and tribulations of a heavyweight motley crew
IT was a morning of true glory in Tokyo when the George Foreman roadshow started at 9am with Tommy Morrison in denial, Mark Gastineau in tears and the most ferocious women’s fight I have ever seen.
The Bay NK Hall, near Tokyo’s Disneyland, had been home to sedate affairs, bonsai tree festivals, Wham, giant gatherings of stamp collectors, but on a Sunday morning in November 1996, Foreman and his carnival arrived. It was bedlam, I loved it.
Morrison was banished from boxing after testing positive for HIV, Gastineau was famous for being the fighter at the centre of Fat Rick Parker’s brutal slaying and somewhere down the bill, the fallen heavyweight, Alex Stewart was on offer as a body. The women, Valerie Wien, a former weather-girl from RTL, and Mary Ann Almager shared a broken jaw, a pint of blood, three closed eyes and the mild applause of a bemused crowd.
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With extensive planning in cooperation with the Palm Beach County Convention s GBA-Star Rating Standards, producers followed COVID Guidelines and necessary safety protocols, allowing collectors to enjoy the first look at the high-end selection of fine art, antiques and jewelry from over 55 exhibitors. Â
Rating and reviewing the Rocky films alongside each other
TO millions, Rocky means Balboa rather than
Marciano or Graziano. More than that, it means a fighting spirit, a belief that
if you never give up, you will get your rewards.
Had Sylvester Stallone made his decision to
retire Rocky after the success of the first film way back in 1976, we would
have been spared the fight that ended the Cold War and his comeback when he was
in his fifties, but also deprived of the ending to
Rocky II.
They created lots of interest in the heavyweight
division – albeit not the real heavyweight division – at a time when ‘The Lost
Desert Island Fights: The 1990s
So far BN readers have voted Frazier-Ali I as their favourite fight of the seventies and Hagler-Hearns from the eighties. What will be the choice for Desert Island Fights from the nineties?
THE premise for Desert Island Fights is simple: You will soon be stranded on a desert island. To ease the boredom, you can take along one – and only one – fight from each of the last five decades (1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s) to watch while you’re there. Which five fights do you take?
For many fans, the 1990s was the last true golden era. The decade began when Mike Tyson was still an invincible man and it ended with his powers exposed. That descent, which was bumpy in the extreme, saw fighters like Evander Holyfield, Riddick Bowe and Lennox Lewis pass Tyson on their way up.
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