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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: Filo on September 01, 2025, 06:43:21 pm
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Fought Ali and Frazier back to back, and went the distance twice with Ali, RIP Joe
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If he'd have had more of a killer instinct, he'd have been one of the best in the world.
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If he'd have had more of a killer instinct, he'd have been one of the best in the world.
A young boxer died after fighting him, they say he held back in his fights after that
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I didn't know that. Could explain his career. My brain is saying he had a tremendous right hook - but it was very rarely employed. I might have made that up, but that absence of a killer instinct does ring true.
BobG
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Bugner suggested that his hesitancy sprung from an early professional fight, in 1969, in which he defeated Ulric Regis of Trinidad and Tobago. Four days later, Regis died of a brain injury.
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I didn't know that. Could explain his career. My brain is saying he had a tremendous right hook - but it was very rarely employed. I might have made that up, but that absence of a killer instinct does ring true.
BobG
It was a right cross, Bob, and very powerful. He once laid Richard Dunn clean out with it.
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I didn't know that. Could explain his career. My brain is saying he had a tremendous right hook - but it was very rarely employed. I might have made that up, but that absence of a killer instinct does ring true.
BobG
It was a right cross, Bob, and very powerful. He once laid Richard Dunn clean out with it.
To be fair a near miss could lay Richard Dunn out
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I didn't know that. Could explain his career. My brain is saying he had a tremendous right hook - but it was very rarely employed. I might have made that up, but that absence of a killer instinct does ring true.
BobG
It was a right cross, Bob, and very powerful. He once laid Richard Dunn clean out with it.
To be fair a near miss could lay Richard Dunn out
Ha ha. To be fair though, he did have the distinction of fighting Ali.
Well, he turned up.