Joe Bugner

[Filo]

Fought Ali and Frazier back to back, and went the distance twice with Ali, RIP Joe

[scawsby steve]

If he'd have had more of a killer instinct, he'd have been one of the best in the world.

[Filo]

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

[BobG]

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

[Filo]

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.

[scawsby steve]

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.

[Filo]

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

[scawsby steve]

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.