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• rollone 772 Posts

  Mon, Sep 1 2014 10:09 AM

  i quit watching when Irish Mickey Ward stopped fighting. IMO, one of the greats, because it was non stop action when he was fighting.

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Mon, Sep 1 2014 1:04 PM

  My brother David, who is 30, was fast tracking UFC until he put a guy into a coma for two weeks...he quit. He was always high on someone named Alexis Arguello (sp ?) because of his "grace" as David called it.

• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Mon, Sep 1 2014 2:09 PM

  SweetiePie:

  My brother David, who is 30, He was always high on someone named Alexis Arguello (sp ?) because of his "grace" as David called it.

  Alexis was a great fighter with some memorable fights in the late 70's and early 80's...he retired in ''83 after moving up in weight and getting beat twice by Aaron Pryor...made a comeback years later but wasn't half the fighter he once was...he died a few years ago in his 50's.

  Pretty cool that his ability to fight is recognized and admired by someone born after he retired...

   

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Mon, Sep 1 2014 7:50 PM

  Arguello destroyed Scotland's Jim Watt to take his world title in 1981. Here's a post bout quote -

  "I have a car business and if I had to do an estimate on my face, I would probably write it off." -Jim Watt