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Mad.aboutboxing, Wolverhampton (2026)

24/10/2026

🥊 “In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn’t have any fear. I thought, ‘This is easy. This is what I’ve been waiting for’. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.”

George Foreman

20/10/2026

🥊 “The wind is old, but it keeps blowing.”

Roberto Durán AKA ‘Manos Di Piedra’ (hands of stone) pictured here on his 32nd birthday 16/6/1983 at Madison Square Garden,New York, USA.

Champion Davey Moore is making the fourth defence of his WBA world junior middleweight title which would turn out to be his last as Duran snatched the title in a manner only ‘hands of stone’ could. By way of pure destruction!
In the same venue 11 years earlier Duran would win his first world title, the win versus Moore here would be his third world Championship in turn making him only the seventh man in history to have won world titles in three separate weight catergories.

Davey Moore would lose his life at age 28 when an unoccupied vehicle was rolling down his driveway and ran over him as he tried to stop it.
He is credited as being one of five men to have won four consecutive New York Golden Gloves titles sharing that honour with Howard Davis Jr, Alex Ramos, Riddick Bowe and lastly Mark Breland who won five titles consecutively.
Moores amateur record reads 96-6.

In only his 9th pro bout, Moore would become the WBA junior middleweight champion when he knocked out Tadashi Mihara in the 6th round on February 2nd 1982.
He would defend said title 3 times before running into Roberto Duran who at the time the two would meet many thought Duran was way past his best.

The wind may have been considered old, but it still blew strong.

20/10/2026

🥊”Let me write it down for you. Muhammad Ali is a multimillionaire. Larry Holmes a multimillionaire. Mike Tyson he sleeps on a bed of money. HBO I made you motherf****rs a fortune. Oh I could go on and on. You love my black ass! You know why? Because I’m exciting. You ain’t making no movie on Bob Arum, are you? It’s entertainment, baby! That’s all! Heroes and villains, angels and devils, s**t if you didn’t have Don King you would have to invent them. And for all of you out there saying this and that, remember this: many fighters step into the ring, but only one is still king.”

Don King.

20/10/2026

🥊You don’t have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, you will succeed in your fight for that in which you believe….

Muhammad Ali

16/10/2026

🥊 “I grew up in boxing,I could and should have boxed. But I had a street fight when I was a boy,just 12 years old. It was with a man,one of those men that push kids around because they know they can’t push men around. He gave me a bad eye,my right eye.

I was blind in it for years but I made the man run and I chased him. I developed a cataract in the eye and finally I went to the doctor and he told me not to have the operation,that the eye would heal itself. He had a theory that the body would cure itself of anything of it could only survive long enough-even cancer!

In cancer,you see,the trouble is that the cancer kills the body before the body can kill the cancer. If you could live long enough the body would cure itself of cancer. Well,you know,he was right...

I did a little boxing,even with the bad eye,but you remember how they found out that Harry Greb had been fighting with a glass eye and the commissions began to give better physical examinations.

So I could never have been a real fighter. But I used to train at St.Nicks because in those days the arenas were used as gymnasiums,too. I was always a good hitter.”

Cus D’Amato

’Amato

16/10/2026

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Robert Shaun Williams, Roger Cordell, William Bilal

16/10/2026

🥊When I was in the ring, you really saw the best of me. Outside the ring, I was really some terrible fellow.

George Foreman

16/10/2026

🥊 “As I grew up,the white boys were my friends and pals. I ate with them,I played with them and slept at their homes. Their mothers gave me cookies and I ate at their tables. Nobody ever taught me that white men were superior to me.”

Jack Johnson AKA “the Galveston giant” the first black heavyweight world champion.

’ilArtha

16/10/2026

🥊“Sonny Liston acted tough and mean all the time,So I figured, if a man’s gonna be jumping up in the world, that’s how you gotta behave. So I really copied Sonny Liston, even though I didn’t know why he was doing certain things, and I ended up making myself mirror his personality.
I wasn’t intentionally being mean, I just figured, if you’re gonna be champ, as a young man, that’s how you gotta do it. I wanted to take care of my mom, and my brother, who was going to school. I wanted to make as much money as I could. So I sat down one day and I thought, ‘If I’m gonna do all the things I need to do, the best way for me to do it is to become a boxer.’
I made up my mind to pursue boxing as a profession; I didn’t like it, but it was an honest profession for me.”

George Foreman, the former Olympic gold medalist winner.
The former 2X heavyweight champion of the world.

16/10/2026

🥊 Fighting Ali was strange after the good times between us. When he left home to work with Angelo, I stayed in Louisville. Then I realised I couldn’t get anywhere boxing in Louisville, and Ali was the one who brought me to Miami. So that was good of him right there. He introduced me to Angelo, helped me meet different people,and encouraged me to build my career. We started sparring together before he fought Henry Cooper the first time, and stayed together pretty much until the layoff. And sparring,we were good for each other. He knew I always gave my best, and he knew he always had to defend himself, because if he didn’t, I’d tag him. I made him work,he made me work,and we got better together. Then they took his title away. That’s when I won the tournament for the WBA championship, and he wasn’t angry or anything like that. He was happy for me that I won it.
As for when we fought eachother, I thought I could beat him. We’d sparred a thousand rounds together,and I knew him good. There was nothing that he could do to me that I hadn’t seen before. I figured I had the style and speed to do what had to be done,and his legs weren’t the same anymore. It was a fair fight,and he won. The shot I looked for all night was the one that got me. He came over my jab with a right hand. I was looking for it; I’d gotten away from it all night. But in the end,that was what I got hit with, and he knocked me out in the twelfth round.
Afterward,there wasn’t any bitterness between us. I shook his hand and said ‘hey,you got me.’ And I still love and respect the man. Whatever he did,it came from the heart. He always treated me the way I wanted to be treated. I’m a Baptist,and no matter what was going on in his life, he never let religion come between us. From time to time,he talked about Islam,but I knew what I wanted to be and he never pushed me to join his religion. Once,some of the guys in training camp pressured me about it,but Ali told them, ‘Jimmy is my friend and that’s it;whatever he wants to do is his business.’ And the way I feel about Ali, he could call me anytime of the day or night,I don’t care where he’d be,and I’d be there for him.

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