Calzaghe vs Roy Jones Jr (2008). Both were a similar age, but Calzaghe’s technical focus aged much better than Jones Jr’s athletic style.
u/HallowedAndHarrowed — 1 day ago
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▲ 34 r/england
Boxer Randolph Turpin statue. Market Square, Warwick, Warwickshire. Turpin defeated Sugar Ray Robinson (generally ranked pound for pound number 1 of all time) in London in 1951. Turpin became the first Brit to hold the Middleweight World Championship, since the 19th century.
u/HallowedAndHarrowed — 2 days ago
▲ 0 r/AskUK
What UK individual did something truly amazing, but isn’t a household name today?
For me, Randolph Turpin who in 1951 in London defeated Sugar Ray Robinson to win the Middleweight Championship and become the first Brit to hold it since the 19th century.
It would be like if Henry Cooper beat Ali in 1963. But more impressive as SRR was world champion at the time and is ranked above Ali in pound for pound rankings.
Honorary mention goes to Tommy Farr who gave Joe Louis the hardest fight of his boxing prime in 1936 and who arguably should have beat Louis or at least drew (the crowds booed when Louis won, even the home crowd).
u/HallowedAndHarrowed — 2 days ago
What is the most understated achievement by a British person? For me, it is Randolph Turpin beating Sugar Ray Robinson (Ranked P4P best boxer of all time) for the middleweight championsihp in 1951 in London. Too often British stories are about loveable losers, not in this case.
u/HallowedAndHarrowed — 3 days ago
▲ 65 r/BritInfo
Chesapeake Mill in Wickham, was made from wood from the American USS Chesapeake. The Chesapeake was captured after engaging the Royal Navy’s HMS Shannon in 1813. The Shannon’s intentionally low-key appearance disguised the fact that it was captained by gunnery expert Philip Brooke.
u/HallowedAndHarrowed — 4 days ago
▲ 8 r/okmatewanker
Can we have an updated version of this for the World Cup?
u/HallowedAndHarrowed — 4 days ago
▲ 1 r/AskUK
People who watched Lennox Lewis fight Mike Tyson in 2002. What was the build up like?
Mike Tyson was younger than Lewis by the way. He was also younger than Buster Douglas in 1990 and younger than Evander Holyfield in 1996, before the “Tyson was past his prime” crowd get here.
u/HallowedAndHarrowed — 5 days ago
▲ 0 r/OldSchoolCool
Gerrie Coetzee the first African world heavyweight champion (1980’s). Coetzee hit Michael Dokes so hard, with his KO punch, that he broke his own hand.
u/HallowedAndHarrowed — 5 days ago
▲ 83 r/videos
Lennox Lewis beats the brakes off “forever past his Prime” Mike Tyson (2002). Lewis was in fact older than Tyson when they met.
youtube.comu/HallowedAndHarrowed — 5 days ago
▲ 3 r/decadeology
The longest lived boxing heavyweight of all time, Max Schmeling, saw Weimar Germany, won the championship, defeated Joe Louis, served in WW2, made a boxing comeback, became the German face of Coca-Cola, was a mentor to Steffi Graf and died wealthy aged 99.
u/HallowedAndHarrowed — 5 days ago
In Number Theory, the most challenging Prime is Prime Mike Tyson. This is dependent on whether Tyson wins. Some indeed argue he was no longer Prime as early as 23 when he lost to a 29 year old Buster Douglas.
u/HallowedAndHarrowed — 6 days ago
▲ 32 r/OldSchoolCool
Max Schmeling (1930’s), the first boxer to defeat Joe Louis, Schmeling also holds the record of being the longest lived former boxing heavyweight champion, having reached 99.
u/HallowedAndHarrowed — 6 days ago
▲ 59 r/wikipedia
Max Schmeling, the first boxer to defeat Joe Louis (who was nearly a decade younger than Schmeling), is the longest lived heavyweight boxing champion in history, living to 99.
wikipedia.orgu/HallowedAndHarrowed — 6 days ago
▲ 12 r/OldSchoolCool
Buster Douglas (1980’s), would become the first boxer to defeat Mike Tyson, by 10th Round KO in 1990.
u/HallowedAndHarrowed — 6 days ago
▲ 16 r/AskBrits
People who watched Lennox Lewis beat the breaks off the younger so-called “baddest man on the planet” Mike Tyson live in 2002, what was it like?
u/HallowedAndHarrowed — 7 days ago
P4P GOAT Sugar Ray Robinson becomes the first boxer to receive a tea-bag (1952).
u/HallowedAndHarrowed — 7 days ago
Joey Maxim is the only boxer to ever win by stoppage against Sugar Ray Robinson (1952). The two fought in the middle of a heatwave, with Maxim left standing and Robinson collapsing in the heat. It is the only time in 200 fights that Robinson didn’t go the distance.
u/HallowedAndHarrowed — 7 days ago
▲ 1 r/iphonehelp
Anyone found a solution to this issue? Multiple alarm buttons flashing when one is pressed.
reddit.comu/HallowedAndHarrowed — 7 days ago
▲ 63 r/flicks
Stephen King criticised The Shining (1980), as being “cold”, but that’s what makes the movie so good.
King does concepts well, but the execution less so. What makes Kubrick’s Shining so good is exactly its coldness. Whereas Ullman in the book is a pompous bully, he works better as the amiable but strangely sinister Barry Nelson.
Cycles of violence, and the pervading sense that they are ever decreasing makes for a better adaptation, than King gives credit to.
u/HallowedAndHarrowed — 9 days ago
▲ 3 r/martialarts
“It rattled my ancestors.” Sir Henry Cooper knocks Muhammad Ali down (1963), with his signature left hook, known as “Enry’s Ammer”.
youtube.comu/HallowedAndHarrowed — 9 days ago