Just for fun

[bassofspades]

Just between us parkies....

[AmyLindy]

Ah, had to scroll back for the caption: “My Fav autographed pic” ✍️ ha ha!

[laglag]

Too funny 🤣

[NRyan]

Love it!

[GymBag]

Interesting, The greatest boxer of all time has his hands wrapped, ready to put gloves on.

Thank you for this

[jeeves19 in reply to GymBag]

You’re referring to Sugar Ray Robinson there I presume Gymbag🤔😊

[GymBag in reply to jeeves19]

Muhammad Ali said it himself "I am the greatest" and he was, both in boxing and in life.

Sugar Ray was good , so were a lot of boxers but not the greatest.

When Michal J Fox announced to the world that he had PD, Ali called him the next day.

[jeeves19 in reply to GymBag]

Muhammad was probably the best heavyweight, although I sometimes think Joe Louis might have been. Joe was the champ for about 10 years and would at times fight once a month. And there was only one belt, no WBA/WBC crap. But Muhammad didn’t really think he was the greatest. He always said that Sugar was ‘pound for pound’ the greatest. Here’s his view on the latter: He called Sugar Ray "the king, the master, my idol."

Good to talk about the fight game Gymbag. I boxed a lot as a kid and did reasonably well at college level, winning the welterweight division for U.K. university championship. Maybe a few punches gave me PD?! I certainly saw stars more than once 🤔

[GymBag]

I had occasion to have a few rounds in my youth , and I also regret the beating my brain took from sports. Broke a few football helmets and my scull. Lacrosse hard Indian rubber balls I remember well.

We both know that there is no such thing as the best boxer of all time. We would have to ignore people like Joe, and Rocky Marciano .

It seems like everyone does not know about or care about the past . How fast the trends and fads fade and important people and events and ideals are forgotten.

Thanks for posting the picture.

I wonder why he is dressed with his hands wrapped.

[jeeves19]

That’s the trouble with being an ex history teacher. I probably think about the past more than one should! As a young man, my own hero of ‘my era’ was Hagler, although I would concede that Ray Leonard gave him a boxing lesson in their fight, 🤔☹️