Right you are! I saw Joe Louis, Ezzard Charles, Carmen Basilio, Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Archie Moore, Kid Gavilan, Ralph Tiger Jones, Ingemar Johannson, and many others in championsip fights on free TV!
[[In the old days Friday night was fight night..and it was free..
Right you are! I saw Joe Louis, Ezzard Charles, Carmen Basilio, Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Archie Moore, Kid Gavilan, Ralph Tiger Jones, Ingemar Johannson, and many others in championsip fights on free TV!]]
Exactly- pat per view killed boxing for the common man- and now mma too- I used to watch lidell, rampage, etc etc etc- all top tier fighters for free- now they are going to ppv- fighting went from being the everyman’s pastime sport to the rich person’s pastime sport-