[LasVegasMac]

Ali/Frazier was whan I started paying attention to Boxing

That was great stuff. And with Howard Cosell doing the ring side.....

The Thrilla in Manilla...

Compared to what, today?

Mike Tyson coulda / shoulda been the best ever - just could not handle it.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.....rope a dope....Smokin' Joe taking a beating that would kill most anyone else...but there he was....

I also loved to watch "Sugar Ray" Leonard - damn he was fast. And Tommy "Hit Man" Hearns. And that POS that uttered the wussy words, "No mas, no mas". And "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler - who can forget the bout between him and Sugar Ray? And Hector "Macho" Commacho - greased lightning.

But the big boys - LL should have been a generation ago - with the rest of the "good" ones.

Just my $0.05 worth.

LVM

[jra]

That division (middleweights?) was at its zenith in my teenage years. I have fond memories of watching bouts with my Dad...

[TalBlack]

With the Ali/Frazier intro to boxing I expected it to always be that exciting. I thought Tyson with his power and 5 punch combinations was a prospect for exciting times but we all saw how that turned out.

Holmes was better than I gave him credit for at the time. He suffered for coming up so close to Ali. I saw him put Ali away for the last time, sad night...in many ways.