Damn it... another of my childhood idols has died! Not sure I like this growing-old thing!

RIP Joe!

A hero from 'the' days of boxing.

What an era that was! Every couple of months, was a battle of giants.

No such thing as selecting opponents then.

We are all growing old, as much as i hate it, there is nothing we can do about it.

Can you imagine the feeling of laying in a hospital bed, all faculties still operating but the old body well and truly failing, then hearing the nurse telling your family "he is at peace and it wont be long now !!!" (SHIT we are going in here)

and there would be not a thing we could do about it..............


Sigh

I finf it hard to believe in 40 years or so who of todays crop of so called celebrities and sportspeople will be remembered as fondly as the likes that have recently died after leaving such a legacy on the world, maybe i am just getting old.

He may not have been the brightest or the most technical of fighters, but he had a hell of a left hook and the heart of a lion!

His third fight with Ali was just astonishing. Two big men shouldn't have been able to trade like that for 14 rounds in the searing wet heat of Manilla.

Ali admitted some years after this fight that if Joe had answered the bell for the 15th (his trainer Eddie Fuch retired him against his wishes), then he (Ali) would have quit instead. Ali collapsed after the fight and later said it was 'the closest I have ever come to death'.

I am genuinely gutted! Why can't guys like this live forever!?

R.I.P Joe a true old school boxing legend, brings back my childhood listening to harry carpenter on the radio ... as said above i don't like getting old and watching all my heros dropping off