scootz
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 posted on 8/11/11 at 08:12 AM |
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RIP Smokin Joe
Damn it... another of my childhood idols has died! Not sure I like this growing-old thing!
RIP Joe!
It's Evolution Baby!
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designer
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| posted on 8/11/11 at 08:16 AM |
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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.
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Hector.Brocklebank
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| posted on 8/11/11 at 09:14 AM |
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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 
Some people can never handle the truth and always try to shoot the messenger instead of taking an honest look in the mirror (its always easier to
blame another than to face reality), but secretly they wish they could grow a pair and be the messenger !!!
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chrisxr2
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| posted on 8/11/11 at 10:55 AM |
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Not the same
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.
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scootz
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| posted on 8/11/11 at 12:03 PM |
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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!?
It's Evolution Baby!
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woodster
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| posted on 8/11/11 at 12:58 PM |
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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
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