To be honest, the years from 92 to 2000 were one of the most dazzling golden years in the history of boxing in the world. This is due to the fact that the three major boxing organizations have finally laid down their bodies and made concessions to the media forces led by HBO.
Since then, from the crazy and gorgeous MGM Las Vegas to the bustling and solemn Garden Plaza madison in New York, from the Satellite City Hotel in Portland in the west to the Citi Sports Center in Chicago in the east, professional boxing has begun its ultimate glamorous and magnificent chapter in this sports powerhouse floating on the Atlantic Ocean.
Madison Garden Plaza
MGM Grand Hotel
Let's think back to the stars who once shone in these dazzling fighting arenas.
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Riddick Bow: Born in 1967, New Yorker. He was a super heavyweight runner-up at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and his eight-year career was not long. Even so, the world-famous Evand Hollyfield was defeated by his punches, not only losing a WBC gold belt, but also completing the latter's three grand slams of world boxing. This is Bao's highlight moment, and it is also the peak that will be difficult to climb in the future, because success is difficult, and it is also rapid to slide.
Over the next few years, his negative pitch began to increase. There are many more images of falling to the ground than the gesture of victory. I remember that the most vivid scene in the shot is the incident of the bad boy Golotta hitting the lower body several times and crying bitterly. As for the rest of the time, it's a nobody' eye!
The professional record is 42 wins and 1 loss, 33 ko opponents. In 1997, Ridick Bow announced his retirement
To be honest, Bao's luck was a little worse. Parting ways with the coach at its peak was the main reason for its rapid decline. Enlistment and discharge from the army shows that his fragile character is no longer competent for high-intensity strike confrontation. In this boxing ring, he was more like a shining meteor, illuminating everything for a moment, and then disappearing completely silent.
Okami Index: 3 stars
Jones
Roy Jones Jr.: I only knew Tyson and Hollyfield when I watched boxing in my early years. One Sunday at noon, as usual, I watched the broadcast of Hebei Tv and caught up with Roy's one. It was at MGM, and I wonder who this gentleman is? Why is the scene so hot? It is estimated that more than 10,000 people are crowded together to see, including Tom Cruise and another sports star, Jordan, and several sports stars. He only took 1 and a half rounds to ko opponents that game, and to be honest, he really felt that the people on the scene were not worth the ticket price. It was later learned that Roy was a god appreciator, with muscles and hands, "destined to go down in history as one of the world's greatest boxers." "--- HBO commentator! Career wins 57 (40 KO) and 8 losses (4 KO) with no draw.
Roy has been involved in boxing since he was very young, playing a total of four and different levels in his career, middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight all took the gold belt of boxing, and is the three major organizations. And he always picks players who are larger than himself to play, and he has tried many times, and the winning rate is super high. Quite simply, this allows him to easily get more points, to put it bluntly, not to play with his classmates, skip the level.
Because of his excellent physical fitness, beautiful boxing and full of tension, he was deeply respected by experts and was predicted early to retire because he had "no opponent".
But I still can't understand, since Jones is so strong and good at challenging players who are heavier than himself, how come he has never met Sanjie? Maybe as far as the body is concerned, he is really not allowed to cross such a large level!
Okami Index: 5 stars
Hoya
Let's not talk about Paco, let's talk about the "golden boy" on the left who was even more popular than him at that time - Oscar. Della. Hoya
After 2000, I paid much less attention to boxing, and the number of times I heard about the Golden Boy was losing or losing! From "Honey" Mosley, to later Mayweather, and "Destroyer" Pago. Especially for Pago, this pre-match photo can be seen as a heroic twilight! And it was after this that Hoya retired from service.
In the middleweight before 2000, or in the world boxing world from 94 to 99, Hoya was the star of the world, and now he said that it was called traffic responsibility. Handsome is on the one hand, the boxing is really fierce. I don't have the impression that there are many scenes of his fatal blow, that is, the combination punch that cannot make the opponent resist at the right time, the speed is fast, the punching technique is accurate, and I even wonder if if the opponent's head is not hard enough, will it be hit by him, and it can be imagined that this is due to his solid basic skills. Hoya comes from a middle-class family and has money in his family, so he is very professional in boxing training.
Hoya's career record is 39 wins and 6 losses, with prize money totaling $160 million. Why talk about bonuses in particular? Because he is still a shrewd businessman! During the boxing period, he began to plan for his own retirement path, cooperating with the National Broadcasting Corporation, which belonged to the "Boxing Empire" column at the time, to produce the boxing hit reality show "Who is the Next Champion", which was then subcontracted and sold to media platforms around the world.
Now that he has been retired for many years, he has reappeared in the public eye as a real estate developer, magazine publisher, and influential boxing promoter.
Anyone who has seen boxing events in that period will probably be familiar with him, his name is Eric. Isaac, nicknamed "Bald Bean". Strictly speaking, Essas is not a boxing champion, because he has not played a licensed tournament and can only exit with a 4-round exhibition match. Radically willing, stemming from the physical exertion of his massive weight, if he can't knock down his opponent for a few rounds, it will be him who will eventually fall - either k or tired. But his strength and appearance are enough to sell, so after finally signing a contract with the company, his IBA association recognized it as a unique name of "permanently exempt from promotion challengers". To put it bluntly, it is a paddle player who never has points.
But in that brilliant boxing era, his fists really had a place, and it is difficult to say how good the arm span is, but it is enough to be fast and powerful. It's like a rebounding crowbar, hitting the head will lose its senses like a mess, why, faint! You can see the power of its heavy punch.
Bai Toudou's boxing career is 77 wins, 9 losses and 4 draws, 58 KO, and most of the boxers are not famous. He has also tried to challenge several well-known boxers, but there is no further follow-up.
In addition, he is also a martial arts and free wrestling actor, in a word, which one comes to pay, which fights!
God Index: 2 stars, typical of partial entertainment.
Sinon-Briggs: Nicknamed "Cannon", he is 1.91 meters tall, has an arm span of 2.02 meters, and is extremely well-conditioned. He was a WBO heavyweight boxer and the highest points boxer of '99. And defeated george foreman, which led to the retirement of a generation of boxing gods.
Sin Nong's first impression was the exaggerated golden braids, and to be honest, the boxer's long hair can only be said to be personality. In addition, the strong limbs are also prohibitive for most masters. The only person who seems to be comparable to him in stature seems to be Lewis, and that's true. In May '97 in Madison, the British Ko him.
Sin Nong's overall record is 67-53 wins, which is quite a lot, but the quality of opponents is limited. As for honors, the championship of an important association organization is also a sight to behold.
The 53-year-old black uncle cut off his long hair and looked kind. His family is on a rural ranch in Alabama, and in his spare time he listens to country folk songs and attends his friends' dances. It's just that whenever he is idle and alone and sees those slightly blurred video tapes, and the golden braids in them are not stingy, will he be able to taste the good times of the old days again?
Nassim Hamad
In the years when I started watching boxing, the British "prince" Nassim. Hamed is a one-sided being. As a lightweight invincible boxer, what he was most amazed at was his monopoly talent that no one could match.
At 1.64 meters tall, Hamed appeared in a particularly cool way, such as he would dress himself as an Indigenous Indian and wear a feathered crown! Or a light dancer, flipping into the stage amid the cheers of the audience. This is both a reflection of personal style and can cause great psychological pressure on opponents before the game.
In the game, his pace is extremely agile, and he seems to be playing with his opponents by taking steps back, but at the same time, he can also find flaws in his opponents from all angles, and then launch a devastating attack. In short, a game became a stage for him to resemble a theatrical performance, and there was only one protagonist: Hamed!
From 1992 to 2000, Nassim played 37 games and won 36, with an astonishing winning percentage. He also monopolized WBO for 5 consecutive years, the boxing king of IBF, from a prince to an undisputed king.
It wasn't until 2001 that Barrera ended Nassim's era with a faint score, the only defeat of his career. Perhaps at this time, Nassim, who had been exhausted by off-court life, saw through the law, so the battle in Atlantic City became his masterpiece, and since then, the light weight king has completely bid farewell to the boxing ring.
Nassim wrote an era of his own, which can be said to have both idealized himself and entertained the public, without any regrets.
Okami Index: 4 stars
Uncle Foreman, as we know him, is now a foodie, which is probably quite unexpected! He has his own food show production company, and personally participates in and promotes. The affinity temperament and Bo Yue's cooking techniques are difficult for people to associate him with the super boxer who was known as the "devil" more than a decade ago.
He had beaten Joe. Fraser, in one fell swoop, took two gold belts of sufficient authority. Ali, who also lost to the legend in the "Jungle Battle", paid enough tuition. In 28 years, "Devil" Foreman has won the heavyweight championships of the four major associations of WBC, WBA, IBF and WBU, creating countless moments of excellence. Countless names, either thunderous or rising, fell under his iron fist, and the number was even enough to form an army.
It was not until the 97 point loss to Briggs, nearly 30 years of boxing (two retirements and comebacks in the middle), 76 wins and 5 losses, 68 times to knock down the opponent's horror record was declared. However, it has long been written into the code of boxing, and for many years no one can do it. Even the junior Tyson did not face the appointment and cleverly chose to avoid the battle. Conceivably, for Michael and the other equally famous boxers, Foreman was a mountain that was insurmountable.