thanks for putting this fight up...i trained at jack rennie's gym in marco polo street when australia was australia...trained a few nights alongside lionel rose.....kept a bond to that place and the sport ever since....jack rennie his trainer and lionel were great people...i met lionel a few times on the downslope of his life.....(Before bouncing back) hard to reconcile, but it is of the sport ...you search high to get to the top makes only the bottom lower.....i'd not seen this fight perhaps since it was contested a long time back......great to see.....for those who happen upon this fight and maybe don't know ...rose stopped the city of melbourne with crowds of over 100,000 when beating fighting harada for the title sometime in 1968......really no other fighter had galvanized a country as much as he, perhaps since les darcy around the time of the first world war.....
@@albertocorral9851 The general consensus is that Australia is no longer producing anyone of note but is instead full of gutless wimps, metrosexuals, cheaters, jumped up nobodies, obsequious media toadies, and people too scared to challenge authority. An argument I have some sympathy with.
If Lionel had connected with that famous right hander of his, before Lionel slipped at 4.15. The match would have been over and Rafael would have been on his way to Mars. LOL.
thanks for putting this fight up...i trained at jack rennie's gym in marco polo street when australia was australia...trained a few nights alongside lionel rose.....kept a bond to that place and the sport ever since....jack rennie his trainer and lionel were great people...i met lionel a few times on the downslope of his life.....(Before bouncing back) hard to reconcile, but it is of the sport ...you search high to get to the top makes only the bottom lower.....i'd not seen this fight perhaps since it was contested a long time back......great to see.....for those who happen upon this fight and maybe don't know ...rose stopped the city of melbourne with crowds of over 100,000 when beating fighting harada for the title sometime in 1968......really no other fighter had galvanized a country as much as he, perhaps since les darcy around the time of the first world war.....
Thank you for sharing mate. Always love hearing these stories and really cool to know you meet him! I'm reading his biography now
@@ClassicBoxingMatches what does he mean. When Australia was Australia. It still is
@@albertocorral9851 I can gather but maybe ask him
@@albertocorral9851 Aussie boxing is now a big WAS. Only Abos. or part Abos were world Champions so the whites of Australia are actually never wases.
@@albertocorral9851 The general consensus is that Australia is no longer producing anyone of note but is instead full of gutless wimps, metrosexuals, cheaters, jumped up nobodies, obsequious media toadies, and people too scared to challenge authority. An argument I have some sympathy with.
If Lionel had connected with that famous right hander of his, before Lionel slipped at 4.15. The match would have been over and Rafael would have been on his way to Mars. LOL.