Episode 6
Complete History of the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship (Part 2)
Hello Old Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear.
EPISODE SUMMARY
First, we relive the title reign of Iron Mike Tyson, a ferocious heavyweight whose behavior both in and out of the ring helped increase the sport's popularity, but also put its reputation in crisis. We'll also look at some of the other top heavyweights of the last thirty years (Lennox Lewis, Evander Holyfield, Riddick Bowe, the Klitschko Brothers), and what their reigns have meant to the Sweet Science. Finally, we talk about the state of heavyweight boxing in the 21st Century. What is the real culprit for the sports unpopularity? Is it MMA? Cable television? A lack of American-born fighters? Tune into Hello Old Sports to hear our thoughts!
Also, be sure to stay tuned after the episode for bonus content as we reveal the winner of the All-Time New York World Series between the All-Time Yankees and the All-Time New York National League Team.
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BOOKS TO COMPLIMENT THIS SERIES
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring 20s
Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink
At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing
The Boxing Kings: When American Heavyweights Ruled the Ring
HELLO OLD SPORTS BACKGROUND
Each week on “Hello, Old Sports” Andrew and Dan Neumann examine a different sports history topic—baseball, basketball, football, hockey, boxing, and anything else that comes to mind. We’ll travel back to 1920 to relive the founding of the Negro Leagues and Babe Ruth’s first season with the New York Yankees.
Or to 1967 to relive the closing drive of the “Ice Bowl” between the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys. Maybe even all the way back to 1884 and the first “World Series” between the Providence Grays of the National League and the New York Metropolitans of the American Association.
Andrew and Dan Neumann are your hosts and these brothers know a thing or two about living in some crazy sport's towns.
