The Heavyweight Championship of the Soviet Union 1917 - 1991

[Willow The Wisp]

Your bait attracts bad fish who poison the pond.

Lol.....explain that to me...as if I were a child.

[The Old LefHook]

Lol.....explain that to me...as if I were a child.

Against my principles to explain metaphors. Heave! Ho! You can do it.

[QueensburyRules]

This thread is too Geeked and it reminds me of trying to Kickstart my old 75' Maico. But I'll give it one more kick before I leave it behind. So a Joe Louis vs. Nicolai Fyodrorovich Korolyov fight at 15 rounds would have been historically important IMO. Behind the Iron Curtain lurking were tough people living hard lives. This was and remains the ideal breeding grounds for good fighters who make the big sacrifices in order to learn how to fight hands on. To this very day, Many will swear that Nicolai Korolyov was the best heavyweight that country (or countries, in today's world map language) ever produced. The fall of communism let loose a range of new cultures that had been rolled up into the Soviet program out into the professional ranks. These would lead to Gennadiy Golovkin, Sergey Kovalev, Mairis Briedis, Vasyl Lomachenco, Artur Grigorian, Oleksandr Usyk, Vasilly Jirov, Grigory Drozd, Ruslan Chagaev, Yuri Arbachakov, Murat Gasssiev, Roman Karmazin, Denis Lebedev, Alexander Povetkin, Dmitril Bivol, and of course, the Klitschko Brothers, just to scratch the surface. We might then imagine that the Legendary Russian might just have offered more than just another "bum of the month" to Louis in the pre-war years!!!!!!

- - Point being less than a handful of US boxing geeks would've known of any of these fighters at any point of time, so it become lost history rediscovered eons afterwards by a new generation of obscure boxing geeks to be buried under modern lurid headlines yet again

My 1971 Kawasaki H1 500 was the fastest production motorcycle made in my day that I stripped down and modified for greater performance that yielded an odd convergence of improved gas mileage, 35 mpg in town that I never raced in and 50-80 mpg on extended distances. Don't know what the mpg was when racing it, but at any point in time I could walk over cold, set the choke, pull out the kick starter, and punch out a straight right arm start in front of any snickering Harley riders who spent a half hour sweating buckets falling over in fatigue until they could start their bikes.

[ShoulderRoll]

- - Point being less than a handful of US boxing geeks would've known of any of these fighters at any point of time, so it become lost history rediscovered eons afterwards by a new generation of obscure boxing geeks to be buried under modern lurid headlines yet again

My 1971 Kawasaki H1 500 was the fastest production motorcycle made in my day that I stripped down and modified for greater performance that yielded an odd convergence of improved gas mileage, 35 mpg in town that I never raced in and 50-80 mpg on extended distances. Don't know what the mpg was when racing it, but at any point in time I could walk over cold, set the choke, pull out the kick starter, and punch out a straight right arm start in front of any snickering Harley riders who spent a half hour sweating buckets falling over in fatigue until they could start their bikes.

It figures you would ride a rice rocket instead of buying American.

[Willie Pep 229]

Those were great bikes.

TRIVIA - Harley Davidson had the contract to supply South Vietnam with motor scooters.

Yep, many of those scooters you see in the VN War photos are HD produced under a shell company by a different name.

HD couldn't bare the thought of being known for making scooters, it would destroy their brand, but couldn't bring themseleves to walk away from all that War spending money.

They still don't admit they were involved. LOL

[QueensburyRules]

It figures you would ride a rice rocket instead of buying American.

- - Yup, I was cool before cool became cool...just da facts, ma'am...