RIP 2019
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Lee Iacocca , the Chrysler’s he built were dogshit but the mustang more than makes up for that
Lee Iacocca, Chrysler's Onetime Savior, Has Died at Age 94
Whether it was a Mustang or a K-car, Lido Anthony Iacocca could, and did, sell it to America.
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Glyn Houston
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The very definition of a jobbing actor
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Rip Torn has died at 88 years old.
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Holy shit. RIP James Small.
Just saw on Twitter from Keith Quinn.
Only 50. Suspected heart attack.
https://m.sport24.co.za/Rugby/Springboks/breaking-springbok-legend-james-small-dies-20190710
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Holy shit. RIP James Small.
Just saw on Twitter from Keith Quinn.
Only 50. Suspected heart attack.
https://m.sport24.co.za/Rugby/Springboks/breaking-springbok-legend-james-small-dies-20190710
Awful news, way too young.
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Oh, man, that “Giant Sucking Sound.” Three days late, but I just heard Ross Perot died.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/business/economy/ross-perot-nafta-trade.html
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One of my favourite boxers of the 1980s and 1990s.
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One of my favourite boxers of the 1980s and 1990s.
"a cat with boxing gloves"
That's certainly some tribute from George Foreman.
RIP.
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@Bovidae Copy editors really should still exist:
'Sweet Pea was Whitaker's nickname, and it fit perfectly. He was a master of getting hit and not getting hit back,'
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@antipodean Yeah, I read that twice in the article and it still didn't make sense. Wait for the online edit.
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One of my favourite boxers of the 1980s and 1990s.
Wow, that is a shock. Was a huge follower of boxing in the 1980s and 90s. Was one of the best fighters I've ever seen (never in real life and he's one of the few I would have given a left nut to see in real life, the other being Sugar Ray leonard).
The fact he was only a few years older than me always helps you to relate in many ways.
Followed him through the olympics and then watched most of his pro fights when they were on pay-per-view or televised on free-to-air back in the day.
One of my Brothers and I were such big fans of Boxing during the heyday that was the 80s and 90s, that we subscribed to two different boxing magazines. "Sweet Pea" was a one of the megastars of te sport at the time and his career was well covered.
Shocked and shaken by this.
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@RoninWC I liked to watch a bit of boxing when I was younger. More the Olympic and light/welter weight stuff. Heavyweight boxing just seemed more like WWF to me.
The fight that I most remember of Whitaker was when he lost against De la Hoya in the mid 90s.
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@ACT-Crusader said in RIP 2019:
@RoninWC I liked to watch a bit of boxing when I was younger. More the Olympic and light/welter weight stuff. Heavyweight boxing just seemed more like WWF to me.
The fight that I most remember of Whitaker was when he lost against De la Hoya in the mid 90s.
Hmmmmm, trying to decide if I'm triggered by this post or not and @raznomore would probably put it far more eloquently than I could but some of the all time great boxers that I've followed have been heavyweights. Jeffries, Dempsey, Marciano, Louis, Liston, Ali, Foreman, Norton, Tyson, Lewis, Holyfield, Klitchko. I'm even developing quite the admiration for Fury. I do get that they throw far less than the lighter divisions but they're more potent in what they do if that makes sense ?
In saying that highlights of Robinson, Duran, Hagler, De la Hoya, Mayweather, Pacquiao etc are sensational as well.
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