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Ring Muggings: Part 28

May 19, 2015 by Ted Sares 7 Comments

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Weaver vs. Anthony (November 1984)

By Ted Sares

In November 1984, I watched in amazement as the “Fighting Schoolteacher,” Tony Anthony (16-2) out of Detroit, take out heavy handed Mike “Hercules” Weaver with a crunching left hook. A stunned Weaver sagged to the canvas. The shocking ending came in a fight at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Hercules was done. But so was The Schoolteacher as he had perpetrated an illegal ring mugging (no oxymoron).

Anthony had run across the ring after the bell sounded ending round one and inexplicably struck the unsuspecting Weaver. Poor Mike had done nothing to deserve it. School ended early for Tony as he was summarily DQd. I remember laughing my head off as Tony tried to explain that he did not hear the bell

This would be a precursor to what the “Harlem Hammer,” James Butler, would do to Richard Grant at the Roseland Ballroom in, New York City in 2001. However, that one was far more premeditated and dangerous and was itself a precursor to a subsequent and unimaginable tragedy also involving Butler that I would just as soon forget.

Tony Anthony went on to beat undefeated Eddie Richardson in his next bout and finished 18-5. The inconsistent but exciting Weaver, a chill-or-be-chilled type, ended up with a deceptive 41-18-1. His fine career was defined by his surprisingly game effort against Larry Holmes in 1979, and his dramatic 15th round KO of Big John Tate to win the WBA heavyweight title in 1980. That same year, Weaver travelled to Sun City in South Africa and TKOd Gerrie Coetzee, aka “The Bionic Hand,” on his home turf. As a concession to trivia, the referee in the Tate-Weaver bout was none other than Ernesto Magana who later refereed the Roberto Duran vs. Davey Moore title fight at Madison Square Garden in 1983 when an aroused Duran beat Moore. Magana suffered decision paralysis in that one, allowing the fight to become a slaughter. To round out this string of memories, Luis Resto used lethal weapons to mug and blind Irish Billy Collins Jr. on the undercard in another “illegal ring mugging.”

 

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Ring Muggings: Part One

Ring Muggings: Part Two

Ring Muggings: Part Three

Ring Muggings: Part Four

Ring Muggings: Part Five

Ring Muggings: Part Six

Ring Muggings: Part Seven

Ring Muggings: Part Eight

Ring Muggings: Part Nine

Ring Muggings: Part Ten

Ring Muggings: Part Eleven

Ring Muggings: Part Twelve

Ring Muggings: Part Thirteen

Ring Muggings: Part Fourteen

Ring Muggings: Part Fifteen

Ring Muggings: Part Sixteen

Ring Muggings: Part Seventeen

Ring Muggings: Part Eighteen

Ring Muggings: Part Nineteen

Ring Muggings: Part Twenty

Ring Muggings: Part Twenty-One

Ring Muggings: Part Twenty-Two

Ring Muggings: Part Twenty-Three

Ring Muggings: Part Twenty-Four

Ring Muggings: Part Twenty-Five

Ring Muggings: Part Twenty-Six

Ring Muggings: Part Twenty-Seven

Ted Sares
Ted Sares
Ted Sares is one of the world’s oldest active power lifters and holds several records in the Grand Master class. A member of Ring 4’s Boxing Hall of Fame, he enjoys writing about boxing.

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