RIP Scott LeDoux

1949-2011, 62 years old, dead from Lou Gehrig's Disease

former one-time contender, famously knocked that idiot Cosell's toupee off of his head after being allegedly robbed during a fight in the ill-fated and ultimately scandalous United States Boxing Championships fiasco on ABC

later a commentator, notably on ESPN, and then finally a politician in his native Minnesota

 

Tough, Durable Cat in the Tex Cobb Mold, but Not QUITE as "Cool" as Cobb was...Still, Scott LeDoux was a PLAYER in the Heavyweight Mix for a Hot Minute...He was a CREDIBLE Fighter for Sure, if Not Special....

R.I.P., Mr. LeDoux


REEDray:

 

yup, he was brave and game... a sitting duck against the best of the best, but a tough and very willing one

 

Wow, this is the first place I'm hearing of it. RIP Scott.

 

Know him best as a broadcaster. RIP Mr. LeDoux

 

Just heard this. RIP Scott..

My biggest memory of LeDoux was him getting up after being counted out against Foreman and wanting to keep fighting.

He was tough but only relatively skilled with almost zero natural ability compared to his peers.

 

This one makes me feel old. It wasn't that long ago when he was sparring with Lennox Lewis et al for his broadcasting role on ESPN2.

 

He was on Real Sports with Bryant Gumble on a topic on Lou Gehrig Disease,he was in a wheelchair and had difficulty breathing.He said that he signed a waiver to not use a breathing machine and decided to just let nature take its course.

 

man, ALS is a godawful way to go

 

R.I.P.

LeDoux wasn't very skilled, but he gave it his best against some quality opponents.

 

Ah yes, Scott LeDouche, the Fighting Freshman, the sort of fighter pfp and Fighter of the Year resume's are made of.

Nice guy to listen to, his ballsy show-down with Ken Norton is what Stallone should have based Rocky on, and not Ali vs Wepner.

 

:boohoo:

 

When is Scott LeDoux's Name EVER Brought Up to Enhance Another Fighter's Resume???...


REED:Lok:

 

happens every day at www.duanebobickfuckingrulesmotherfuckers.com
:nono:

 

:laughing:

LeDoux was one of the 4 fighters that George Foreman beat in 1976 to earn him the title of "Fighter of the Year". So clearly somebody was regarding LeDoux as a viable name on a resume. When you consider that Joe Frazier* was another one of the four, you begin to see that LeDoux was not just making up the numbers as such. Somebody actually thought that LeDoux counted for something so much so that beating him and Joe Frazier ** was one half of a great year for George.

LeDoux's battle with Norton was great stuff and as I say, it was more akin to the Rocky theme than Ali-Wepner was. LeDoux's forcing Norton to wilt leaving Ken draped over the ropes like a wet towel- was a large feather in LeDouxs cap.



Its bad for any person of any character to get Lou Gehrigs disease. For an able-bodied man like LeDoux to be worn down by it must be especially hard.

RIP

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*Donor Cards Man Of The Year for 1976
** Donor Cards Man Of The Year For 1977

 

Foreman Also Fought Ron Lyle, in their EPIC Slugfest, that Same Year...Frazier, Lyle & LeDoux (ALL By KO) ISN'T a Bad Year @ All....REED Still FAILS to See how Anybody's Ever TRUMPETED Scott LeDoux More than was Warranted Though...



REED:mj:

 

when a guy wins fighter of the year, they always name his whole year, all of his fights... what Irish fails to grasp is that it was considered a bit of re-emergence year for Foreman and beating Lyle and Frazier like he did made people think of his glory days... LeDoux just happened to be another guy he knocked out that year

 

As was Frazier, who, by 1976, was just that.........another guy. Post-Manila Frazier never leaves home without his donor card. Maybe the Lyle fight swung it for George, I just got the feeling the pundits must have rated Scott a bit more. Maybe he was just the tail-end of a good year for George.

 

agREED......although I think Chris Byrd might have stopped that version of Joe, and maybe just as fast.

Regardless, its horrific for normal people to get degenerative diseases, for former athletes to get them must be truly heartbreaking.

Roy needs to be careful or it could be him.:doh:

 

all hindsight, man, every bit of it, especially everything about Frazier

 

MAybe, but whilst hindsight is often 20-20, it is also often true. Frazier spent 6 weeks in hospital after the first Ali fight, then Foreman bashed him, then Ali bashed him again, then there was Manila. Saying that Joe, now minus his hair, might have been cranially challenged by 1976 should have been obvious to one and all in 1976, never mind today.

 

none of that matters one bit

hoenstly, you could pick apart virtually any fighter of the year selection ever... you are choosing this one so that you can once again go on a tangent about heavyweights of american extraction and how ovverrated they are/were, the thing you are most obsessed with

 

You need help. I said Joe Frazier was shot by 1976. Live with it.

 

you need help

a thread about a decent guy who died a horrible death... a brave pug who gave his best effort against guys he had no business being in the same ring with, and all you can do is once again use it as an excuse to denigrate another heavyweight from the Prehisklitschko period, all in an attempt to once again act like the heavyweight division right now is as good as ever

 

You've finally gone mad mate.

 

::really?

why else would you bring it up?

 

I was suggesting that the fight-writers knew that Frazier was shot, and that therefore the win over LeDoux was more significant in their awarding the FOTY title to Foreman, than was first thought. Unless they thought that Joe Frazier had something left after Ali-Frazier I, Ali-Frazier II, Ali-Frazier III and Caracas to boot.:Lok:

I brought that up in response to Reed's assertion that nobody every really tried to parlay a win over LeDoux into a whole load.

Ironically, in affording credibility to one of the worst heavyweight contenders of the era, I am doing that era a service, rather than a disservice.

 

exactly my point

they obviously DIDN'T know that

 

Okay then :dunno:

LeDoux was easy to listen to and easy to watch. If he had gotten the W vs Spinks and Norton they would have been major feathers in his cap.

 

Where the fuck have you been coddles?.. ignoring my curfew ay... well hopefully your grounded :nono: ..