Thomas Hearns, Dennis Andries And How “The Hackney Rock” Came Back After Suffering A Brutal Defeat
The Dennis Andries story could be made into a movie, and what a great, inspiring, and uplifting film it really could be.
The Dennis Andries story could be made into a movie, and what a great, inspiring, and uplifting film it really could be.
Some fights are, by no way of an exaggeration, tiring even to watch. Case in point, the third and final light heavyweight war between the superbly evenly matched Jeff Harding and Dennis Andries.
There have been quite a few superb away wins scored by British fighters over the years; fights that saw the underdog British warrior go to the other guy’s home country, sometimes his backyard, and bring home the victory, and with it the title.
After taking the savage, multi-knockdown beating he took from the great Thomas Hearns in March of 1987, Dennis Andries, if he was a lesser man than he was, would have walked away from boxing.