Joe Bugner

Joe Bugner was very much a gifted heavyweight who was so often on the receiving end of a bad wrap: “Too negative.”

Joe Bugner, who fought during the Golden Era of heavyweight boxing, the Hungarian-born warrior sharing a ring with, amongst others, Joe Frazier, Muhammad Ali, and Earnie Shavers, is sadly fighting a fight he cannot win today.

One would have thought a heavyweight boxer who achieved the following: European champ three times, British and Commonwealth champ twice, picked up big wins over the likes of Jimmy Ellis, Mac Foster, Jose Luis Garcia, Chuck Wepner, and Henry Cooper, took both Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier the distance (twice in the case of Ali) would have got praise and respect in equal amounts.