nobogey72
02-10-2008, 01:39 AM
For anybody that is concerned about it taking theirselves or their kids too long to get out of college, check out this week's Sports Illustrated. (don't know how to do the fancy stuff or I'd put the link on here) For the younguns on here that don't recognize the name, he grew up in Abilene played football at ACU 72-76 and then decided he wanted to be a pro boxer. After 5 years and starting from scratch, he beat some names like Ernie Shaver, Ken Norton, and fought for the Heavyweight Championship against Larry Holmes. He got the crap beat out of him but went all 15 rounds and never went down, causing Howard Cosell to quit covering boxing due to the brutality of that fight. Randall later said on Johnny Carson that unless he could find a cure for cancer, he didn't think he could make a better contribution to mankind (getting Cosell to quit). He made several movies (due to his extremely ugly face and a little talent) the best known of which was the motorcycle riding "warthog from hell" in Raising Arizona. He has been in every Jim Carey movie for the last decade in some form or another, and was in many episodes of Walker Texas Ranger. He recently graduated from Temple University with a degree in Sports Management at age 54. He has made a living for the last 10 years or so by being a sparring partner in Philly. I grew up with him from Kindergarten through college and talk to him regularly but had no idea that he had gone back to school. Quite a colorful character. He still claims that if the Holmes fight had lasted another 15 or 20 rounds, that he would have won. UFC just came along about 20 or 25 years too late. He was one bad boy. I saw him kick a light bulb out of a ceiling in the dorm at ACU and land on his feet. He ended up getting kicked out of ACU for shooting flaming arrows at the other dorm across the campus, and his only comment after being caught wearing a loin cloth and bandana with the bow in his hand after shooting the arrows, was that he was bored. That's when he just flat drove his old car to Philadelphia and went in a gym and told someone that he wanted to learn to box. He caught the eye of Joe Frazier, and that's how it started. He was on Johnny Carson several times through his carreer and probably his most famous quote was that there were some out there that could probably beat him in the ring, but lock us in a phone booth and the smart money will be on me.:eek: :clap: :clap: