What about the people that bet on Buddy?
They all bet on Lebron and instead of pooling their cash with a front they all bet it up themselves.... Would have loved to have seen the line at the cage......
What about the people that bet on Buddy?
I am going to tell you all something ad this may or may not mean anything to anyone. I have spent a bit of time with Buddy and one time I decided to bring this topic up to him. I hadn't before as I am sure it isn't one of his favorite things to talk about after all these years. Remember this was just me and Buddy nobody else around. the chat went something like this.
Me: Buddy. I got to ask you something.
BH: Whats that?
Me: The Challenge of Champions against Mike LeBron, was it a dump?? You know people think it was. Now Buddy, this is for me only. I just want to know and I will never speak a word of it to ANYONE if you tell me you dumped and if I do you can call me a liar.
BH: Mark, it wasn't a dump, I dogged my brains out. That all.
I left it at that. Maybe he didn't trust me to tell me, maybe it's one of those secrets that you just can never tell anyone or maybe he was just telling the truth. He could have told me if it happened. Just my 2 cents for what its worth.
i canno think of a shot I have not seen missed in this game.I just did it in my first round last weekend, missing a REALLY easy shot, and also scratching in the side for NO REASON....I have no idea what I was thinking (or not thinking).
Then I won 12 straight matches after this, so you can't predict what will happen....I figured I'd lose one of my next three matches....but it wan't "in the stars".
Mike Sigel used to say "it's all in the stars" and after many years I think it may be "fate," or some other esoteric factor. 'The Game is the Teacher'
Why would you write that when Buddy ended up winning that game? That was game 16 and made it 8-8.
I think he probably wanted to scratch in the side on the 7 ball shot. After LeBron missed the 8 and left it parked in front of the side pocket Hall had no choice but to win the game.
It's the 8/9 combo in game 17 that gives it away.
ONB
people find it hard to admit to dumping
early mma (then known as nhb) had a fair amount of dumping
a well known fighter in his day took a huge dive for a huge paycheque on a huge stage, everyone knew but he still will not admit it to this day
I am going to tell you all something ad this may or may not mean anything to anyone. I have spent a bit of time with Buddy and one time I decided to bring this topic up to him. I hadn't before as I am sure it isn't one of his favorite things to talk about after all these years. Remember this was just me and Buddy nobody else around. the chat went something like this.
Me: Buddy. I got to ask you something.
BH: Whats that?
Me: The Challenge of Champions against Mike LeBron, was it a dump?? You know people think it was. Now Buddy, this is for me only. I just want to know and I will never speak a word of it to ANYONE if you tell me you dumped and if I do you can call me a liar.
BH: Mark, it wasn't a dump, I dogged my brains out. That all.
I left it at that. Maybe he didn't trust me to tell meJeez, imagine that., maybe it's one of those secrets that you just can never tell anyone or maybe he was just telling the truth. He could have told me if it happened.Yeah, because you would never repeat it. Just my 2 cents for what its worth.
After missing the 8 ball he didnt think he would have left mike such a bad leave on the 8, so when mike missed it, buddy had no choice but to make it and send the game hill hill
I was there 10' away from the table. I KNOW what I saw and I also know the truth about this travesty. So please spare me the crap. It was a black mark on the sport!
You can have your opinion, but is that the dump wows on.
You know buddy has won more than that, and playing on the square too, so the possibility of him actually losing $ would have been there, unlike the match with lebron.
Yes, everyone has a right to believe that every football game, boxing match and basketball game that they lose betting on is "a dump"......some humans even believe wilder things.
The fact is Buddy dogged it, and so did Mike....plain and simple.
The Facts are that "Vegas" continued putting the line up as if nothing happened and I saw that with my own eyes at a subsequent 'Challenge of Champions' that I PLAYED IN.
I have a feeling that there were "savers" made by many of the players, but believing the entire tournament was "rigged" is ludicrous, I know this is a fairy tale for sure.
I know it's hard to believe, but even the very best players "dog it"....except for me of course. jk 'The Game is the Teacher'
Watch the misses Howard made on the 9 ball and the 2 ball.
Jumped right up acting like he wasn't supposed to miss.
PLEASE !!!!
Why would Howard and Hall shoot their brains out playing someone they could give the 7-ball or the 7-out ????
What's even more telling are the announcers predicting some strange things happen when there's so much money on the line.
And one of them actually said Lebron was dangerous.
i canno think of a shot I have not seen missed in this game.
ASs myu old buddy Danny Medina used to say," I have missed many that were harder to miss than to make'!
Mike Lebron played just as well in short races as Hall, or Howard.....that's a fact.
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Must be why he was a long shot .
I don't have a proof Sonny Liston took a dive against Ali in their rematch.
He was not tried and convicted.
But, Liston dropping on a short right from someone who was not known for one-punch KO, then rolling over and then getting up while Jersey Joe was all confused of the count.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TADbnYQJg7w
PS
I believe Jay.