Greatest Sporting Moments

[RussellYid]

I just wanted to gather today to discuss your favourite sporting moments. They can be as obvious or as obscure as you like. With pictures/video or without. Do they hold a special place in your heart from a reason?

I'll start off with one from 20 years ago... to the day.

Bruno rocks Tyson before losing, February 25th 1989

It's probably my first sporting memory. I was six years old and being the youngest of four boys, I watched what they watched and we've always been a boxing-mad family.

3' 40" into the video below you'll see why it's one of my favourite sporting moments. Tyson was a year away from losing to Buster Douglas and was unstoppable. But Bruno rocked him. I know it's only a 'rock' but I remember the roof coming off in the Russell house-hold.

Great memories and I ain't embarrassed in the slightest to say I was/am a huge Frank Bruno fan. I know he wasn't the greatest boxer in the world (though his jab was a joy to behold) but he suffered in and out of the ring and has a place in the Russell's hearts.

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[spurs mental]

Dont know how to embed but this is one of the greatest golf shots I have ever seen, and I'd say most people would agree. Tiger Woods chip in at the 16th hole at Augusta in The Masters 2005 was truly one of the best moments in golf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nJfhUGM4Yc

 

[RussellYid]

WWE Screws Bret Hart, November 9th 1997

Ok, so it's maybe not a sport... But what an amazing moment.

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After all Bret had done... Unbelievable.

Behind the scenes that night must have been amazing. Lots of rumours about it.

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One of the best wrestling videos ever above.

 

[Welshiespursboyo]

My own personal gem was when I was playing rugby at school and there was a mentally deficient kid playing with us - he was a nice guy but had mental problems and we used to let him play and go easy on him as I dont think he had many real friends, poor guy.
Anyway, I was running down the wing with open space - easy try opportunity, but this dude was running next to me and I thought I'd let him score so I passed him the ball - much to his delight - he continued running, whilst looking at me grinning, and the stupid sod ran straight into the rugby goal post, dropping the ball and knocking himself out in the process!

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

 

[RussellYid]

My own personal gem was when I was playing rugby at school and there was a mentally deficient kid playing with us - he was a nice guy but had mental problems and we used to let him play and go easy on him as I dont think he had many real friends, poor guy.
Anyway, I was running down the wing with open space - easy try opportunity, but this dude was running next to me and I thought I'd let him score so I passed him the ball - much to his delight - he continued running, whilst looking at me grinning, and the stupid sod ran straight into the rugby goal post, dropping the ball and knocking himself out in the process!

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

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Absolute gold!

I once saved three penalties in a game. It was my second game for my Sunday league team.

Great... but we did win 9-3 so it was hardly a match winning display.

 

[Tickers]

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In the unimprovable words of Richie: "Jones! Bowden! Kasprowicz... the man to go, and Harmison has done it."

From the brink of utter despair to an unbeatable high in the space of two seconds after three-and-a-half days of impossibly perfect sporting drama.

Proof, if it were needed, that Test cricket is sport's greatest achievement.

 

[milkman]

One of them was Woody scoring the winner in the CC final.

another great sporting moment was when I was playing football, a corner came in and was headed out of the box. Me (being a left wing back) was hovering outside the box and that headed ball came to me, which I volleyed from about 25 yards into the bottom left hand corner!

 

[haxman]

I just wanted to gather today to discuss your favourite sporting moments. They can be as obvious or as obscure as you like. With pictures/video or without. Do they hold a special place in your heart from a reason?

I'll start off with one from 20 years ago... to the day.

Bruno rocks Tyson before losing, February 25th 1989

It's probably my first sporting memory. I was six years old and being the youngest of four boys, I watched what they watched and we've always been a boxing-mad family.

3' 40" into the video below you'll see why it's one of my favourite sporting moments. Tyson was a year away from losing to Buster Douglas and was unstoppable. But Bruno rocked him. I know it's only a 'rock' but I remember the roof coming off in the Russell house-hold.

Great memories and I ain't embarrassed in the slightest to say I was/am a huge Frank Bruno fan. I know he wasn't the greatest boxer in the world (though his jab was a joy to behold) but he suffered in and out of the ring and has a place in the Russell's hearts.

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Repped!! Didn't know this video existed, cheers. Bruno was a legend here in Ireland as well, I remember the night he beat Oliver McCall, the roof nearly lifted off the pub with the roar that went up. Good memories :up:

 

[haxman]

Dont know how to embed but this is one of the greatest golf shots I have ever seen, and I'd say most people would agree. Tiger Woods chip in at the 16th hole at Augusta in The Masters 2005 was truly one of the best moments in golf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nJfhUGM4Yc

Great shot, but I prefer this one from behind a tree from Sergio Garcia, against Tiger that time.

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Harrington's 5 wood into the 17th green at last years Open was class too, got voted shot of the year

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[spurs mental]

Cant believe I even forgot Harringtons shot last year, me being Irish and everything!!

Woods shot just sticks in my mind for some reason though.

 

[southgatespur40]

when i won my last 32 match against the 5th seed at the public schools fencing competition this year unfortunately nobody got my celebration on tape

 

[TheBlueRooster]

Apart from any football related moments mine would have to be Ali beating Foreman to regain the World Heavyweight title. People were genuinely scared for Ali's life. A lot was said that Ali let Foreman punch himself out but Ali threw some of the greatest punches of his life.

 

[Rocksuperstar]

Tickers & RY have hit two classics there, with the Montreal moment and the Harmison/Kasprovicz clip, but these came to mind as i was browsing down:

First up, perhaps the only wrestling match that i watched live that had me out of my chair, on three occasions, with my hands on my head too shocked to even speak. I urge anyone who appreciates the durability of the human body to watch all three parts to this (and bear in mind, 'taker and Foley had talked about a few ideas, but they hadn't discussed any of it with the bookers at all, so only they knew what they had in mind).

Undertaker -v- Mankind: King of the Ring 1998 "Hell in a Cell"
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see, at this point, Foley really does have a dislocated shoulder, adding to the injuries he was carrying into the match that night, but don't forget, Foley-is-God and he will do anything to get the crowd to pop.

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5.32 into that clip, Foley grins at the camera - that white chunk sticking out of his nostril was his tooth. It had broken off and sliced up through the inside of his top lip and came out of his nose. He really is God, i told you that, right? ray:

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Actually, another Foley match that comes to mind was the IWA King of the Deathmatch tournament from 1995, but that's an absolute gore-fest, so i'll save you the mess.

 

[AngerManagement]

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I remember this fight being on my birthday when I was a young school kid, My father and I were big Nigel Benn fans and this fight was so dramatic