Dement Brother’s Old School Boxing Club Nearing 5 Year Anniversary
In 1972, then 17-year-old "little Timmy Dement of Boss-ee-yay City, Louisiana" as Howard Cosell called him, represented the USA at the Olympics in Munich.
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Tim Dement, Bossier City: Munich Games ’72
The Shreveport / Bossier area has certainly been well represented in Olympic competiton through the years (Hollis Conway, Kendrick Farris and Ryan Harrison to name three). But all the way back in 1972 at the Olympic Games in Munich, the ArkLaTex banner was carried by a 17-year-old boxer named Tim Dement.