I know that Folley and Machen are 1-0-1...with Eddie not copping a win in their series, but I've always figured Machen to be the more "outside the box", ballsier, tougher of the two. I know the dangers of using this kind of deductive reasoning with fighters, but I reckon that Machen did better vs a rather prominent common opponent than Folley...namely Sonny Liston....and I've always though that if Eddie were to have gotten a shot at the pre-exile Muhammad Ali, that he would have improved on Zora as well. He would have found a way IMHO to survive and be more of a pest than the oh so buttoned down Folley was to Ali. Maybe I'm wrong, I dunno, but then again.....
No ,sounds plausible alright. Yep he'd have lost to Ali but maybe gives him more of a hard fight than Folley did .
