Yank Durham ducked a 38 y/o Sonny in '68 and Jack Quarry did so with the 40 y/o in '70. Joe and Jerry were 24 and 25, respectively, at the...
See where an unranked and seriously declined 36 y/o Cleve Williams fought a fast rising ten years younger heavy hitting #5 ranked Mac Foster in...
(Los Angeles Times) "Antonio Inoki, a comic opera in which Inoki spent the night falling to the floor and kicking the back of Ali’s legs till they...
Very long term friend of mine is wrapping his career as a movement disorder neuro doc and early on trained at Johns Hopkins with Mahlon DeLong,...
The WBC should have stripped Ali for signing Spinks instead of Norton, but instead waited to pronto strip Leon for the same reason. Poor Ken then...
So maybe Ali did 'sort of' take Ferdie's advice because his next defense was against a recently bulked lightheavy with a little over a year of pro...
How about you two also weigh in on Ali-Norton 2 and 3? :argue: As to the Shaver's fight in a non-debatable regard on account of those many right...
You're right on both accounts. Indeed, the Superfly shoes look not kosher for a Muslim minister. As to Norton I bummed my grandma's car in...
Glad you shared an in-the-flesh moment. I found and attach the best thread out there on the compelling subject of a deceased boxer's height and it...
Thanks and glad you could feel the Joe story. Ali also did me right when I made a pilgrimage to him and sooner than later I'll post the PDF from...
Thanks and it didn't let me edit the typo "...back to the staring point." Almost impossible to avoid a typo in a long post with no edit program
Yeah that Ali-Liston scoring thread wins the gold medal
Corrected the typo (new = news) and can't fyi find the link at the moment with Edson's interview but saw it with the youtube link on the whole...
I did call Joe Jr. at a later time to confirm my understanding of Joe Sr's height. I was getting a lot of condescending guff from Frank Lotierzo,...
Here's an off-the-grid thought: Max Schmeling (Sinatra also kicked in) paid for Joe Louis's funeral (and served as a pallbearer coming all the...
