Downe`s is a sports journalist for The sun newspaper and has written an article about Fury stating his win over Wlad will rate higher than a potential win over Wilder, Downe`s compared Fury v Wlad to four other great Brit wins: Fury v Klitchko Calzaghe v Lacy Honeyghan v Curry Lewis draw v Holyfield Hatton v Castillo I personally feel Randy Turpin`s win over Ray Robinson belongs on this list ahead of one of these bouts, is this a credible list?
It's not a bad list to be honest. Not sure why it's the draw with Lewis v Holyfield in there, is that because Lennox actually performed better according to most in the first fight rather than the actual win he got over him?
Berg vs Canzoneri 1 is easily top 3. No question IMO. Berg also has wins over Kid Chocolate and Mushy Callahan. That is a terrible list.
"At MSG last night before more than 18,000 fans Jack (Kid) Berg disregarded a normally heart-breaking 1st round in which he almost collapsed and came back to outslug Tony Canzoneri, former featherweight champion. Canzoneri was a heavy favourite and the judgement of the so-called wise money looked very right in the opening canto when Tony rocked the English boxer with a series of rights and lefts to the jaw. After that Berg fought a steady, persistent fight, carrying the battle to the Italian and beating him decisively. His attack was so relentless and so sure that only in the 7th round did Canzoneri show anything." -International News Service
Is it a top five list of fights he has seen? Otherwise, there's no sane argument for not having Turpin-Robinson on top of the list. Agree with Berg-Canzoneri being up there as well. If pound for pound was a thing at that time, Canz would have been at or near the top, and Berg by reports gave him a beating.
If that’s the criteria for inclusion on the list, I must have missed it when Lacy, Curry and Castillo became legends.
I think it is obvious that Wally Downes (wasn’t he a soccer player?) has no interest in watching boxers that fought in fights that were filmed in black+white.
That’s true, in fact he was actually shot. Going into the fight though Napoles was the favourite, people just didn’t realise how far he was gone.