You seem to look at this in entirely the wrong way. Burns drew the quality line. He was basically the first belt milker in the history of...
Tunney drifted into some strange ramblings later in life, of which this is but one.
Also, how much a fighter drawing the color bar harms their legacy, does not depend upon how wicked their motives were. It depends upon how many...
It would be hard to find a fighter from that era or earlier who took a consistent position on the color line, and it was often influenced by...
I think that he could have come in around the same weight as Usyk without losing anything. He was sometimes as much a 207lbs when he was up...
I think that his highest Ring Ranking was #3, and that he had slipped to #7 when he went to prison. Of course you can never be sure, but I...
I am quite certain that he would be top five without it. He was the best finisher in the history of the division, without any glaring...
As you all know, Rubin Carter was convicted of three murders, committed at the Lafayette Grill in 1966. A lot of ink has been spilled on this...
They were pretty good in my opinion. I too was confused that he did as well as he did.
My take on that is that results speak for themselves.
I have also speculated that modern rules might actually favor Johnson, as long as he knew what they were. Those bigger gloves are going to be...
It's also possible that he would have beaten every single campion who came after him, because we are only seeing 20% of what he could do. We...
The least great one that somehow qualifies and an all time great? You are basically looking for someone who gained that accolade, by getting...
Hearns was renowned for being a monster in sparring, and he was not shy about mixing it up with world class heavyweights.
Even if you only consider people born in Ireland, the list is simply ridiculous for a country of that size. If you visit any country in the...