Any champion will at some point struggle, with a man who is nothing more than a contender. They are only human at the end of the day.
Some historians have questioned this.
Difficult to say. I can't identify any point in time, where Schmeling would have been under any particular pressure to fight Carnera, or vice...
I would take a wild guess that Paul Anderson was stronger. The strongest fighter of any given description, is rarely an elite fighter.
I would expect Lewis to beat Tyson any time after he came out of prison. He never recovered from his time in prison, and it was only the...
Let's just say that if it had been attempted, he would have been the most likely candidate to walk away with all the belts, and leave it at that.
Yes its a shame that there is no footage of Greb Walker.
There were people at the time who expected him to be champion for a long time, so not hard to imagine him having his advocates on this forum.
Let's not go wild.
Last night we got a practical demonstration of why context is important in a fight. Imagine a boxing fan of the future looking back on Parker...
I am sure that he would have done well in any era.
Both of these men have been subject to some recent revisionism, which was to their disadvantage. In both cases the criticism was partially...
Lee Oma I think.
I sometimes think that the 80s alphabet boys were one of the greatest piles of talent ever assembled in the division, but that it didn't work out...
Most of them to be honest.
