I was just thinking of some of the great fighters that learned the sport whilst incarcerated: Sonny Liston, Bernard Hopkins, Dwight Muhammad Qawi,...
Billy Collins to Luis Resto - no explanation needed. Larry Holmes losing (unfairly IMO) to Spinks when he as 48-0 and about to equal Marciano's...
Darren Sutherland - obviously not in the historical sense but the guy had everything going for him.
29 posts and no mention of henry cooper? better than Cockell & Bugner surely. Do Irish - Americans count?
True but my point was more that Froch shouldn't be listed, he's only fought Kessler and lost. the winner of juanma -v- marquez would deserve a...
froch gets a mention but no ward????
You wouldn't have thought it to look at him in the stadium after the last fight, was standing next to him as he horsed down 2 hotdogs in one go...
picture #2: I could have sworn it was my turn on the fruit machine
Would be interesting to see how he'd get on minus the handwraps. Tim Bradley maybe?
The phantom whistler :rofl Fair play to Gilroy, I was on the Hill today and he was still getting dog's abuse of plenty of gobshites in the...
Unforgiveable blackness - the rise and fall of Jack Johnson (any book on him would be brilliant because he was such a fighter and a character but...
****ing brilliant - it's on youtube in about 10 parts. Any other good ones on youtube?
uk fighters...
Reminds me of that great quote from Tex Cobb "If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass."
For the first two rounds, but Quarry was coming into the fight before the cut, and could have seriously tested Ali had the fight gone down the...
