After discussing the subject with edward marius and thinking the matter over, I'm going to attempt a new permutation of the little...
I wrote that it could be pink because Layne was knocked down and rallied to narrowly defeat Satterfield in a war; note that one of my criteria was...
Now, I want to try a little experiment to help illustrate why I consider Ray to have been a higher-level fighter at his peak than was Layne....
This one is a little frustrating, because you either are dodging my point, or are not quite getting what I'm saying. I acknowledge that Layne's...
Hello, edward and any other readers; I've returned to defend my side in this matter once more. My2Sense is certainly a vigorous and capable...
This is a pretty good assessment, though I think you overrate Cleveland Williams when you seem to place him a tier above the likes of Machen and...
It wasn't Marciano's style to give a pro-debuter a shot at the title; all of his defenses were against legitimate high-ranking contenders.
'69 Frazier was tremendous, but surely his absolute peak was '70-71, when he demolished Ellis and Foster and won the Fight of the Century. If...
Okay, here is a crucial point you have ignored: Layne, even during the peak best couple years of his career, drew with journeymen Andy Walker and...
Sticking for the moment to the ones I listed in the previous post, Art McAlpine had recently taken Pat Comiskey to a hard-fought, close split...
Those people are engaged in ahistorical, anachronistic and simply false conjecture. In point of fact, Patterson was not even an established...
Fair enough; I should have said "around the time" Liston beat them, instead of "at the time," since it wouldn't be for a couple years yet that...
Yet it is also true that there have been some sportswriters with unfavorable opinions of virtually every fighter who has ever graced the ring...
No, I said that a "substantial percentage" of his opponents, at least early in his winning streak, were what one might call "tomato cans." He also...
Floyd Patterson, Eddie Machen, Zora Folley and Cleveland Williams- at least four men, then- were all staple top five heavyweights when Liston beat...
