With that in mind, which heavyweights impress you the most in that regard.
Thanks for the response. Fair points for each category. Patterson and Ellis seem comparable to Louis's smaller opponents. The bigger opponents...
How much weight do you put into the variety of opponents beaten in a title run? I started thinking about this in regards to the debate over who...
Mike Gibbons hair looked really light in photos.
I feel like he's our modern day Gene Tunney. A pound for pound fighter, but a bit hard to rate as a heavyweight. Although, if he continued on for...
For retiring with a nice looking record intact: Ricardo Finito Lopez Mayweather Jr.
http://www.espn.com/sportscentury/features/00014146.html#:~:text=Jack%20Dempsey%20was%20known%20to,187%20pounds%20of%20unbridled%20violence. The...
I also wonder how Tunney would have faired against some of the bigger heavyweights that came after him. Tunney vs Max Baer would have been...
Langford. I wanna say Fitz, but his era and best wins were mostly filled with smaller guys (although most still outweighed him).
For something very specific to boxing; an iron chin. Joe Grim is a 'freak' worth mentioning.
It didn't used to be, but it gradually became Jack Dempsey. His style of boxing, the excitement of his fights, and also his book, Championship...
In Joe Louis's autobiography he says that he never gave a cut of his winnings to Braddock. Says that the cut came from his managers share (if I'm...
