All this talk about Tunney's "low hands" is interesting. Tunney was known to be pretty hard to hit, I don't think the way he placed his hands cost...
As for Chagaev, to gift him some credit he's perhaps on a par with guys like Godoy and Farr and Nova, which isn't a bad thing at all. And I'm...
Max Baer injured his hands quite badly in 1935, in an exhibition a few months before the Braddock fight. I forget who he was going against, it...
I'm sure they could both stink out each other's eras just as much as they did in their own.
Lennox Lewis needed to be more or less at his absolute best to knock Rahman out with a big right hand, and it was the kind of long range shot that...
I think one newspaper writer commented, "the only time Moran laid a glove on Johnson was when they shook hands before the fight" .... which is...
Rodrigues was being touted as a real contender before Holyfield knocked him out. I guess there were hopes at one point that him v Tyson in a huge...
I don't believe in pound-for-pound lists. It's nice to say some guy "is one of the greatest ever, in any class", but they all belong in a weight...
After 1991, he only fighter Tyson beat who I'd put in Rahman's class was Frank Bruno, and that was way back in March 1996. Bruno was psyched out...
Yeah, I expect even the greatest fighters probably get that feeling some time or another. But with guys like Ali, Marciano and Hagler the thought...
Exactly. Etienne was a guy that they knew would hit the canvas too often, or not get up at all. He was a fringe contender, not one of the...
Interesting stuff, but not something I'm going to put on my "Must experience before I die" list (and the chances of dying could be real here...
Ah, yes, but he did beat Clifford Etienne ! :lol: (you know, the guy who spend half his fight with Fres Oquendo on the canvas)
Yes, and all of that is most true at heavyweight. Find the guy who hits the hardest and takes the hardest hit ... at heavyweight level ... he's...
But if Roy Jones Jr , (to use the obvious example), had stayed at 160, what would have become of Hopkins ?
