Galento was just a crude mauler with poor skills who physically overwhelmed his mostly unimpressive and undersized opponents. Tua was much, much...
Other than the De la Hoya fight, quite possibly. I was there live, by the way, and between Zab's fast start and the pandemonium that broke out...
Yeah, I'm sad for those guys and for all the potentially talented black fighters who never even got the opportunities they did.
Yeah, I think the main problem was that discrimination in the early 20th century deprived black fighters of the opportunities and backing...
Voted for Duran. I would suggest adding Hagler, Holyfield, JCC, or Pernell Whitaker next.
The top heavyweights were already getting significantly bigger in the years before the cruiserweight division was created....
Also raises the question why talented big guys like Haye and Usyk waste so many years cutting weight to make cruiserweight instead fighting the...
This seems to be consistent with how their contemporary observers viewed them, even without the benefit of seeing the more fluid and technically...
Your question reminds me of bokaj's post in this thread:...
Oh come on.
Couldn't agree more. I really regret not really paying attention to his career in real-time (I just wasn't into the lowest weight classes back then).
Descriptions like that can be misleading. Ruiz was a highly decorated amateur who had been fighting since he was 7. He wasn't some cowhand who...
I haven't seen many of his other Tua-era fights—does he look like a much different fighter compared to his later fights? Did he grab and maul less...
My earlier reply to George sums up some of the differences I see. It might help if you could share some of the examples of people saying that...
Modern fighters feint plenty, but the kind of highly-exaggerated feints you saw a lot more of in the past are far less effective against guys who...
