Which shows how messed up boxers purses were in this era
Link me, I still think you've misinterpretted it, but ES did grow up when Liston was champ so he may have rose tinted glasses
Max wasn't champ though, Braddock was. Bradock's contract saw him take a huge chunk of the revenue for Joe Louis's subsequent bouts after he...
I highly doubt that
I'm not sure we saw enough of Ibeabuchi or Cooney in his prime to make a call on this one.
Foreman has a puncher's chance but lost to Young and Past Prime Ali so probably gets outboxed clearly. But Foreman's uppercut on the inside is a...
Clinching is part of boxing, especially with a tall man against a shorter man. Lennox used the exact same tactics against Tyson, go and watch it...
The point of an effective clinch is to lock the arms off so you can't punch. Note Holyfield didn't too well against Ruiz jab and grab
Right but Tyson would have to land and consistently. Tyson can't get off inside if Wlad is holding both his arms. I just see Tyson getting tired...
Why, Buster Douglas managed it. Tyson said Lennox was too big for him.
I wouldn't put any money on this fight because it could go either way
Wlad's jab is probably the best ever in the division. Vitali's jab is very functional. Both of them constantly land first because they were 6'7...
Calazaghe's style was based on Ray Leonard his favourite fighter and his southpaw style maybe came from Hagler. Greb had no such rolemodels....
Hearns jab is great, the thing about Holmes jab though is he still dominated with it against men that were as rangy or even rangier. He'd use it...
In modern days you have protein shakes, creatine, mass shakes not to mention steroids and other things. None of these were around in the 50s...
