According to the Sunday Mirror, which was sponsoring Bugner's tour of the US: Geared up and ready, he was nodded into the ring. As he walked...
But you can't articulate what the argument is, and that's because it requires such a level of doublethink. You want to deny Valdes credit for his...
Fair enough. It's unusual to see a Marciano fan arguing that Ezzard Charles was a pushover, but I respect your consistency on the point.
It may not be what you meant but it's what you said. You're dismissing Charles's loss to Valdes on the grounds that he had lots of other losses....
Losses don't count as long as you have lots of other losses. I'll remember that.
Well, he managed to beat Ezzard Charles and Don Cockell, who between them represent half of Marciano's title defences, so either Valdes wasn't...
This is the original UPI report from 1962. Basically the same as the FB article, just a slightly longer version. https://ibb.co/W4x3gskS
Leonard was a 3-1 underdog but Spinks was 6-1. He was widely seen as a cherry-pick on Holmes's road to 50-0 and retirement. A lot of people felt...
One thing to remember is this decision was made in May 1967. Despite his high rating and obvious ability, Frazier was still pretty green and his...
The official "tale of the tape" releases usually gave Patterson's height as 6 feet, but sometimes as only 5'11", which I'm guessing is closer to...
Like a lot of people, Charles suddenly remembered after Liston's loss to Ali that he'd never been that impressed with him. As long as Liston was...
He certainly wasn't considered finished at the time. The betting for the Tunney fight was pretty much even money and there was no shortage of...
Just on the question of how many of Greb's fights were filmed in the first place, Jimmy Jacobs famously spent years unsuccessfully searching for...
There would have been nothing wrong with this if it had just been a regular exhibition - a public sparring session with five salaried employees...
This fight came within a whisker of happening in 1960. Cancelled at the last moment when Johnson was ruled out with a cut hand.
