I think what is being asked is "could anyone go toe-to-toe or try to outslug Hagler?" MOnroe didn't do that, he boxed. Beat the **** out of him,...
You never saw Whitaker-Chavez?
Steward is the definition of bias.
I never liked Dunphy. He always sounded bewildered in his broadcasts, and coming from a radio background, never seemed to understand the...
He came into real prominence with his blowout of olympic hero Willie Dewit. His power was real, but he was a headcase. You never knew what...
The "Favorite Performance Of Joe Louis" thread made me think of this. I was going to start a series of posts, one every so often, each focusing...
Heroin overdose, apparently. Mystery shrouds his death, since he was supposed to be very fearful of needles, and track marks were supposed to...
Good post.
Can't comment on that one. Never saw it. Wasn't Jirov a cruiser originally, though, and a bit worn after the Toney fight?
The Foreman Moorer fought wasn't the Foreman Holy fought. Foreman against Holy was still very slow, but the version Moorer fought would have been...
I think when you get up to THAT level, you're talking decimal points of difference, and it sort of begs the question of the validity of the...
Any one of those is a good choice, but I think something you hit on made me disqualify Tyson. His speed was actually as responsible as raw power...
Thanks for digging that up. I too have seen him work the heavybag, which was an awesome sight, and also the medicine ball workout, and the...
NO way does Tyson KO Ali. If there's one thing any version of Tyson couldn't do, it was ahndle a guy who knew how to clinch. Who was the...
DLH fairly easily.