This quote is from 1903? If so, of course Jeffries would be a threat to any heavyweight who ever lived pre-1903....ater all, there were only...
A recent conversation about late 1960s/early 1970s distance running, and in particular Steve Prefontaine and Lasse Viren, provoked some...
Byrd may have been successful, but I don't think he was all that good. He was a good contender "for the era" but his era was especially weak....
I think this is the point that many are trying to make. Yesterday's good small men have become today's good big men. I don't think any...
He's younger than B-Hop.
I don't see how I was being silly when I stated that Duran gave someone a rematch. Fighters that lose don't give rematches, they demand them (and...
"Big men" in the HW division are more often than not statistical anomalies. I'd like to see a survery of a large (>1000) sample of heavyweight...
Marciano would pummel him, I think, unless he moves.
I think McCall would brutally KO him like Foreman did, except spread out over 7-8 rounds of mayhem. Norton's problem was not explicitly big...
The poster that mentioned smaller heavyweights that fight small as being able to compete hit it right on the head. Guys like Tunney and Ali...
Tunney UD. He'd run and gun until Cooney started tiring and then start doing his work.
RJJ is "more" lightheavy than Hopkins is IMO. Hopkins was a middle who stepped up, and, while he performed well, he's still old + past his prime...
He needs to face as many young, hungry, dangerous contenders as he can, because there's no real ATG fights in the immediate future (unless...
