I think the weakening-chin thing is a pretty common product of the kind of face-first, wide-open style Layne exemplified. As you note, Cobb's...
Can you produce any newspaper records to back up your remarkable claim regarding this purported unrecorded bout?
As I discussed in the above post, since I am mostly looking at the scene from the time Liston came into the title picture (starting with the...
From what I've read, I've generally gotten the impression Brion was more of an awkward spoiler than an elegant boxer. I have a little bit of...
I recall reading at least one newspaper account which said Layne had punished Neuhaus to the body all night and deserved the decision in the eyes...
Yes, I would consider this more along the lines of businessman-like thinking than lack of confidence. Fairly comparable to the way a Ray Leonard...
This is a good point. You're right. In fact, Johnson pretty well cleaned up on all of the fighters from my list who he fought, most of them in the...
To my knowledge, during the time period between Marciano's "coming-out party" in the elite heavyweight title picture against Layne and his...
False, but I do think the fact that those things both happened to him in his prime is a strong indication that he does not belong in the top five...
What you said was that a win over Johansson wouldn't greatly improve Liston's legacy, because fighters including Folley and Williams (who he...
I give Marciano less flack than most and probably more than most where Liston is concerned, but yes, I do think Liston can be sanely ranked ahead...
I might fork over 5-10 dollars, like for any other movie. If we were talking really realistic CGI style stuff that made it look so that one could...
Do you think that boxers just don't age? Do you think that James Toney and Larry Donald were just far too much for Holyfield at any stage of his...
And easily outpointed Mercer, who took Lewis to a debatable MD.
Uh, as was stated in the post you just quoted here, Foreman and Holmes were "old, fat grandfathers" when they had their late-'80s-through-'90s...
