Good answer. While Williams was a decent contender for a time, I can’t see there being a champ he might have beat in real life.
In relation to that criteria, and all of the longer careers fought among “man who beat the man” It is entirely acceptable for Marciano to come out...
Stands up better than anything Cleveland achieved. The guy messed up at 30-0 against a no name 7-3 jobber. A light heavyweight nearly killed him 5...
On one hand you have a guy who won the Olympic gold and beat Muhammad Ali for the undisputed World title after 7 fights…on the other hand a guy...
The best
How about Dokes? Did Coetzee lose to Dokes? Or Thomas?
Those fights, the championship reign after Manila, outside of Dunn, Ali was getting by on his name. As I said before he could no longer win...
I get where you are coming from with this statement. It’s true, Ali had reached a stage where he could barely convincingly win at world level…it’s...
That was no disgrace considering the prime performance by Coetzee who proved to be one of the major players of the coming decade. It’s not like...
you need to look at the thread and understand the criteria. It’s all very well explained....
Clevelands record reads 15-11-1 against real fighters. Everything else was phoney. That’s 26 real fights from 94. check boilermakers lineal...
That isn’t true. Leon did beat good fighters afterwards. Eddie Lopez, Evangelista and Bernardo Mercado were all riding high when Spinks fought...
Bump. excwlent thread
Ali made him an offer? Leon had serious ability. Enough ability to get past an old champion Shavers and Norton still couldn’t beat. Nobody can...
What was it if wasn’t ability?
