"It's incorrect that Miteff was the #5 contender. He was #6." NBA Ratings released May 31, 1958 (Miteff and Chuvalo fought on June 16) Next...
"Chuvalo should have lost decisively to Miteff in their first fight." Spectacular double standard rears its head. Chuvalo was born on September...
Chuvalo vs DeJohn---"Hardly a dominant win." In my judgment, this was not a competitive fight and the draw verdict is the worst scoring I have...
Unless we get info no one knows if or how much gym work Williams was doing. I have no comment except posting the answers to questions I asked the...
"How many managers take fights for their charges knowing them not to be in to shape?" With a top heavyweight prospect? Sure, trial horses are...
There is a lot here, so there will be more than one reply post "With all due respect . . . Daniels was never the same after the brutal beating he...
What his manager said is 1--Williams had done plenty of roadwork (which I consider part of training) 2--Williams had not been sparring before...
"ali against Cooper" "Johnson against Choynski" These analogies would only mean something if Williams had the sort of post-Satterfield career...
Thanks for posting another article. I appreciate this as I am learning a lot about Williams early career. "Despite putting a brave face on his...
"6 to 7 years" professional experience when he fought Satterfield, which is totally unsupported by any evidence or probability." You just posted...
"A padded record can clearly hinder and falsely reflect a fighter's accrued experience and, by association, his due development against...
You accept the info you want to accept, but my take is what happened with Williams between 1948 and 1951 is lost in a murky past. Williams is...
"I'm going to go ahead and say that the 14 is a typo" Your privilege. But it is equally possible the "six" is the typo, and should have been...
Thanks for this very revealing article. What it says is most interesting. "Williams fought his first professional fight as a 14 year old in...
Okay. But it also follows that Williams" amateur record might be missing. He had a few preliminary pro fights in 1949. Did he just then take...
