"Waiting for you to respond to Klompton's piece" It will come, probably tomorrow or Saturday. "The word is LaMotta grew so dejected over being...
LaMotta was 26 years old when he lost to Dauthuille. If you are over the hill in your mid-twenties, you might not have been all that good to...
"Maxim was shot to pieces." Excessive conclusion. I think he was slipping, obviously, but he was coming off wins over Floyd Patterson and Paul...
Beating Morrow and Hall in a return? All right. But he also first lost to them. Moore as an old man is tough to judge. As late as 1962 he KO'd...
"Matthews was better than Yvon Durelle" "How do you know?" He certainly had the better record. Seriously, no one has any proof, or even...
"I believe Archie was at his peak in 1948 when Charles knocked him out." Kind of a tough sell though when you look at his record, Charles aside....
I think so also. My take would be that the 1930's middles were on the whole a much better bunch with a lot more depth of good fighters than the...
I just have a question which I want to raise, but I don't personally have a settled position on this, so don't get your fur up. Is Charles riding...
I think Apostoli was better, which is just guesswork, but I think one has to consider Apostoli doing better h2h even if they split two fights....
"He suffered a detached retina in the gym in 1953" The year he took off started in 1952. "I've been told he went legally blind in one eye" So....
Legally blind is a legal and medical term and has a definition in the United States--"a person has less than 20/200 vision in the best eye after...
"Jackson beat Henry when Henry was legally blind" This is another statement which seems far-fetched. Check what the term "legally blind"...
No. I remember reading a Zivic article in which he mentioned rules for how to get away with fouling. The first was always know where the ref was...
"LaMotta policed fighters like Lloyd Marshall, Bert Lytell, Holman Williams, Jose Basora, and prime SSR." Your definition of policeman is...
No one has provided anything yet. I admit I would be skeptical even if Graziano could be accurately quoted as saying something like this,...
