There's a wonderful line in AJ Liebling's The Sweet Science where he is commentating on the Harold Johnson v Archie Moore fight. Harold is well...
The first example where the heavier fighter didn't have tits! Nice work, Macc!!
He'd looked pretty good at the weight less than four months previously against Prince Charles Williams.
Take any two you like from the 18 punch combination Holyfield threw at Foreman in the 7th (I think). That sequence proved both men had been...
Given the utter c0ck he spouts, as I highlighted above, that's eminently possible and would explain a lot.
Dear me. Most heavyweights are finished at 25, he says. And then lionises the man whose most notable wins largely consisted of men in their mid to...
Era had some great names but so many were past peak by the time the decade got going - Louis and, probably, Charles. Walcott and Moore were mid...
Ali v Terrell, Chavez v Haugen, Qawi vs Spinks (Leon), Tyson v Biggs all came to mind.
Nice response and great avatar. His appearance over Xmas nearly got lost amid the love for Gavin and Stacey but it was truly brilliant. Wallace...
Sibson or Scypion was Hagler at his best. Hearns was him at his greatest.
Eaten it with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
Bowe v Holy 2 is another good example. Bowe fought his heart out, through the anguish of watching his pregnant wife being carried from the arena...
Beat me to it with Perez. How about Genaro Hernandez?
More likely Colombian, knowing Sonny.
Liston v Patterson 1 and 2