Whoah, I don't know who'd win myself but people seem to vastly under-rate Breland here or over-rate Mosley. Breland could crack, and Mosley...
Hmm, I didn't consider this at all but makes you think. But would Hagler's all-time middleweight position or his all-time pound-per-pound position...
Ali, Holmes, and Liston. Lennox, too, with the caveat that the most likely scenario is that Lennox gets knocked out. But the question was who...
We are not exactly disagreeing here. I think I favored Hearns, albeit with lots of reservations, against Jones. But Hearns would be susceptible of...
I had the same score as Lederman. I also frankly think both Mosley and DLH would have beaten Floyd if they fought in the latters' primes. I recall...
Exactamundo. Edit: Also another one I thought about but didn't want to feed the trolls ;)
No, the Esparza fight was at bantamweight. I talked to a Japanese boxing historian about this a few decades ago.
I was going to say the same for Ali, but I desisted since 1) I assumed someone else would do so eventually, and 2) I didn't want to feed the...
Exactly. This is why you have to always parse what one athlete says of his contemporary.
Let's face it: Human beings have a tendency to judge things purely on the basis of outcomes or results rather than the context. Perhaps this is...
Harada beat two borderline all-time greats at flyweight and was basically unbeaten and unbeatable at the weight (the second Kingpetch fight was a...
My score was similar to George's, but you make a lot of trenchant observations about these two fighters and this fight. Kudos!
Hong had a lot of stuff going on his private life - and even professional life - at this time. There was also a head butt which he claimed made...
It's not like Hearns was slow; and height and reach often have a tendency to neutralize speed - especially when that speed gap is not so large.
The problem is that Hearns was often either stopped outright or had the fight completely turn against him by one punch - even in fights where he...
