Note your word "titlist." That is telling. Note your word "top dog"; ie: premiere fighter. That too is telling. Jones was a four-division...
Great post. Wlad and his brother are both real credits to the sport.
Tyson follows Ali. Tyson and Spinks were ranked 1 and 2 at the time of their fight.
You cannot redo what was never done in the first place. The WBS racketeers came into the sport and made an absolute mess of it, far worse than...
Holmes was #1 and I'm pretty sure that John Tate was #2.
....while lufcrazy goes with his best guess.
Shavers was not #1 at the time. Holmes never fought the #1 because he, like Jones, was overly concerned with easy money and baby games and not...
Right --and that fact is a perfect illustration of how ridiculous the sport has gotten and how dire the need is for reform.
Robinson became champion in 1946. Between 1920 and the mid-60s, the sport was relatively uniform. It did not descend into madness until the 60s...
The WBC stripped rightful champ Leon Spinks after he had the gall to grant Ali a rematch. They gave it to Holmes after he defeated Norton in June...
Wlad beat a third-rate and third-rated Chagaev and The Ring appointed him champion based on that. He's one of the seventy make-pretend champions...
Who makes sense when they lose their cool?? I'm cool now. Cooooooool.
Instead of sitting around watching the absurdity continue for another 50 years, why not consider another approach that would end the reign of...
What a mess. We have contenders -and that's what everyone except for Martinez is- going belt-shopping while dizzy dopes call him "a champion."...
...Any boxing fan who seeks out the racketeer organizations to "get information" needs his head examined. If you give a damn about the sport...
