some good ones there, thread stealer. i think napoles' ranking would sky rocket if he had a win over monzon (assuming the rest of monzon's epic...
patterson was certainly more versatile. if we're strictly talking about who was better suited to the peekaboo style, it has to be tyson....
do you really think that foreman would have been considered the greatest fighter to have ever lived, had he beaten ali? as great as ali was, he...
i'm not sure that louis has the names on his resume to be up there with the likes of robinson. all of your points are true, though. louis was...
boilermaker, are you talking about the greatest heavyweights or the greatest pound for pound?
hearns was one of a kind.
especially when you consider the state he was in, if ali had got the win against holmes he'd have to be in the goat debate. indeed.
a few could have got a win over marciano - moore, charles and louis. i'm not sure an official verdict would have done much for him. if you feel...
hearns has lost some of your affection in the last year?
do you ever look at a fighter's resume and think 'if only he had somehow got that win, he would have been the greatest'? they don't even have to...
fair enough. i guess we just see things differently. i don't think foreman would be looking like much of a mover against tyson, but who knows.
tyson holmes monzon hagler duran chavez i feel that these match-ups would get the best out of the fighters, everyone would flourish.
in order of when they debuted as a pro... canzoneri walcott louis moore charles pep robinson monzon duran whitaker
i agree with your analysis if we're talking about old foreman, reznick. he could throw well-timed, efficient punches. he could link them together...
yeah he had. i assume this myth is born out of d'amato's insistence that foreman would have been tyson's kryptonite, in a hypothetical scenario....
