One of my biggest issues with boxing biographies that I have, is the regurgitation of what the opinions of the reporters were of those days, eg....
lewis
I'd fancy Leonard to pull it out UD (15)
Me too, that's what it stated in the Dave Anderson biography
According to SRR's biography he beat Graham (whom he claimed gave him his toughest amatuer bout) on Billy's home territory. Who knows 'eh? *...
George Chuvalo post career
Mcgowan
Liverpool 1) John Conteh – Could’ve been so much greater… 2) Nel Tarleton - Top level fighter. He fought his entire career...
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good thread. I'll do Liverpool's later
Extremely possible. Ray admitted to carrying many opponents (in non-title bouts) to drum up a bit of hype if / when the title fight occurred.
blatantly ducked is harsh. There was such a small window of opportunity to call any of the those opponents being 'ducked'. He fought Lamotta...
Not quite. Clay went to see Robinson before the olympics and asked him to be his manager, Robinson thinking this kid was just a nobody, blew him...
What was the motive for the murder?
Enzo and hist team had Cobra promotions T-shirsts (Froch?), has he left Fwank? Who's Herbie fighting on friday?
