I've seen someone say he improved. Might have been Louis. Are there other such testimonies?
A tangent, but I was thinking today about the Foreman stamina thing. During his first career I'd say the Young fight is where he demonstrated poor...
He probably could, yeah. But don't know if he would, since the money is better at LHW, I think. A CW Marciano against Usyk or Opetaia would be...
Nah. Comparing to 86-87 is holding a quite impossible standard. I counted 18 fights over those two years. And 15 in 1985. That's a hell of a pace...
The opposition 88-89 I see no questions about. We have to remember that Holmes and Tubbs were in the 6 months before the showdown with the lineal...
It's an interesting "what if" if contenders like Page, Dokes, Tubbs, Thomas, Witherspoon etc had had the professionalism of contenders of previous...
Excellent post.
Some sort of terminal post Rooney decline I'm not convinced of at all, though. Apart from Douglas his post Rooney/pre prison run goes KO5, KO1,...
Maybe I missed it, but I haven't seen anyone say that this was Tyson on his best night. Overconfident and not very motivated quite likely, and...
Were there even any dominant Soviet amateurs back then? If they, who were essentially pros in an amateur format as @mcvey pointed out, couldn't...
There's a reason Thomas had his last good win in '85 and his best performance in '84. For reference, Tyson was coming off a 1 round KO over a...
The first win over Peralta was wide for two of the judges and ringside observers, and the second, when Foreman had been pro for just almost two...
Two cards really disagreed with each other there. Only watched it once, but had it fairly close from memory. When it's described here you almost...
Hard to say. On the one hand, I think it's far to say that Foreman was damaged goods mentally after Ali. Besides having a near death experience in...
I agree that could be seen as a kind of explanation. The question is why they're needed. Louis most likely wasn't always optimally focussed and...
