Box rec lists Marshall at 160 1/4 and LaMotta at 158 1/2 in April of 1944. Seems basically a middle. Marshall had defended the California...
continuing with LaMotta, his record is speckled with rather bad and hard to explain fights: Laurent Dauthuille--defeated LaMotta 2/1949. The...
Just on overrated, you make a good case against LaMotta also. One thing is LaMotta is given credit for fighting bigger men when the opposite is...
Here is Basilio on Fullmer "He was big and tough, a hard guy to fight. Of all the guys I fought, I think he was the hardest guy in the world for...
Well, I moved to San Francisco in the 1960's, and was there for about 40 years. I have also lived in San Antonio and Las Vegas. I have only...
"two other bouts LaMotta had in Cleveland in 1941" In fairness, wasn't LaMotta 19 in 1941? Still, the point that LaMotta was erratic is well...
"glorified regional fighter" Fullmer fought 17 fights east of the Mississippi, and five fights in California. Those fights are a long ways from...
Greb might well have edged Robinson, but Joe Louis is a bridge too far. Most of Greb's big men were in fact light-heavies. A big heavy like Louis...
I watched not only the Davey-Graziano fight, but Davey's fights with Basilio and Gavilan on you tube, and also Graziano's first fight with Tony...
"No less authority than Ring Magazine" I will start with this one. There are at least 20 posters on this board whom I would credit an opinion...
"it is unreasonable to argue that Tunney would do this." I agree. The record Joe Louis ran up is unique. I can't think of any heavyweight who...
"Tunney's height and reach were even with Louis." Tunney was 6' and Louis about 6' 2"--a problem with these tales of the tape is when were both...
good point, but I think one of the judges gave the Godoy fight to Godoy. What is true of that fight is that Donovan's scorecard was consistent...
There is very little fat on Louis' resume. Tunney's at heavyweight mainly boils down to Dempsey. Of the top ten heavyweights either faced, I...
Superman is overrated. Always relying on the kryptonite excuse. Ali by KO in 7.
