Roy Jones Jr. was the best fighter for a few years. He overshadowed many other real good fighters of the day. Boxers eventually figured Jones out...
Or maybe he should include that MMA fighter who he embarrassingly got his derrière kicked from.
I was thinking the same thing.
We know one thing Barkley would not knock out LaMotta.
Slapsy Maxie is a good one that describes the great Maxie Rosenbloom's lack of power.
The Lou Bizzaro fight where Duran chases him around until he knocks him out is beautiful. The Buchanan fight were he beats up a great champion...
Gunboat Smith, Allentown Joe Gans, Kid Norfolk, Battling Nelson are a few.
If you include LHVY Weights who became Heavyweight Champions then the two best should be Charles and Tunney. I would not count them however.
John L. Sullivan is an iconic figure. He is regarded as the first heavyweight champion. He started in bare knuckle and moved to gloves. Jack...
Billy Conn and Bob Foster?
I would rate Foreman's chin very good. Ali wore him down and any chin is more susceptible when extremely tired.
A better question might be the Marvelous One vs. the Jinx Spinks.
The point is that if Duran isn't afraid of Pryor then he certainly wasn't ducking Cervantes.
Just some information from Aaron Pryor's wiki page: Pryor was offered $750,000 to fight Roberto Duran but turned it down because his new...
I think the Marvelous one took both Duran and Leonard too lightly. When he discovered he could not knock out Duran he got frustrated. And that...
