Charles was an excellent Heavyweight and a lb4lb great - many heavyweights started out as middleweights - Jimmy Ellis lost 5 times as a...
Jimmy Young was a sparring partner for some of the best fighters at the time of his breakthrough in boxing and was always thrown in with the...
It's easy to say Ali would win a decision but for me this fight would have dangerous moments for Ali. Dempsey could hit very hard and the left...
Tunney UD
I agree - you broke it down very well - credit to Dempsey for fighting and credit to Tunney for beating Dempsey who KO'd Sharkey and other than...
many guys went 15 with Holmes - Weaver is underrated- when he fought Holmes he was a nobody with a 18-9 record but he rocked Holmes and gave...
I never thought much of Berbick, he had good timing and Lyle would have been a tougher opponent than Berbick in my opinion - I see both men losing...
He didn't take chances and was conservative when he could have possibly KO'd a few guys but I am beginning to respect Floyds conservatism more...
I met lyle in his locker room before his fight with Quarry in the garden - strong guy - He came out confident against Quarry but got rocked before...
what other contenders did he fight that were fair punchers? - Frazier really didn't land anything of merit and Chuvalo as well and both were not...
Foreman was a great product and great guy but if you look at his record he probably was the most padded of all to stay undefeated- he was 37-0...
I have Louis 1, Ali 2 and Marciano 3- I would also rate Lennox over Holmes and Vlad higher but that's just me. I was always a fan of John L....
Norton never beat a puncher, Frazier was not the same as FTOC Frazier but I am not talking about Foremans power which was ELITE, his best...
Lyle was a strong guy a solid puncher but not an elite puncher and he was not particularly fast - in fact I had ringside tickets in NYC and...
Marciano had a hell of a double hook and power jab with a monster right hand - he always had the other hand loaded up and usually punched in...
