Hey, Baer beat Abe Simon and Tony Galento. How bad could he be?
No. Holding goes against a fighter in the scoring. In fact, excessive holding can get you disqualified. If holding were part of rinbg generalship...
Liston was a little taller than Walcott. But I think Hoff is probably a bit over 6'3". That was my point.
Buddy Baer was okay. Not among the best fighters Louis faced.
Walcott looks like he always does. So does Layne. This is the level of these boxers. These type of heavies couldn't hang with the boys of the...
Some, sure.
I was wonderinbg that, too. If that's 6'3" we get a real good sense of how Walcott would have looked standing next to Norton or Ali.
If you put the Norton of the first Ali fight in with Holmes of the Cooney fight then I think Norton either loses bgibg or is stopped.
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It's possible that had Norton been younger and more energetic he would have slugged it out with Holmes earlier when Holmes was fresher with...
Yeah, I don't know if ktfo is accurate either. I guess I should have said he was ktfo of boxing.
We could do a case by case basis. I see a lot of people ranking Walcott over Norton. A comparison might look like this: Norton, 6'3", 220 lbs,...
I consider this to be a match between the two best lightweights in history. Both in their prime, I have to believe Duran outboxes Chavez. Duran...
Walcott was one of those fighters who had his brains scrambled a lot. People don't act normal when their brains are scrambled. He was confused...
It's even more dramatically in favor of the modern fighters because some who are listed as old timers were modern fighters, for example Tony...