This is the best answer. We're seeing a selection of picks where fighters are simply moving beyond their optimum weight. Toney had numerous...
It's a better comparison than the Ali one that the interviewer suggested
What year? 1990?
No. I mean you say Tito was regularly going down then getting up but then you call him a front running quitter. I 'm talking about the fights...
You do know that your first paragraph - up and down etc - totally contradicts your second para, don't you?
Also Eubank hated body shots. Tommy's left hook to the body was one of the best. As long as he doesn't stand there and admire it for too long.
Born in Cuthbert, Georgia, Levook. You were fine.
He did that. Reggie was a good puncher. Great timing and snap. He nearly took William Guthrie's head off at light heavy when he moved up. How...
Benitez v Cervantes. Cervantes an ATG, probably top ten at the weight which, while relatively new, has always been very deep. Benitez was 17,...
To be good enough to toy with the Olympic superheayweight gold medallist at the age of 21. It's mind-boggling. Turn Tyson's career round and...
Tyson-Berbick - 20 yrs old, 20 months a pro, pressure of a world title fight and blew away a tough veteran. Holyfield-Qawi 1, 12th pro fight and...
The run from Biggs through to Spinks. Eight months, four fights, 14 rounds (of which ten were completed) with his opponents being both top drawer...
Stanley Ketchel, Jim Corbett (not to mention the G-string), Max Baer.
So with a different trainer, more and improved skills and in better shape, he'd have been fine? Do I need to go on or are you with me?
It may not have had the storyline of Nazis vs America or the following of white America willing their man to beat the arrogant champion but it had...