He is my retirement plan, so I share your sentiment.
When you are looking at guys winning amateur tournaments, the question that always get asked is "who was there?" The truth of it is, a lot of guys...
Way back when, amateur boxing was different too. Watch some old videos of Ray Robinson and it looks like a pro fight. The changes in scoring were...
Fair enough. How do you rate Peter Rademacher as a pro, he won a gold medal. Does that make him better than Mike Tyson? Joe Louis? Gene Tunney?...
It is amateur boxing. Winning a gold medal in amateur boxing should certainly influence your standing in amateur boxing. It has nothing to do with...
As amateurs. Though I am of the opinion that Lewis, with both at their best as pros, probably would have won.
That's true. But I don't think that anything a guy does has an amateur has any bearing on his ranking as a professional. That was my understanding...
There is supposed to be, and there used to be, a substantial difference between pro and amateur boxing. Now, for the most part, the best pros are...
All weight classes should be abolished because they are now meaningless. In effect, every fight is a catch weight bout, with one exception. In the...
Without offering an opinion, some things to consider. Tunney fought a much higher level of opposition, and there is more to it than size....
At super feather, Chavez won his first world title and defended it multiple times.
Control it with your jab.
Good point. In 77, 78, 79 it is very different for him.
Lomachenko would have problems with Arguello for several reasons, and the straight right hand of Arguello is not the first thing on the list....
At a club show in Oklahoma there was a 300 pound heavyweight and he had huge hands; once they were wrapped the gloves were not going on. There was...
