Ali's wonderful performance against Cleveland Williams in '66 gets a lot of attention. "He wasn't even touched!" They say, "It's his peak...
A streetfight, I'll assume. I can say this -it isn't the inside, regardless of what you might have heard. Street fighters are pretty easy to...
LaMotta wasn't eager for a rematch, but he did try to fight him a couple of years later. I see those unfortunate cancellations as bad luck more...
Lytell and his managers at the Aaronson office were asking for a fight against Ezzard when Ezzard was bombing the light heavyweight division, and...
Robinson could have easily been the lightweight, welterweight, middleweight, and light heavyweight champion of the world had circumstances been...
Part 6: "The World's Most Feared Middleweight" The Beast is forced to migrate to Mongoose territory. Can Bert Lytell deal with Archie Moore? See...
I'm bouncing right behind those big shoulders, JT, like a little brother. "Yeah! You tell 'im!"
The Case for Liston, Regurgitated... If the measure was what it usually is, then Ali is tops, then Louis. But the measure here is different, the...
More amusing still is that you have Mike Tyson -the World's Champion Headcase up there on your list. Speaking for myself, I don't factor in all...
Lloyd Marshall was scheduled to fight Bert Lytell in January, 1948 -10 rounds at MSG on the undercard of Maxim-Tandberg. It didn't happen, but...
As did Tyson.
Louis? I love him, but I'm not at all convinced he takes Marciano, Tunney, Liston, or Ali. He didn't like crowding fighters -which makes me...
In H2Hs, I'm looking at the best version. It doesn't make any sense to look at it in any other way. By the time Liston took the title, he was past...
Ali is the only one of the champions I'd favor.
Beautiful. (You getting this Seamus?) Yes, I have that Heinz story somewhere.
