I do believe you're right! BoxRec has him at 113 fights, without a single inside-the-distance defeat... so he belongs on the list
Thanks - much appreciated.
HOFers with at least 100 pro fights, who were never stopped inside the distance: Gorilla Jones 174 Panama Al Brown 163 Joe Lynch 159 Kid Gavilan...
Take something like feints (just to pick one thing)... is there any objective way to determine/prove, that the old-timers were better at this than...
How about if we transported prime Golovkin (for example) back to the 50s... how would he do? Is there any time during that decade, where he would...
So you like the old-timers? So do I... but that's not enough to prove, that they were superior to modern boxers in almost every aspect of the game.
So waist movement used to be better in the old days? I'd like to see what statistics you have, that backs up this claim?
Frankie Wallace lost to 12 different HOFers - which I think will be hard to "beat": Bob Montgomery x 3 Sugar Ray Robinson Tony Canzoneri Lou...
I was gonna mention Calzaghe, but see you beat me to it. Joe could throw punces almost non stop for 12 rounds - and at the end looked like he...
I can't find a win over Campi for our guy - nor do I think he met Abe Attell in his 40th fight!
Lew Tendler single-handedly fought almost a dozen "geographic" opponents: Tommy Jordan Joe Reno KO Mars Oakland Jimmy Duffy Rocky Kansas Harlem...
Of course thistle knows this very well. He just couldn't resist the opportunity to belittle today's heavyweights in general - and Fury in particular!
It seems that several non-ATGs are being mentioned here... so if we want to lower the bar, and include those who fall just short of ATG status,...
Miguel Canto Manuel Ortiz Ted Kid Lewis
Is there any evidence that suggests, that Vitali would have had a big problem handling the 15 rounds distance? I don't think så! Also, the idea...