You’re in for a treat with Toney-McCallum 1.
I don’t think punch resistance is always a constant. Someone like Jeff Fenech seemed to have a pretty good beard and then after taking a pasting...
I think the question could be ‘who is the best light-heavy in history that SRR could beat?’, given that he fought once at the weight and lost. I...
Lol.
Yeah, I was joking, really - I mean, I was surprised to see Hopkins instead of Sugar Ray but the long-reigning part makes sense.
I’m a bit upset that when I saw the title ‘three great middleweights’ and then read the opening post, Hopkins was one of the three and Sugar Ray...
****, sorry @Saintpat! I posted that early this morning and was clearly still half asleep. But I didn’t make a mistake about the knowledge.
Fantastic knowledge, Scar! I didn’t realise Simon Brown was fighting out of Washington DC.
I’ve changed the title to include intercity rivalries in the same state.
Yeah, maybe I limited it too much!
I’ll start off: Johnny Tapia v Danny Romero: Alberquerque, New Mexico.
What great rivalries between natives of the same city or state can you think of? And what are your favourites? I’ve excluded NYC, Philly and LA...
Napoles. Assuming he doesn’t get cut, I think he’s so good offensively as well as defensively whilst Benitez is a defensive genius and super fast,...
‘No Azumah, you cannot borrow my circular saw. Spend some of your ring earnings on your own one, you tight ****.’
Brilliant post.
