I'd say when you trumpet Johansson's wins over Henry Cooper (green, unranked and on a losing streak) and Hein Ten Hoff (35 years old, unranked,...
The WBA busted Frazier from #2 to #7 for no reason except a fit of pique when he refused to take part in their tournament. It made it hard to...
There was a strange twist to the first Louis-Walcott fight, which was that one judge had Louis winning on rounds but Walcott winning on points....
Just to pitch in on the press verdicts in Sharkey-Walker: Wilbur Wood scored it for Walker, 10-4-1, and his poll of other writers produced 16...
And if I'd made some claim about Wills being a great fighter then that might actually be relevant. Once again you seem to have forgotten that...
I see you've resorted to claiming that every report describing the bout as a one-sided win for Wills was a pack of lies. Amazing how many lying...
"Good enough to make it a terrible fight"? I doubt that's a phrase I'll ever see again. I've shown you two contemporary reports so far...
Have you forgotten that you're trying to argue that this "dud" should be listed amongst Firpo's "high profile wins"?
The Milwaukee Journal also described how Wills used Firpo as a punching bag. https://pasteboard.co/JaUQcGM.png
And yet every contemporary report agrees that Wills won by a mile. 10 rounds to 0 with 2 even according to this detailed round-by-round....
Hilarious. Firpo didn't win a round against the ageing Wills but you're somehow trying to count that as a win because it was a no-decision bout....
Here's a few early references. The San Francisco Chronicle, 5th and 6th May 1898. Both suggest the bout happened in 1893....
Except Miteff was also ranked by the NBA https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SBS19610502.1.7&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1
According to the Boston Herald, Fitzsimmons was down and badly hurt in the third, but Choynski couldn't finish him and may have punched himself...
Ryan claimed that he had been carrying this hernia for a while, even during the Goss fight two years earlier. Supposedly he could cope with it as...
