Hey Red, how'd you score Hagler / Leonard? I had Hagler winning 10-2
Your ignoring the fact that Burley couldnt sell tickets to save his life, what was the benefit for Robinson to fight him? Its not like Burley...
SRR ko1 RJJ
People seem to forget Burley couldnt draw flies. Robinson would fight heavier fighter as likes of Lamotta and Levine due to the matchups being...
How biased an article that is. I remember when Monte Cox used to post here, he was an arrogant bore.
Just reading Allen Rosenfold's 'the life and hard time of an uncrowned champion'; whilst his fact finding and level of research is excellent; the...
The misnoma's spouted by some of the people here commenting on Robinson 'ducking' Burley is nonsensical. That obviously applies to the rest of...
Ali-Foreman
Ray Robinson was doing it in the 50's
Is that Jersey Joe, second from the left?
Yep, though they are prone to bias too.
Not so much after the fight, due to Watt going onto better things. But Watt has acknowledged that he hated the way Buchanan refused to...
Nonsense. How did the attendances of other Dempsey' contests in the '20's go. PS, That picture was New York, not Paris.
You've just wasted 5 minutes of your time there, mate. I wasnt referring to any particular person / author in this thread, moreso a format of...
I take your point about ND's era, where newspaper verdicts are often used (to back up an assertion of who 'won') and rightly so. Even though it...