Louis best weight was about 205lb but when he destroyed Max Baer as a 19 year old he was only 197lbs. Baer could have had 5 arms that night and...
Jerry Quarry, Jimmy Ellis, Eddie Machen to name 3
I dropped a bo**ock not including Ezzard Charles koing a lively Bob Satterfield Drat, drat and double drat as Dick Dastardly used to say. I...
No, there definitely won't be a Heavyweight champion that young or light again.
Good luck to any fighter suing any boxing promoter. Ike Williams tried to get better rights for fighters (money) in the 40's and got blackballed...
On the other hand after age correction, experts have found out that Floyd Patterson was only 5 when he beat the 197 year old Archie Moore. Nat...
He supposedly dried out before fights to make his muscles stand out more!?!?!? He made Ken Norton look like a ripped up light heavy.
1940's 1) Sugar Ray Robinson 2) Ezzard Charles 3) Willie Pep 4) Sandy Saddler 5) Joe Louis 6) Archie Moore 7) Marcel Cerdan 8) Charley Burley 9)...
I've always thought Tommy Farr would cause Marciano some problems. If Marciano started head butting and punching low, the Welshman would oblige....
A motivated Tim Witherspoon would give any of the ATG heavies a tough night and George Foreman may struggle to open him up. David Tua is rock...
The 40's was the only decade I thought was easy and I was wrong. I had the same 4 you have plus Saddler, Ike Williams, Archie Moore, Charley...
Definitely. He didn't go through Moorer at all with that right. He was winging away with his left hook though, some landed, some didn't but Jud...
Ali came over here while he was in exile and was overwhelmed by the support. To his credit he never forgot.
My dad thought Ali was in the right on not going to Viernam. I couldn't believe it when he said that
My dad loved Joe Louis as they were from the same era and both vets. He'd claim Louis was the greatest thing to come over from the States during...
