R5 Q1: Was your boxer an Olympian?
Larry probably trains harder for either of them than he did Michael, whom I think he took lightly. But Holmes was also burned out, so who knows....
For me, it was Evander Holyfield vs Dwight Muhammad Qawi I in Atlanta. Fifteen rounds of non-stop punching between the rising Holyfield and the...
Great idea. I’m going to take you up on it and start that thread!
There would be a lot of pumping up the next Great White Hope at heavyweight. It was definitely a thing, culminating in Holmes-Cooney being the...
My memory could be off as I haven’t viewed it in a long time, but my recollection is Holyfield-Qawi I was non-stop punching for 15 rounds without...
“Roberto Duran ain’t fought nobody! He won his title on a low blow, he got dumped on his behind twice against Esteban DeJesus and the rest of his...
Ah, the golden days, when we would all sit around the telegraph office and listen to the round-by-round reports from Sullivan-Kilrain coming in...
I’m not sure I’d pick Wilder over ‘prime’ Sonny, but I’d darned sure give him a chance. I don’t think there’s a fighter he couldn’t knock out so...
Ricardo for me and by a fair margin. GGG (and Kovalev, a contemporary) were HBO budget projects when that network was winding down its boxing...
Haha, I thought @InMemoryofJakeLamotta was going to treat Ezz like a horse in a handicap race and make him wear a backpack with a couple of...
And boxed Ray’s ears off. NOBODY outboxes prime Leonard like that, but then again, nobody EVER outboxed Thomas Hearns.
Ray was a serial killer hidden behind that babyface smile. Emmanuel Steward later acknowledged that that one body blow that nearly broke Thomas...
I think you can make a great case for Alexis at super feather, the division you skipped, as being among the best ever … maybe even the best ever....
The reason Sominex is not available in Argentina is they had Monzon fights and didn’t need it. He put the judges asleep in nine of his fights to...
