That was perfectly legal, not dirty. That said, as Seamus points out, the sort of rabbit-punching/mauling/low-blowing tactics Dempsey employed...
1. Jones went undefeated in THREE FIGHTS against the three guys you mentioned. You're not addressing my point at all; Moore had NINE TOTAL FIGHTS...
His standards for the list are in the first post- he's not including guys who are still active and near the top or who were finished before 1900.
In addition to the valid reasons explained above, let it be further pointed out that there were just plain more boxers back then, and boxing as a...
I think a bigger difference would be that Frazier was 10 pounds heavier and heavily-declined since their first fight. I don't think either guy was...
I'm extremely confident that if Jones fought Harold Johnson and Jimmy Bivins five times apiece, he would lose at least once to each of them. In...
1. This is ridiculously biased- Moore scored ten knockouts in the 38 fights you list, but you've come up with excuses why six of them aren't...
True, and more power to them. But I don't think you can reasonably fault Monzon for sticking around and fighting the best in his own division.
Notice Monzon has a ton of draws in South America on his early record. It was the standard in much of South America at the time that pretty much...
Well, yes, I agree that Ali was sharper/trimmer against Foreman. I think he let himself go a bit after the Foreman fight, and consequently...
Most of them were old, but let me point out that LaStarza was actually four years younger than Marciano, and was 37-0 for their first encounter,...
This fight went 14 brutal rounds in, as you allude to, sweltering heat and humidity, and was an all-time compubox giant in terms of punches thrown...
Yes, noting again that Haynes was shot and Thomas was coming off a layoff- the Savold, Walcott and Charles fights were all of Ray's wins over...
I would agree that Nova, Baker, Layne, Renault and Satterfield are debatable inclusions (not ridiculous, but debatable), but Johnson definitely...
The Ali-Frazier fights were chronologically earlier, Ali was generally lighter and better-conditioned for them, and he was all-around more...
