Marciano absolutely did not avoid the best opposition in his era. As a matter of fact, five of his six title defenses were against the RING...
Did you see Emmanuel Augustus' first fight with Courtney Burton? :pukke
One of the most asinine stoppages I've ever seen. That fight left a bad taste in my mouth. Calzaghe was just flailing and missing everything, had...
A poll on this forum a while back showed that something like 80% of the members had him in the top 10, and about half had him in the top 5. How,...
Perhaps he was simply jerking everyone around to see the response.
If Augustus were in shape, mentally focused and in top form, I believe he would have a live chance at upsetting Cotto, or anyone his weight, for...
I've seen a listing of 41 contemporary sportswriters' scorecards for this fight, in which 24 had it for Charles to 17 for Walcott, which is a...
I wouldn't rank Sanders' power with elite great punchers'. His only knockout over a heavyweight of serious merit was the Wlad Klitschko fight,...
True, but as has been pointed out in these forums in the past, McVea was in the mold of a Mike Tyson in this sense; he was built like a...
Charles was only 21 at the time, hadn't grown into himself fully; most of the subsequent fights you reference came after he went into the military...
This is good information to get out there. Not that I dislike Jeffries or have a poor assessment of him; as a matter of fact, Jeffries' standing...
Not all. For example, I know Harry Wills considered Johnson the greatest, and Jeffries himself said he didn't believe he could ever have beaten...
Well, there are certainly some unorthodox choices in there, and if you use the criteria I use, they look farly ridiculous, but with another set-...
Judging by the film, Lewis is pretty badly out of it when the fight is stopped; he lurches around unsteadily, he can't take two coordinated steps,...
It is true that Ali's eyes burned in the fourth round against Liston, to the extent that he was afraid to continue the fight before Dundee pushed...
