He certainly wasn't "morbidly obese". Morbid obesity is a life-threatening condition, it's not just being kinda fat.
As I understand it, Marciano tried facing backward in some of his early fights, but it didn't really work.
That's not really true - Valdes only fought in Europe a couple of times and a rematch with Charles was never on the cards. There was no...
The WBA originally refused to sanction this fight as Roman wasn't in their top 10. But then Foreman announced that he was going to go ahead and...
There's an account of it here: https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nYxLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DiQNAAAAIBAJ&pg=7142,3126706 Obviously it's just an...
Oh, at some point, probably, but at the time they fought Charles, Brion had dropped out of the top 10 while Valdes only earned a rating with his...
It was a tough run, but a little exaggerated. It took him more like a year and a half to rack up 14 bouts and the majority of the opponents...
I don't know where you got the idea Nino Valdes was based in Miami. He'd never even fought in Miami until his win over Charles (which was a...
Thanks for that - nice to finally see a first-hand account of that second fight.
I've already shown that Erskine wasn't. Here's the link again:...
I think we've already established that's not true because neither Cooper nor Erskine were in the top ten when Johansson beat them.
Ah, you caught me! I forgot London was never actually European champion and was too slow to correct myself. Anyway, the correct figures for...
Erskine wasn't ranked. As this report from just before the Johansson fight says, "Erskine has no ranking but Johansson is No.7 with the NBA and...
Liston victim Mike deJohn was also ranked when Liston became champion. Also, your method of ignoring Liston's victory over Machen doesn't work....
Just to make sure I have this right: The rule is that it doesn't matter what an opponent's rating was when Johansson fought him? What's...
