Mickey Rourke claims he worked as a sparring partner for Duran and James Toney. I'd like to read some eye-witness reports on how that turned out.
The WBA stripped Ali of his title and banned Liston after it found that there was a mandatory rematch clause in the first fight's contract. Almost...
I agree that because of Ali's and Walcott's stupidity, we'll never know how the fight was supposed to have unfolded. I believe Liston intended to...
Boston turned down the rescheduled fight because it found that Inter-Continental Promotions was promoting the fight without a Massachusetts...
Any odds shift was almost impossible to track in the US in 1965. The only legal betting was in Nevada, which catered to the tourist trade. 99% of...
He also shied away from groups because he was afraid he would be asked to read or write something and he couldn't read or write. He was...
I think the first fight was on the level. Liston went into the fight with a bad left shoulder. He had tried to get the fight postponed and was...
This has nothing to do with what I wrote. I said if Ali had kept his mouth shut he would not have been inducted. His NOI lawyers told him to keep...
Two of my favorite fighters. I take Liston. Moore almost knocked Marciano out. Liston hit several times harder than Moore did. Rocky would have...
Ali was not the martyr he is being made out to be. During the Vietnam era, the US government granted Conscientious Objector status to thousands of...
I'm a Marciano fan, too. He's in my top 3. But he wasn't invincible and he was extremely lucky to have retired undefeated. When Charles split his...
You're may be right. I don't think Folley or Williams could have beaten a marginal Marciano. Neither were good enough..IMO. Machen may have been...
I think prime Liston beats any version of Marciano and Patterson loses.
What was a prime Patterson? His defenders keep saying he was better through the 1960s that when he was champion. That's when Ali beat him.
I agree. Unless Marciano was brought to the ring in a wheelchair, D'Amoto would not have let Patterson fight him.
