I must disagree. At the time of these fights Valdez had already declined with losses to Baker and an absolute trashing by Satterfield. I think...
Well, outside of Harris I never argued these men as good fighters or outstanding contenders, so I'm not sure why you lashed out at me like that....
Who are you talking about?
Padded record? All these guy's records were padded with the same guys. From 55-58 Machen beat Valdez, Maxim, Baker, Holman, Jackson....
He certainly didn't do a good job of avoiding big hitters. He fought Ingo and Liston 5 times. Throw in Moore. That's 6 fights against all time...
He wasn't injured and had not ****ed a bunch of fans off that you need to fill a stadium for starters. You really think Patterson was scared of...
Patterson was the champ, so Machen would have been the #1 contender, depends onbow you look at it.
Machen and Folley were the #1 and #2 when they fought. Harris had just beat #3 Pastrano.
Because this was written after the fight. "His two top contenders Eddie Machen and Zora Folley disqualified themselves' with a static...
I meant Bethea but same difference. Well, in 57 Williams was just a few months into a comeback after a two year absence from the sport....
No, he should not. Rademacher-A publicity stunt fought less than a month after Patterson destroyed his #1 contender, Tommy Jackson....
The same things Wlad does to spoil anybody shorter than him, regardless of their skill set, speed, talent..etc. It would be the same as...
I agree completely. Povetkin /Perez on the undercard of that could have been a real winner.
Murray fight. Golovkin just beats them until the ref stops them from getting killed in teh ring.
Toney couldn't even beat Griffin at LHW, what the hell is he going to do with Archie Moore. Moore beats him up with accurate power shots in...
